March 4th Grooming Report
Maximum Total Winter!
If you’ve ever wanted to find the ultimate winter conditions, it is pretty much here today at Trail Creek. The snow has continued to fall with another 6 inches so far since yesterday’s grooming; fences, bushes, sage brush, etc., have all simply disappeared from sight as the snow has accumulated. While the Phillips Bench Snotel is currently showing us at 97% of normal, the fact that we’ve rapidly climbed from a record low reading is making the snow we have seem like even more.
In spite of the fact that there is a seemingly endless amount of the glorious white stuff out there, if you have time for a Nordic ski today you will discover that where it counts, it has been tamed to form some pretty nice ski trails. The Husky was hard at it today, covering not only the basic trail network, but also all the funky play areas in anticipation of a busy practice session later in the day. Conditions are mostly quite nice although you will find some softer snow in places and few of the intersections have not totally cleaned up due to all the recent snow.
A special treat today was that a flock of pine grosbeaks were hanging around the cabin. They are a gray bird, about twice the size of a chickadee with some having very rosy heads, pretty cool. And finally, Wydaho Final is Saturday at Trail Creek (more tomorrow) and 11 of our JHSC Nordic athletes are off to the national championships in Lake Placid, NY later in the week, go racers!
Groomer’s choice for today is to take advantage of all that glorious winter and go on a long ski.
