December 12th Grooming Report
Talk About Snow!
This time of year the topic of snow is on everyone’s mind around the valley, especially in our Nordic community. The past few La Niña winters may have spoiled us a bit with widespread Husky grooming, often by Thanksgiving. Perhaps this El Niño winter is a bit of a reality check; don’t despair however, if you look at our closest Snotel reporting station of Phillips Bench, while not a record year so far, the image above shows we are currently holding at 81% of the median snow level for December 12th. All in all we’re not doing too badly and we have been already experiencing some pretty good early season skiing. More great snow will hopefully be coming soon.
We do however have a bit of a dry forecast through the weekend so in order to preserve the current base, grooming will switch to every other day with the next grooming being Thursday morning until more snow falls.
Today’s grooming covered pretty much every trail that has been recently groomed, mostly with a Ginzu best line pass. The close field and Armin’s did get multiple passes. Classic tracks were reset in Armin’s and for the first time in the Close Field inner loop. Brush cutting was also high on the agenda for today.
Temps are balmy so grab your skis, watch out for the early season brush, and come on out and have a great Nordic ski today!
Groomer’s choice for today is Armin’s.
