March 3rd Grooming Report
Three Days and Counting!
In less than three days this nearly empty field will be filled with lots of Covid-safe racers, having a great time wrapping up the 2020-2021 season with the last major youth event of the year, the Western Youth Championships. Actually Friday is course inspection day with racing on tap for Saturday and Sunday. In order to keep racers safe, the method will to be to launch racers in different waves throughout each day, thus keeping the numbers on snow at any one time not too high. All the details are available at the Western Youth Championship webpage.
One item of note, all of the racing will take place in the fields and while grooming might be a bit unpredictable over the weekend, skiing should be fine in the woods with the end of the Old Pass Road the best access point.
Today’s grooming focused on the fields in preparation not only for the upcoming race, but also for the big practice session this afternoon. All skate lanes in the fields were thoroughly reworked, also the close woods in the moose and elk zones received skate grooming as well. All classic and skate lanes have been groomed in the past 36 hours and are in mostly really nice shape as temps have not gotten warm enough yet to cause significant ice. If you can make it out today, it will be a great ski!
Groomer’s choice for today is the sunny fields.
