Scott groomed the track to the south and West of the Temple. Thank you, Scott!
I hope everyone is enjoying this great winter, although it’s been too cold for many of us the last two days. We had an official low temp at the airport of -27F yesterday, and not much warmer today. Windchill is still around a low of -35F. Brrr. Daytime temps have been a little more tolerable, but still it is hard to ski when the snow is so cold. Stay warm and safe!
Thanks to Randy who just finished tuning up the skate track. He said it looks good and should ski hold up for the coming week. The classic tracks are holding up nicely.
8:30am: Jeff rolled the deep, fresh snow yesterday afternoon (to pack it down), and then Doug groomed late last night or early this morning. I was out at 7:30 this morning and it was lovely. The skate track is still soft but will set up throughput the morning. The classic tracks are beautiful. It’s the Rexburg Winter Festival today at Teton Lakes. Should be a perfect day for winter fun. Enjoy!
Just finished making a few passes on the skate lane to try and compact the snow for grooming later tonight. Tomorrow is the Rexburg Snow-Fest, and so Doug will be hard at work with the Ginzu groomer getting things tuned up for Saturday. Right now the snow is very soft despite the rolling. There's a remnant of a skier defined classic track, but nothing formal.
We're grateful for the snow, but will wait until it stops before we commit to more work on the track.
My daughter designed some new signs for the Winter Park (see below). They were delivered today so we will try to set them out this weekend.
Hopefully we can educate people on trail etiquette. We are so thankful for the volunteer grooming and don’t want to create unnecessary extra work (repairing damaged tracks). Hopefully the signs will remind skiers to stay in their respective tracks, keep walkers and snowshoers off the groomed trails, and clearly educate people that fat bikes & dogs aren’t allowed. If only the deer and moose would also behave… :)
The ski trails at Teton Lakes Winter Park and also by the Temple have all been tuned up. The skiing is great. Enjoy!
Dave just sent this report:
Here now. Cold and windy. Fresh grooming skate and classic. I'm a little surprised at the amount of traffic already on the skate track but it is obviously fresh corduroy from grooming perhaps early this morning.
