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Temperatures are headed into the meltdown range this week. As such, please consider not skiing, and especially snowshoeing, during the warm time of the day. It’s quite detrimental to the conditions.

It was a busy holiday weekend. Most of the trails were cleaned up but it’s a variable mix of conditions and not everywhere has a classic track.

Conditions are dependent on the grooming. Freeze-thaw weather and grooming frequency is like a jar of mayonnaise sitting out on the kitchen counter. If you don’t do something about it in a couple of days, it goes bad pretty fast. Hopefully we still have some base after this hot spell.

So, please refrain from using the trails as much as possible, especially while it’s warm. Looks like a weather change is in store next week…

Got things groomed nicely Friday night with a lot of passes with the groomers. Went back out Saturday evening to clean the lower Guaje Trail and to get a better classic track on the lower trails, below Point-J. It should ski very nicely for classic. Today was pretty interesting with that cold foggy air mass rolling in. It was noticeably colder at the bottom of the system than out in the meadow near the high point.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Trails have been groomed extensively during this past week, after the great round of storms of last week, which totaled 18 to 20 inches. Days are warming up with the southwest winds and flow from the south, but hopefully temps moderate in the 40s, which is not too bad. It’s supposed to cool off over Friday and Saturday, but maybe warm again early next week.

As of this morning, things looked great, but will start changing with the freeze/thaw cycle.

Please choose colder hours to ski or snowshoe to preserve the trail conditions. Skiing, and especially snowshoeing in the middle of the day causes some ruts and etc. that refreeze and are hard to groom out.

Lots of new snow, but also lots of wind. Battling the drifts has taken up most of the grooming effort, but things are now pretty well set for classic skiing, with a new track set throughout. The upper/outer meadow loop has been re-established with a fresh track as well. Lots of drifts still exist on the inner meadow trail from Point-M, down to Point-O (the lower road trail). Classic will be the best bet until the weekend. We do hope to have more grooming/smoothing passes done by then to even things out and make it firm and smooth. It just takes a lot of grooming work to get that done. The snow depth is very good now, though, so we’re very happy about that!!! Go ski classic! It will be good with skin skis in the middle part of the day, and kick wax in the morning and evening.

Lots of new snow, lots…

We’re packing and planning on grooming tonight for a wonderful weekend of beautiful New Mexico cross country skiing. Should be especially great for those new classic skis you got for Christmas, along with all that Swix “Extra Blue” kick wax. Conditions like this are what we all live for! 😉👌

Happy New Year!

Trails were completely groomed, including setting fresh classic track. Snow is holding up, but needs to be groomed about every other day or so to stay in good shape. 

Classic track should be pretty nice for a couple of days. 

Enjoy!

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.

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!