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.

Drilling in the field at the fairgrounds.

Coleman Engineering will be operating a drilling unit along the fence
line but in the field, just north of the fairgrounds.  They're doing soil
samples for a pole-line moving project slated for this summer.    This
should only take a few days but everyone needs to keep away from their
machinery while they're out there.   Thanks!   

Just a file photo, not their unit.

Glide-N-Gorge!

Just a reminder that the Glide-N-Gorge ski-n-eat fund raiser will be this weekend.  Tickets are available at Down Wind Sports in Houghton and Cross Country Sports in Calumet.  They are just $20
until Friday, Feb 27.  Tickets will also be available at the chalet the day of
for $25.  If you are unable to make it to one of these two ski shops,
you can have a $20 ticket held for you at the chalet by contacting Candi
at 281-5294 or cjsilvola@chartermi.net.  Make sure you come out for this
fun afternoon of great food, music and support the trails!! 
Hope we see you on Sunday, March 1st!

Cooling down from Excellent.

Today most trails were drug, tracks reset and made Excellent again.
 This afternoon the wind picked up and was blowing them back in. :-(
 See below for a Mud Lake (trail #4) report.
Because of the cool temps we'll not be grooming on Wednesday.
 Normal operations will resume on Thursday.  

This is how nice they looked this morning.

The sun came out which helped my photography skills :-)..

Hope everyone was able to ski before the wind picked up.

 

 


Then in the afternoon we drug this fresh snow in on Mud lake trail #4.

It did smooth them up very nicely.

But new slash was pulled up as well.  Much of it was thrown off the trail.

Hopefully more snow will arrive and we'll roll it again.

Warming into excellent.

We got Churning Rapids and the trails that lead out there drug today, then reset tracks everywhere. The wind was still blowing the snow around some but hopefully they'll remain excellent. Photos show what we did.
Today one of our tow machines quit and was moved into the repair shop.  Hopefully you'll not notice any difference and we get it back ASAP.

Oh ya!

In the dam meadow.

   

In our favorite gorge.

This is what we strive to create.

Saturday's skier report.

Trails, creek and people as seen out there Saturday afternoon.

We headed upstream along the creek from Tomasi RD.

The Aitamaa's from Stevens Point.

They love the trail's like we do.

We checked the growing snow mushrooms out.

This tree has been coming down this winter
and the Rhino might not fit under it anymore.

We bumped into Chris!

Plus we seen many, many other people out here today.