A dusting of snow last night, some icing in the trees and 37 degrees at 9am. It is spring. Malcom is doing a quick touch up to the trails, loose granular snow will turn to wet granular spring snow later this morning. Pretty much any minute actually.... 
I just LOVE spring skiing. The sky is blue, there's lots of snow still and the temperatures are going to be warm today. Yet another great day for a spring ski and a picnic! (Or a pocket full of Grandma Miller's cookies)

Looking ahead: we will not be open Wednesday and Thursday this week. We'll be back on Friday at 9am. Saturday is up in the air because of the weather forecast, Sunday is looking good. Sunday will probably be our last day of the season. Once things start to blossom and folks start pulling out their golf clubs there's not a whole lot of interest in skiing anymore. It's sad, but that's the way it goes every year. 

Open today from 9-4:30
15km open for skiing
30km open for snowshoeing
Loose frozen granular snow in the morning. It will be fast until the temperature gets above 32 degrees. Then it will soften up quickly.  Temperatures will be in the mid 40's today, so things will be quite soft later. Typically spring skiing is just this; hard and fast in the morning softening up to wet and squishy in the afternoon. Soft wet spring snow is so much fun to ski on. Today is a good picnic day, with the beautiful blue sky and warm sun, it's a perfect day to pack a lunch, find a picnic table and have a trailside lunch. Maybe add a little wine and cheese for good measure....

Open today from 9am to 4:45pm.
15km open for skiing
30km open for snowshoeing
One inch of new powder snow on top of loose frozen granular snow. The picture is from Malcolm's morning grooming run. Yes, that is today :-)

The skiing today will be really nice. It's windy this morning, but that will calm down. Temperatures are expected to go up to the high 30's or even low 40's. Spring skiing at its best. 

15km open for skiing, skate skiing will be really nice in the morning.
Malcolm is out grooming. Skiing today on a nice soft loose granular snow. 
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Malcom and Bob finally got the three big trees cut up and pulled off Ray's Run once the snow melted enough they could actually get to them. Malcolm was also able to groom out most of Loki's and River Loop. And after some work Boynton Run is still open for at least the weekend. 

Today will be overcast for most of the day as a bit of snow heads our way. Snow is expected to start at some point this morning with a potential for about 3" accumulation. The snow will change over to light rain late this afternoon

Open today with 14k groomed for skiing
30k open for snowshoeing
Malcom is grooming this morning. He's pulled up a lovely loose wet spring granular snow. With the warm temps we've lost a lot of snow depth. We still have a lot, but not the massive depth we had a week ago. There will be some thin spots at trail entrances, but they are easy to walk around. We may get another week out of this, we may not. This weekend could be the last good weekend this season. It's a good time to come for a ski.