March 13th Grooming Report
Final Week Festivities!
Coach Libby once again contributed some great images of the Teewinots having lots of fun at Trail Creek as they are wrapping up an amazing season this week.
Coach Libby reported “Teewinots are finishing up their season with a week of team building. Five groups of athletes embarked on a team scavenger hunt on Monday. Highlights included building human pyramids, spelling words with Nordic equipment, skiing TCR’s famous hills, finding forts & ringing cowbells & cheering our Prep/Comp racers and making videos thanking Muggs, Trail Creek Ranch, parents, JHSC board members and YOU!”
Thanks to Coach Libby for the pictures, all the rest of the coaches for all they do, and all of our skiers for giving it their all this year. Check out video 1 and video 2 of the Teewinots.
Lots of grooming happened today but before talking about that, a discussion of the weather is merited. We’ve been recently blessed with snow and cold, allowing us some wonderful January like conditions for the past week or so, pushing the local Snotel reporting station Phillips Bench to 104% of normal today. However, the forecast is showing big changes ahead; it looks like spring will be arriving at Trail Creek very shortly. Sunshine and temps climbing to near 50 early next week will be a big change. Thankfully we have a great snow base which should last for some time; the biggest change will be that the grooming schedule will probably shift to evening grooming in order to leave the best mid-day tracks. Grooming frequency might drop off a bit next week as the programs wrap up; stay tuned for more details next week.
Today however, everything has been groomed and everything is in nice shape. The initial Husky work was a single skate/classic pass on every woods trail which was followed by multiple passes of the fields, play areas, and Nordic X. You will find a few voids in some of the grooming, but temps are rising, the snow is softening, and it should be a great day to ski!
Groomer’s choice is widest and flattest of the year Homesite.
