Category: Grooming & Conditions Update

Classic Track: Yes

Trails were groomed and classic track was set. It had been above freezing for a long period of time, making them soft and not structurally very strong on the surface. While it was freezing up while I was out there, there are a few places where the machine tracks left somewhat of a rut, mainly where wind caused drifts over the past two weeks. More grooming traffic and settling will alleviate that.

There’s still a good snow pack, but it’s definitely spring skiing now with these warm days and less cold nights. The meadow trails had good cold snow and will ski the best. Parts of the tree trails were also still cold dry snow, but there are parts that have transformed into slushy corn snow.

We have probably two weeks of grooming/skiing left if we don’t receive any more snow. Conditions should be good tomorrow through the weekend.

Enjoy!

Classic Track: Yes

I groomed this morning (Sunday), 2 laps around the network chewed up Fridays Classic track (it was icy and tore up) and reset throughout. Conditions are fantastic, the breeze helped keep the snow cold.

Tom

Classic Track: Yes

I groomed this evening with two full laps of the main trails and four laps in the meadow. I reset the classic track.

Classic Track: Yes

Did three more laps on the entire network this morning fixing error spots, and resetting classic track in areas.

Classic Track: Yes

Everything is nicely groomed. Tomorrow morning’s corduroy will be nice.

Classic Track: No

Tom and Travis groomed all trails including the meadow loop. There is a lot of fresh snow and the trails look great right now!

Classic Track: No

Nick and I had an adventurous grooming session this evening. The snow was surprisingly deep, probably 10 inches, with much deeper drifts in sections. We got stuck in three places on the lower end of the meadow and had to work our way out.

There were two trees down; one between Dave’s and TJ’s, and another on the switchback above point J. I tried to use minimal chainsaw cuts on the trees to avoid sawdust on the trails, so we may need to do a bit more pushing on the logs to get them fully off the trail when we have an extra set of hands.

In the end, we did three passes on the lower road out to the top of the meadow (no passes on the big meadow loop), and one pass on the upper trails.

Classic Track: Yes

The trails are still in great shape. Zach and I refreshed the skate lane and reset the classic track in some sections (In some sections we left Kevin’s track from yesterday). We also set up the target area for the bb gun biathlon event tomorrow.

Enjoy some spectacular New Mexico skiing tomorrow!

Classic Track: Yes

Trails are in great shape. A combination of the new snow we received Monday evening and cooler temperatures this week helped keep the snow in good condition. We refreshed the trails this evening so it should be great skiing this weekend. We reset the classic track and freshened up the skate lane. We were able to groom in some of the soft snow which had drifted in from the storm earlier this week and it made for some smooth corduroy.

Enjoy!

Kevin

Classic Track: Yes

The predicted snow actually materialized. There was a decent amount, so the trails needed to be groomed again so it won’t blow and drift, and get scraped off from ski traffic.

Classic tracks were set, so it’ll be the best bet tomorrow.

Beware of a pretty ugly bad spot on Dave’s Dogleg where the edge of the trail collapsed under the machine’s tracks and I got terribly stuck. I tried to clean it up, but it’s a mess. Sorry about that. I’m just happy to be alive.

New snow = good skiing. 👍