December 22nd Grooming Report
Racing Weekend Continues!
Area youth are putting their intense training at Trail Creek to the test today, speeding around Nordic courses in both Bozeman, MT and Cody, WY, go teams! Results are being posted for the Junior National Intermountain Nordic Division Qualifier in Bozeman at this site. While no posting of results from the Wyoming High School Nordic race at Pahaska Teepee near Cody were readily available at report time, the best bet would be to check in with the Cody Enterprise which usually reports high school events quickly.
Things today at Trail Creek are looking quite nice. We readily survived yesterday’s wind storm with the only damage being a bit of needles, cones, small branches, and bark blowing on to the trails. Today’s Pisten Bully grooming did a good job of burying much of the debris enough so that it shouldn’t affect your skis too much. Today’s grooming was double Pisten Bully passes of the entire network. As of 9:45 AM the temperature was -6ºC/21ºF with calm and cloudy conditions which should be quite optimal for a great Nordic ski!
The animals have been extremely active again with the pair of big bull moose actually doing some sparring in the parking area. Our resident herd of elk are slowly becoming habituated to Nordic skiers and Pisten Bully’s and this morning were happily lounging in the Animal Farm area, very content with the fact that no predators have yet become as habituated as them.
Groomer’s choice for today is the forest road below Suicide.
