04/26 - Thursday We groomed this morning. Spring Conditions! We have lost
a lot of snow the last 2 days. Numerous narrow spots have shown up on the
trails. We had to shovel snow on Campground and Meadow just so one could
ski out to Upper UW and Phils and beyond. Upper UW is good with the
exception of one area of grass on the trail. Phils thru Vans has some
narrowing of the trails, but all have plenty of width with good skiing.
Ridge has numerous narrowing and bare spots along with a few flat rocks and
stumps. All this being said, grooming operations have ceased. We will
monitor the weekend storm to see if grooming is possible again.

Randy

04/24 Tuesday - Groomed Campground Meadow, and Phils thru Vans, Upper UW,
and Ridge. All trails groomed out pretty good. Including Campground, and
the upper part of Alder, which apparently hosted a parade sometime Monday
afternoon. The numerous footprints were made when the snow was at a
vulnerable point so they were very deep causing obvious safety concerns for
skiers. I make this point because we made several extra grooming passes and
still could not remove all the tracks. We will touch up the trails again
Wednesday.

Randy

04/20 Monday - No new.. Still dealing with last weeks. Campground, Meadow
Upper UW, and Phils have been groomed. We removed several blown down trees
and have snowmobile packed from Turnpike thru the end of Vans. We packed
the first half of the return side of Vans(not the part down into Haunted
Forrest), and also the return sides of Moose, Turnpike and Phils. Tuesday,
we intend to groom those areas that we snowmobile packed today, along with
the areas we groomed today.

Randy

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04/19 Sunday - 2' of new. We were able to pack and somewhat groom
Campground, Upper UW and Ridge. Phils is rolled. We have some large trees
on the trail issue on Turnpike. The snow became too sloppy to continue our
efforts today. We will groom what have started, then we will attempt to
expand the skiable terrain on the morrow.

Randy

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4/18 Saturday - Luke and I went up this afternoon when the roads opened.
The snow is too deep along side of the highway to drive into the parking lot
at Tie City. We went back to the rest area to talk to a snowplow driver to
see when the parking lot might get some attention. He promptly closed Happy
Jack road behind us. (I know, the Wyoming DOT website says it is open... It
was still closed as of 5pm, I was looking at the gate.) A Wyodot supervisor
said they needed a bigger piece of equipment to get the job done, and it
would be awhile before that happened. We will try again Sunday morning.

Randy

4/14 Tuesday-  The snow's been going fast in many places the past few days.  I've been trying to keep things covered enough to make it out to the better skiing without crossing dirt, but you can only shovel so much.  Sections of many trails are still looking great, but you definitely have to deal with thin or bare sections on most trails now.  It looks like the second half of the week should bring colder temps and the possibility of snow, so maybe we'll luck out and we can draq this out another week or so.  Pray for snow!

Luke      

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4/13 Monday-  Yesterday's storm turned out to be mostly rain, but we did pick about and inch of new snow before it got too warm.  Other than a few spots on Campground and the Meadow, coverage is still good all the way up to the top of Van's.  However, caution is advised on the downhill side of Phil's, as well as Lower UW and Alder.  You can still ski them, but they are opening up pretty bad in a several spots.  Upper UW is still looking pretty good except of a couple of the same thin spots we had several weeks ago.  Looks like we'll have a lot more melting over the next few days, so skiers might have to cross some bare ground to get out to the more consistent skiing.  

Luke

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