Last Grooming week of the season?

 

This week may be the last of the grooming season due to sketchy snow conditions , thank you for your support of the Nordic area this season.

Dan Miles

 Just returned from resetting the trail from the Parking lot to the Prayer flags. Snow is rapidly melting away but skiing is remaining Fair to Good with some icy patches beginning to show up. Caution and control is recommended on the descents especially on the narrow sections of the trails. Do get out and enjoy the spring like conditions.

Wayne

Ski conditions Sunday Feb 1

Very nice skiing today, with soft snow and easy downhill conditions...fast but not too fast, good kick and glide with no stick. The snow is starting to turn isothermic so warm top to bottom creating a very soft base. This means good track setting conditions, but soft overall with the UTV machine tracks digging in deep. If this keeps up, our snow pack will disintegrate in the next few weeks.

Get in the good skiing while you can!

Kaslo Nordic Ski Trails grooming report for Friday January 30 by Wayne Campbell

 

Kaslo Nordic Ski Trails grooming report for Friday January 30 by Wayne Campbell

This morning I groomed and set track from the Hwy 31A parking lot to the Prayer Flags at 7 Mile FSR turnaround. Because the snow is warm and wet, with drizzle the whole time, the track went in to full depth for most of the trail. Conditions are therefore wet and sticky. I groomed and set track at Moose Meadow stadium for the youth program on Sunday.

Wayne

Kaslo Nordic Ski Trail grooming report for Saturday January 24 by Stu Heard

Grooming and track setting today / afternoon was cool -3  to  -7 with clearing skis later afternoon that made for spectacular views. Pacific wrens are skittering about along the trail in the low shrubs, and snowshoe hare tracks are evident in the surface hoar frost alongside the ski trail. I groomed and double track set from Hwy 31A parking lot to Moose Meadow cabin, and groomed and track set for the Nordic youth program tomorrow Sunday January 25. I groomed and set single track to the prayer flags / 7 Mile FSR from Moose Meadow cabin. The dog trail (K9) was groomed on Wednesday as best can be, so I “Let It Be” today.

Ski conditions continue to be fast and hard, though not icy. Snowplow skills are a necessity.

REMINDER: Kaslo Youth Nordic Ski program is tomorrow Sunday January 25 from 9:30 am to 1pm so the parking lot will be very active.

Nordic Jan 21

 Kaslo Nordic Ski Trails grooming report for Wednesday January 21 by Stu Heard and Sarah Heard

It was -3C at Moose Meadow cabin at 2pm when we started grooming, and the tracks were hard and icy…..but they aren’t now! 

We groomed and set new ski track from Hwy 31A to the Yew Cabin and Prayer Flags, and groomed/knifed the Bucky Cabin wilderness ski route with good success in breaking up the surface and creating a soft snow over a hard pack base. We set double track from Hwy 31A parking lot to Moose Meadow cabin, and single track from MM Cabin to Prayer Flags. We knifed, groomed and set no track along 7 Mile FSR from Prayer Flags to Bucky Cabin. It seems that with this hard ice layer, even the Moose are moving lower out of the hard crust.

Overall, the skiing is fast and hard with soft snow for snowplowing slowing down.

Happy Trails
Sarah and Stu

Nordic Jan 20

Kaslo Nordic Ski trail grooming report for Tuesday January 20

The tracks from Sunday are hard and fast, so I didn’t groom today. However, Sarah and I will groom and set track Wednesday afternoon once the snow temperature has risen a bit. We will groom the dog trail but not set a track due to thin snow, and groom from the Prayer Flags to Bucky Cabin, and groom and single track from the Prayer Flags to Moose Meadow cabin. The tracks from Hwy 31A to Moose Meadow are very firm and about as good as is possible for our current conditions, so we will not be grooming or track setting that section of the trails.

Overall, skiing is good with hard snow and fast downhills. However, there is lots of room for snowplowing to slow down, and while its hard, overall its not icy, except some areas of the dog trail, which has both ice and bare ground.

Happy Trails
Stu