Conditions remain good on our trails, and the temperature will be a bit warmer today (but still below freezing). We had a strong SW wind yesterday, so there was a lot of blowing, drifting snow. We also had a large group of hikers go through, which messed up the grooming on some of the trails.
I will refresh the grooming in the worst spots this morning.
There is some warm, wet weather moving in tomorrow, which will probably have an adverse effect on our skiing conditions. Today may be the last of our powder snow conditions for a while.
10:00 a.m. Update: Badly drifted trails throughout the network have been groomed. Thankfully, there is no wind today. Skiing is very good.
Thanks for your comments. I'm glad your group enjoyed your snowshoeing experience. The Hockleycrest trails were created primarily for XC skiing. An additional snowshoe trail, Peter's Path, was created mainly so that snowshoers would stay off the ski trails. There are no numbered trails for snowshoeing. When you are walking or snowshoeing, you are limited to the main Bruce Trail (white rectangular blazes), BT side trails (blue rectangular blazes) and supplementary trails marked with orange ribbons. Ski-only trails are mostly marked with signs saying so. I did see a few spots yesterday where snowshoers had been on a ski-only trail. Don't know if it was your group. At least they were considerate enough to keep to the edge and not trample the groomed track, but they should not have been there at all.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the reply. It like was my group - we did our best not to disturb the grooming and tracks that were made. We did get turned around a couple of times trying to stay on the orange flagged trails. There is very little out there regarding snowshoe trails and so I might suggest in the description for your property to outline what you said above about staying on the BR trail and following the trail markers as well as the orange flags when you get to them, and on the Peter's Path. It would be very useful for any future snowshoers to know this to stay the course. The only information I found was that your property has 8kms of trail for snowshoeing. I can try and create a detailed map for snowshoeing to post if you would like? I will see what I can come up with and send it to you.
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