General News & Information - Southwest Nordic Ski Club

Conditions/Grooming 12/29/2023

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.

Groomer having to pull double-duty – hauling fresh fuel in addition to cleaning up the trails

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!

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/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/

Conditions Report from Wednesday Evening 12/6/2023

Things have deteriorated quite a bit from the weekend with the “heat wave” weather we’re experiencing. With only a couple of modest storms covering the ground, there just wasn’t much snow to start with. The warm temps in the 40s warms up the ground and melts things from above and below. So, expect soft, wet conditions during the day, and ice by mid-afternoon and night. There are also numerous exposed rocks, sticks, and grass, so be SUPER careful. There will be completely exposed spots within a couple of days, most likely.

We did get our group of juniors all the way to the top of the meadow and I think they learned how to get over their kick zones much more emphatically 😉