Dang...again, apologies for the long delays in updating the news blog. We suffered a mysterious mechanical on one of the machines and it took a big effort to go rescue it and get it repaired. Too many things to do with so little time...
Anyway, woohoo for the new snow, ~13" of wet stuff that quickly got saturated in the next day's sun and compressed to a firm 7" or so. That really saved us and things are not so bad out beyond Point-B or so on the trails. Parts of the lower Guaje Trail (aka "Lower Road") are still a little thin, but mostly all good after lots of packing and grooming. The lower meadow below Point-N on the system index is still bumpy from the huge grass clumps, but if skied carefully, is quite passable now.
The front hill is still super thin and has rocks all through that middle steep, narrow section. Use EXTREME caution through there and don't even think about snow plowing in that section unless you really do not care about your ski bases. You will hit rocks. We always tell people to twist your poles around 180-degrees so that the ski baskets are in the "up" position. You can carefully "walk" yourself down with your arms/poles until you're through that bad section. Or, do the prudent thing and take your skis off to walk (stay on the high side, not in the middle) around it. At any rate, it's short and you can ski just about everything right now.
We rolled everything twice, then pulled the smaller groomer through. We need one more good storm to pull out our fancy, big "Tidd" groomer with the tiller and leveler. There's just not quite enough to do that just yet. Perhaps after the weekend.
The plan is to get a classic track set tonight on the parts of the system that allows it right now...the upper tree trails mainly. There should be good skiing this weekend.
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| Rolling with the compaction device down |
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| The new snow groomed out nicely |
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