Author: kblakeyshell

I was very pleased to see lots of people using the trails this weekend. Spread the word because the more the merrier! We ran the ginzu once around all the loops last night to smooth things out from the traffic this weekend. We also trackset the north loop. Hopefully the trails won’t see much use…

Let me start by saying that I don’t plan to do a posting every time I do anything as “significant” as fart at the trail park. Sorry for a bunch of posts in the last 36 hours but I am a little stoked right now.  Yesterday was the first good skiing possible at the park.…

Parking lot is plowed and the trails are groomed. Time to ski!!! Went out with the ginzu this morning to smooth out the skate lane and try to put down some classic track (Andy, you can’t say I don’t do anything for you:)). The skate lane is in great shape. There are still some “hairy”…

The park had about 6″ of nice dense snow this evening. it was wonderful to see a couple more inches than in town. It compacted down to at least 1.5″ which is more than we have had at any other point out there this year. Hopefully mother will keep this up and provide another inch…

This morning I headed out to the trails for a quick pre-work ski. The good news is that it was skiable but the bad news is that there are still some spots out there that are pretty thin. With rock skis it is ready to go. With nice skis you are going to need to…

We got 2-3″ more inches of snow in the last 24 hours so I went out with the roller again tonight to pack in the new snow. All in all, things are looking pretty good considering how much (little?) snow we have gotten. The above picture was after 2 passes over the trails. I did…

I made a trip to the park last night to check out the condition. Was really hoping that there was more snow on the ground than there was by the Big Lake. Luckily there was more but the soggy ground was melting a lot of the snow so there was only about 1″ of snow…

While we did have almost skiable trail on Christmas Eve, most of it all melted in the last few days. Luckily some of the base did stick around but we still need about 6″ of snow before it will compact down enough to have good skiing. Here is a picture from late Tuesday before the…

Merry Christmas! We finally got some snow!! There was about 4″ of fairly dense snow out at the park this morning with an icy layer from the previous days right on top of the soil. The whole time we have been building this trail system I have wondered  how it was going to be to…

This weekend with a lot of help from people we were able to get in most of the “infrastructure” needs for this winter’s trail use. Below is Bob our master gate builder installing one of his creations. He built and donated three of these 12′ metal gates for use by the parking lot. These will…