November 30th Grooming Report
A Day of Surprises!
As the Husky was making the initial voyage of the day through the woods, our resident elk herd, which in the past was quite skittish around grooming equipment, acted today as if it was finally getting habituated to the machine that made nice trails for them through the woods. They stood around watching the grooming, not much more excited than a moose would be. In prior years the elk tended to panic at the sight of a snow cat. The image above was taken in the Moose Loop area.
Another surprise today is that the snow is coming at a much more intense level than was forecast. So far totals have surpassed the half foot mark, rapidly climbing towards a foot. We still are forecast another big shot later in the week; things are starting to get deep!
The Husky was hard at it today, making voyages on most every trail. The early morning focus was on woods trails, making a single pass on all the recently groomed trails with fresh classic tracks on Armin’s. Mid-morning focused on some burning and getting rid of brush piles, then in the late morning time slot the Close Field was fully worked with fresh classic tracks. Skiing is soft but lovely, it’s a great day for a classic ski.
Groomer’s choice is a long elk scouting ski in the woods.
