Best Conditions of the Season… on March 25???

Woohoo for all of this new snow. It has really snowed a lot up on the xc ski trails and Pajarito Mountain these past few days, and it’s currently still snowing (Friday). We had a new grooming volunteer go finish the job that Logan started with rolling the big storm Tuesday/Wednesday, and he reported that it was snowing pretty hard the whole time he was out there, and it’s snowing again this morning. It should be pretty awesome out there right about now, and even over the weekend. Go up and ski again if you can!

Pajarito webcam shot around 10am, March 25, 2021

Slip Sliding Away

The March Meltdown is about to commence. We groomed that quick-hitting, wind blown 2″ from yesterday’s squall, and will hit it again tonight for the weekend, but after this, the dreaded SW H5 high-pressure dome is set to cook our snowpack for 2 or 3 days until there’s a possibility of a storm next week to stop the damage. By then, I’m sure we’ll have a number of bare patches to ford around the trails…enough to stop grooming we think. There may still be some good skiing out in the upper meadow, so we’ll have to assess that. We’ll likely keep the bottom, Camp May Rd practice area groomed a bit longer for some afternoon laps. It was certainly nice this week. It’s kind of a bummer, since we had such good conditions up until now with a less-than-optimal snow pack.

SWNSC Kids continue to practice until there ain’t a patch of snow left!