Grooming Report for 2023/02/06

Classic Track: No

We’re still in business. That little heat wave did transition the snow on the lower sun-exposed portions of the trails (the fire affected areas), but it’s all still nicely covered. The front hill, as usual, is the least good section, but only in a short section. The farther out on the system, the better the snow is. The meadow trails are still perfect.

Tonight, I ran the groomer on everything several times to grind up the icy stuff and buff out all the weekend traffic that occurred during the warmest part of the day and left holes and/or skate indentations. It was quickly freezing up rock-hard as temperatures dropped, so each pass was different from the previous one(s). The grooming really softened up the snow, so it’s safe and nice again.

Because there was a lot to be done to grind up the trails, I didn’t reset the classic track (sorry about that). I’ll plan on doing that tomorrow evening. So, skating is the best option tomorrow, classic for Wednesday. It was supposed to snow a little tonight too, but that doesn’t look likely now. It did however, get cold again, so conditions should hold into the weekend.

Enjoy!

Chuck Calef Classic this Sat Jan 28th on our trails!

Hi all!

We have a ski event celebrating our long time friend, club supporter/volunteer and an avid classic skier Chuck Calef this Sat Jan 28th:

The Chuck Calef Classic!

The trail will be groomed with best line classic tracks making it even more fun to classic (but really not fun to skate, so please save the skating for another day)! In classic Chuck style, wear your best nordic sweater, a big kind smile and if you got one a big bushy beard! The event is free to all.

The course will be an approximately 8 km loop on our trails and we will send skiers off 1 min apart with first skier off at 9:30 am from point B. Please plan to be at point B to get your name on the order list no later than 9:15 am and plan accordingly to be able to have your skis ready, warm up and arrive at point B by 9:15 am.

See trail map here to make sure you know where point B is.

Soldier Hollow Super Qualifier

Go Southwest Nordic Ski Club! The kids had some great races here at the Soldier Hollow Super Qualifier (Midway, UT). There were huge fields, resulting in some equally daunting nerves to overcome. That was our main reason to travel so far for two days of racing — time to face reality. It went really well and I think a lot was learned. Poor Quanah just missed a podium in a tight finish. Check out Mila’s U16 (girls 14-15 yrs old) field! She really had to sink or swim quickly!

Ski Clinic Update

We had some dedicated kids, parents and adults come out for the clinics in the Sunday snow storm (and some valiantly tried driving without and then with chains before giving up with a car full of our awesome little skiers)! I didn’t get a lot of photos but it was a lot of fun with even a one-ski soccer game at the end! Huge thanks to coach Kyle for his help with everything!

Definitely good winter tires needed and ideally 4WD for coming up there this week, although FWD worked well as long as you had good winter tires from what we saw.