December 24

Doug sent this today. Hooray!

 Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a trail update.  We received an unexpected snow yesterday and it turned a sad looking trail into a very nice skating track and an Ok conventional track.  I am not sure why it turned out as good as it did but the grass is covered 90% on the skate track and about 70% in the bottoms of the conventional tracks.  I think what happened was the early snow was wet, almost slush and it fell on a frozen grassy base coating the grass in ice.  Then we received a couple of inches of lighter cold snow that stuck to the glazed over grass. We ended with an amazing base and a skiable trail for the holiday.  The conventional track out of necessity moved away from the skate track in places try to find deeper snow.  The golf guys may be unhappy if I leave it there but for now until we get more snow it will allow us to ski.  Come try it out and the Lord will bless us with more snow soon.  Have a great holiday.