After 2 days of cleanup, the trails are skiable again. Yesterday, I cleared another dozen fallen trees, and groomed the central portion of the network.
The 2-day blizzard produced a lot of wind, but not much snow. The snow we did receive (about 10 cm total) is distributed very unevenly. There are deep drifts in some places, but there are many places where the new snow is all blown away, and only the old crusty snow from before the storm remains.
On trails I groomed yesterday, skiing is not bad, generally. I will do more grooming today. There is still a lot of debris scattered over the trails - small twigs, pine and spruce needles, etc.
Finally, it looks like we will only have a couple of days to enjoy these skiable conditions; starting on Wednesday, there is a period of warm weather coming in, which will probably destroy our thin snow base.
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| Yesterday, North Plateau, Before |
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| Yesterday, North Plateau, After |
Update 11 a.m. - All trails have now been groomed, either this morning or yesterday. There is some drifting on the open fields. Lots of little sticks to watch out for!
Dave, thank you, it was hard hard work cleaning all the trees. We enjoyed a great time on trails yesterday.
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