Everything was refreshed last evening. Cool temps are helping the conditions stay pretty good. New classic track was set throughout, including on Camp May Rd practice area.
Conditions/Grooming 12/29/2023
Month: December 2023
Classic Ski Clinic
Saturday, December 30, 9:30 – 11:00
1) Beginner and Intermediate instruction for up to 12 participants with 2 instructors. Please send email to SWNSKIboard@gmail.com to reserve your spot – first come first served!
2) Skiing style for this clinic is CLASSIC (not skate skiing, see bottom here for rental info). If you are not sure which skis you have or which style is which, please contact us to get clarification to make sure you attend the correct clinic.
3) FREE to current club members.
To join or donate to the club: Support the Southwest Nordic Ski Club!
4) Geared toward adults, but will work for older kids who are up for learning in a group of adults (guessing ages 12 and up might work depending on the kids – contact the page with questions).
GEAR RENTAL INFO: The only rentals in our area are the Santa Fe Cottam’s Ski Shop, they are located at 740 Hyde Park Rd which is about half way from Santa Fe to the Santa Fe Ski area. They do NOT rent XC gear online, they ask that to rent XC skis you go into their shop and since they charge by the day ($29.95) they recommend coming in Friday after 3 pm to get your gear for Sat morning clinic and then bringing it back Sat afternoon after your clinic/skiing if you only plan to rent for 1 day. Their direct number is 505-982-0495. They only rent CLASSIC gear (no skate).
Grooming Report for 2023/12/27
Classic Track: No
The main trails and the meadows were groomed. It was windy, and drifting was occurring while grooming.
12/26/2023 Grooming & Conditions Report
We’ve had a couple of issues with our grooming machines and low volunteer availability for grooming, so it’s been a little hit and miss with getting on top of things. After a couple of days working on our Viking snowmobile, it was usable enough to get in a good number of laps focused on widening, tilling, and leveling the trails so they’re not so narrow, uneven and side-sloped. The outer meadow was also groomed out, but it was windy, so there will be a lot of windblown drift by tomorrow.
While the trails will be cleaned up from all the holiday traffic, they still need some more work. There’s no classic track and even the skate lane needs more conditioning. Hopefully, we’ll get more passes on them by the weekend.
Sorry for the slow grooming response – we just don’t have much volunteer coverage right now. At least the snow and weather are both good!
Grooming Report for 2023/12/23
Classic Track: No
Travis and I groomed the whole trail system including the wide loop in the meadow. It was snowing pretty hard with fairly high winds towards the top the whole time. There was a good amount of accumulation already with temperatures slightly below freezing.
Conditions should be really good tomorrow making for proper Christmas skiing!
51st Chama Chile Ski Classic
The 51st (!!!) Chama Chile Ski Classic is ON for Saturday Jan 13th! There are classic and snowshoe events (no freestyle this year).
Please support this fun and historic event by volunteering or participating! A registration could be a neat experience gift for someone on your list!
Race website is here: https://chamachileskiclassic.com/
Race registration and race list is here (open now!!):
https://runsignup.com/Race/NM/Chama/ChamaChileSkiClassic
Grooming Report for 2023/12/17
Classic track: Yes
We groomed the trails this evening. They had been skied thoroughly this weekend— good job everyone! Both classic and skate are set.
Kevin
Grooming Report for 2023/12/13
Classic Track: Yes
This past storm is just what we needed for the ski trails. Pajarito reported 15″ and this evening we groomed in close to 1 ft of new snow. The snow was very wet and all of the trees are covered. It’s a winter wonderland up there! Here are conditions before we groomed this evening
We have full coverage and the trails are groomed for both skate and classic. Should be a superb weekend for skiing!!
Kevin
GROOMING/CONDITIONS REPORT- SATURDAY EVENING 12/9/2023
Conditions weren’t so great this morning, but things were groomed this afternoon and it snowed about 1/2″. There were a lot of dogs and hikers not adhering to the signs, and they made a mess to the point of causing damage and degradation of the conditions. It was not easy to groom that out with so little snow.
Anyway, things were regroomed and where the snow is still covering the trail well, there’s still some good skiing. It’s not so great from the trailhead to about Point-C. Lower Road is a mixed bag, but it was also groomed.
Be super careful and use rock skis.
-Clay
Weekend Ski Planning…?
There are plans for a “best we can do” regrooming of the system. The warm weather this week definitely hit the conditions hard, but there’s still skiable conditions. It’ll definitely be rock-ski conditions, so keep that in mind. You may have to bridge over a bare spot here and there, or ski over grass sticking through. It is snowing a little up at Pajarito right now. You can now see the weather again since they got their webcam up and running.
https://www.pajarito.ski/weather-conditions-webcams/webcams/