Trails have been rolled and packed as of today. A big thanks to Chris Michel (CM Arbor Care) for taking on that whole task after the big storm. It's quite an endeavor to break trail, then roll, then pack/groom. He had a bit of an issue at the end of his session yesterday - he started in the early morning with the roller (which is made of black polyethylene) as the morning turned into a sunny day. The lower part of the system is sun-exposed and the roller gets warmed up, creating ice that makes the new snow stick to it. It "balled-up" and began to drag the snow in the trail, not roll over it. He had to park it for the day, but he heroically went back up last night to finish the job!
Logan Ott got out on Friday to groom things for the clinics and the weekend. A huge thanks to him as well! It's a hard ask to get folks to give up a Friday night, be out in the cold and dark and hard work environment, to get things in shape. But, these are great volunteers with big hearts.
We'll go up tonight to get things fully groomed, probably just in time for another round of snow, but at least it'll be more firm under there.
We took a good group of SWNSC kids (about 10 kids!) to the Durango season series race #2 (Coke race series). They were all so awesome and had a great time and experience. We'll be taking them to the big JNQ (Junior National Qualifier) there in mid-February, so they got a good recon of the courses they'll be racing on for the big event. It was a lot of driving on wintry roads, but we'll take it!
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