December28th Grooming Report
Great Race Day!
According to the race results page, 106 skiers showed up at Trail Creek for a great day of classic racing on Monday in the 2022 Betty Woolsey Classic Race. Thanks to the racers for making the effort, the fans who cheered them on, and the helpers that did all the grunt work to put on a great Nordic race!
After yesterday's rain and snow, the weather has straightened itself out today with cooler temps and steady light snowfall. In fact looking ahead at the forecast, it looks like these Nordic friendly conditions will continue through the rest of the week and year.
Today’s grooming is pretty much the 10 K Pisten Bully loop of the Betty Woolsey course with a few small changes to make things ski a little better for recreational skiers. In addition to the Pisten Bully, the roller was also utilized on the same loop to widen the Pisten Bully's footprint.
Cle’s Climb and Faceplant are back and Homesite is being groomed in a continuous sweep. In addition to this loop, the roller was working hard grooming the remaining field trails. The new Gill Huff loop was not groomed today as the warm temps might have resulted in the Pisten Bully crashing through the snow bridge into the creek, not a good thing! If you make it out for a ski today, while there might be a bit of fresh snow on your trail, all in all the skiing should be great!
A note on grooming equipment; we have been authorized to continue utilizing Valley Landscape Service’s Pisten Bully until we receive a loaner cat. We anticipate receiving a loaner cat in the very near future. As to our Husky, Prinoth was able to expedite things and a new engine was shipped from Italy to Quebec where it will/has go/gone through customs. From there it will fly to Salt Lake City where the Prinoth service manager will personally deliver it to the Mercedes diesel engine shop in Rock Springs. We are looking at having it back in service in less than two weeks.
Groomer’s choice for today is to follow the tracks on the 10 K loop through the woods.
