Maasto groomed Sunday morning, March 8

As of 11 am, the city side (Maasto portions) have been drug and new tracks have been set. Tracks on the Churning Rapids trails will be re-set tomorrow morning.  Snow conditions are perfect, so use or buy your ski pass and enjoy the trails.

Saturday, March 7, 2015 Brief Conditions report

Maasto-Churning Rapids are in excellent condition with about an inch of light, fluffy new snow over the groomed trails.  Tracks are set and the popular trails are well used. Some open areas have wind blown snow partially covering the trail for short sections, but all trails have great skiing conditions.

Good skiing up Swedetown Creek above Tomassi road.  Enjoy!

Thursday back in black.

After the terrible wind we received yesterday,  Sam was out this morning and drug the drifts and fresh snow we got, flat again.  Photos say it all. 

Everything is again Excellent.

On the RR grade in town.

In the sand pit.

As seen in Churning Rapids.

Glide N Gorge, Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club, Maasto Hiihto, 2015

Here is a great video made by Sarah Eles while doing the GNG.  Thanks Sarah!

GNG come and gone!

The 7th annual Glide-n -Gorge was Sunday.
Folks who were not able to make it, missed a good one!
Our trail supporters donated about $1500 at this year's Glide. Proceeds will go towards replacing our aged Rhino UTV which is once again in the shop for expensive repairs. Each season our largest revenue source - memberships - falls thousands of dollars short of our operating expenses.  We could not keep the trails open without additional fundraising. Next year, be sure all your friends come to the Glide too!

Folks are rolling in and purchasing tickets from Sandy.

Looks like we'll have a crowd here today.

Out on the trail.

Dogs being grilled and served at the 1st stop.

Looks like fun!

Kids on the route.

Folks are chatting at the soup station.

Participants are now gliding back to the chalet

Live music!

Globes of ice are quite interesting.

We had so much fun.

Tuesday's refreshing report.

We headed out late this morning  in hopes of getting done close to when this snow would be over.   On all trails this fresh snow was drug in and tracks reset.   When done, they looked quite good and are again excellent.

With the fresh snow mixed in, they got quite pretty.

You can't see this in these photos but it was snowing pretty good out!

Photos taken at the G-N-G will be posted shortly.

school yard tracks

KNSC with the help from the City of Hancock grooms the Hancock grade school yard which allows their PE class to have skiing.  

This is how the tracks looked after I refreshed them today.

 

Here are some student's skiing in photos I took a while ago at the school yard.

 

People should know that Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club is working to help the younger generation into skiing and hopefully more healthy.