Rolled the ski trail

The Forest City ski trail was rolled this evening.  It looks like we received 5 to 6" during the last two days!  I will plan on doing the finish grooming tomorrow morning. 

The roller was used first today because it does a better job of initially packing this light deep snow without pushing snow off the trail.  Letting it set up overnight will produce a more firm snow base to use the Ginzu groomer on tomorrow.  And this results in a better packing of the snow since it will have been gone over twice.  The goal is to have a complete ski trail ready to ski on by the afternoon of New Year's day! 

Groomed the Lodge

The Lodge has been groomed for skating this afternoon.  I skated it tonight and it has good coverage.  I just got back from travelling and was disappointed on how much snow we lost since Christmas!  It looks like we will get some more snow tomorrow though.  Hopefully we'll have some more groomed trails by New Years day.

The Lodge.

The Lodge has just been groomed for skating, still no classic track there yet. Enjoy! ....and Merry Christmas!

Pilot Knob Lake groomed

The lake at Pilot Knob has been groomed for both skating & classic style skiing this morning.  I would guess we received about 2" of fresh snow last night. 

I did see a flash of light in the sky?  I'm going to assume it was just the lights from the airport 5 miles away.

Merry Christmas!!

Pilot Knob Lake is in very good shape

Just finished grooming the lake at Pilot Knob State Park.  Both the skating lane and classic tracks look to be in very good condition!  The Ginzu groomer was able to rejuvenate the skating lane very well and the snowmover was working great to make some nice looking tracks.  Enjoy!

Using the snowmover to lay classic tracks on the last pass

 

A little bit of hoarfrost in the trees.

 

 

First Classic Tracks

The lake at Pilot Knob State Park was rolled and tracked Saturday afternoon.  The classic tracks look to be in fair shape but did go down to the ice in a few spots.  Use the inside set of tracks.  The outside tracks were an experiment with the snowmover and did not work well.  The skating lane should be ok.  This loop is 1.5km. And no hills!

Decent skating

Just finished some night skiing (skating) on the course tonight and was pleasantly surprised!  The snow firmed up very nicely.  While it is a very thin base it still makes for some great skating.  Use old skis if you can.

 And it's nice to have all of the Christmas lights on this time of year.  There are no tracks for classic skiing yet because of low snow conditions.