We received about 15 cm of new snow yesterday and overnight. As the snow was coming down, at a temperature near the freezing mark, it was a bit moist and packing. But as it cooled off to -5 overnight, the snow has dried out and is now a very nice powder.
I will be grooming first thing this morning with the roller comb. I expect it will result in fairly good ski conditions. There are a couple of concerns this morning: there are a couple of places where the new snow fell on areas that were covered with partially frozen ponded water. I'm not sure what the result will be in those areas. Second, the wind is fairly strong this morning, so there will probably be some drifting in open field areas.
The predicted high temperature for today is 0, so it's possible that the snow will become a bit sticky later in the day. Fortunately, it's not expected to reach 0 until about 4 p.m.
10:30 a.m. Update: I've just come in from grooming. The result was not as good as I had hoped. There are many locations where there is hard, lumpy ice not far below the surface. There are also 2 very wet spots on trail #5. I did not groom the entire network, since there were several locations where there was glare ice under the snow, and the ATV could not get enough grip to climb the hills. The trails that were not groomed are #1a, part of North Plateau, part of #17, a portion of Mainline from the north junction of Hockleycrest to North Plateau, and the portion of Hockleycrest from #12 to #17.
Only very good skiers should try skiing today.
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