December 9th Grooming Report
Husky Time!
A beautiful sight is a Prinoth Husky making its way around the trails at Trail Creek! Today was the maiden journey; the Husky did carefully venture forth, making an exploratory lap around the close field with some quite nice results. This lap did confirm however that conditions are still very thin and that the Husky will be bowing out to the Ginzu for the majority of the grooming until substantial additional snow falls. Speaking of snow fall, about five inches is now being projected in the hourly forecast over the weekend.
Today’s grooming was much more than the Husky’s lap, the Ginzu covered all of the recently groomed trails today with multiple passes. The major trail sections not being groomed yet are the East Fields and the National Forest trails right next to the Old Pass Road. Every day and every bit of additional snow helps to move our current rustic conditions closer to Nordic pristine. While definitely not yet ready for the Olympics, the most recent inch of snow and a couple of passes from the Ginzu bring most of the trails to the best conditions of the year yet. Do be careful on several of the forest trails that still have prominent ruts from vehicle traffic and watch out for quite a bit of brush showing through as well.
Looking ahead to next week, the really good news is that West Yellowstone finally got enough snow to host the season’s IMD opener December 15th and 16th. Full details are available at their website; a road trip to West Yellowstone is always fun, next weekend you could also watch some great Nordic racing!
Groomer’s choice for today is a few bluebird sunny laps on some tantalizingly beautiful Husky grooming.
