February 21

 Day 65 of skiing this season.

Skiing will be good again today, but not quite as good as yesterday. The trails were very busy yesterday, with both skiers and hikers. So, the more popular trails are trampled and starting to get hard packed. The bigger hills are getting scraped off from people snowplowing. In addition, we have come to that time of the season when the sun is getting much stronger, so that even if the air temperature is -4, you may begin to see some melting snow in sunny areas, especially south-facing slopes. By late afternoon yesterday, the tracks were getting noticeably glazed.

I will be out on the groomer starting about 8 a.m. trying to clean things up as best I can.

10:30 a.m. Update: most trails in the south and north areas have been touched up with the roller/comb. Central trails that are track-set were mostly left as-is; only a couple of these were re-set.

Hill leading to the viewpoint on North Plateau, after grooming

The Pasture after one pass of the roller/comb (I made a second pass after taking the photo)