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.
Hello and THANK YOU! Our group of 4 went snowshoeing today through the amazing property! Thank you for all you do to create such a wonderful and vast experience for skiers, hikers, and snowshoers. We had a wonderful time. We did run into some confusion as to what trails we should stay on as we did not want to disrupt the grooming you have created for the skiers. Once we were up around the Maple Sugar lines and found the orange trails we did great - the back property (along Airport Road) was definitely blown over and we likely created our own version of the trail - but that was fine by us! Is there specific trail numbers for the snowshoeing/hiking side? It says there is 8km on the description of Hockelycrest - so if we come back we want to ensure we stay on track (For the most part we were on trail 3 I believe - particularly on the way back from the top of the loop). We all had a fantastic time out there - and again thank you for all the time and effort you put in to allow us to explore this beautiful piece of the Bruce Trail.
ReplyDeleteThanks 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.
DeleteThank 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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