At 10:00 road clear, parking lot muddy, no cars. Foggy conditions, minimal wind temp 10C (50F).

Trails are in poor shape. Heavy rains, warm temperatures, and high winds have played havoc out there. We will try to get some volunteers to help with park staff to start bucking trees, but will have to walk/ski on the trails since snow too thin for our snowmobile.

If you come up, be prepared for warm, wet, thin conditions with trees down.

At 9am, 21 cars, 29% Subaru. Temp 1C(34F), light wind, foggy. Road up snow covered after the hairpin.

Aaron, Pete, Tim and I cleared downed trees and groomed. Valley View, Alpine, Lodgepole, Shady, twin Lakes, Mica, Linder, Mt View, Wild Moose and the Meadows. Hopefully these will hold up to anticipated warmer temperatures and wind today.

Time to get your Sno-park pass, join Spokane Nordic, and go skiing!

Was able to groom the folowing trails today with both classic and skate deck: Mountain View, Valley View, Beargrass, Linder Ridge from Junction 1 to Mica ans Mica to junction 8 and back as well as Sam's swoop amd Shady way. these all recieved 2 passes. also did Shadow mountain but it needs to be rolled for better skiing, and Brians hill from Junction 1 to the learning area. total K groomed 28. We ended up getting @ 4 inches of snow while grooming so some of the tracks were covered. We have volunteers scheduled to groom tomorrow am so get out and ski. could have rain saturday late afternoon.

The ski season has officially started -- get your sno park permit, find all your ski gear, and get up there! There were 19 cars in the lot today. It was overcast/foggy, with snow falling, and right around freezing temperatures. Ted has the Nordic Hut trailer open, with sales and rentals available, and the Selkirk lodge is also open all day (the sign said until 9:30pm).

The volunteer crew has been out on many of the trails with the snowmobile groomer. They were setting classic tracks on trails today; elsewhere, the trails they had made several passes on had a more or less flat surface of packed snow, with shallow skied-in tracks. The snow isn't deep, but there is enough to ski on -- you don't need your "rock skis" today.

Tim R. and Pete D. Groomed 4 hours yesterday (Monday, Dec 1)

Pete, Bruce, and Duane did 6.5 hours today (Tuesday, Dec 2). The trails are solid with about 7 inches of packed snow. They did over 30 km of grooming!

Linder Ridge

Mica Road

Mountain View

Valley View

Alpine

Lodge Pole

Shady Way

Wild Moose

Moose Meadows

At 11:30, there were scattered low clouds and sun, 0C (32F), no wind. Road up mostly clear, lot had packed snow, 68 cars, 35% Subaru.

Last nights new snow gave a nice white blanket with moderately dense coverage. Grooming was really good with firm track mostly good bite, well set tracks, no organic or icy treefall. Tracked glazed as day progressed but skin skis still could get grip; deck stayed firm with mild slick spots on Tamarama hill. A truely excellent day to ski!

At 09:30, high wispy clouds but very sunny, 8C (47F), no wind. Road up ok, frozen dirt parking lot that softened later, full lot.

Again very good grooming with nice packing and track setting. Some of the trails had some groooming ruts and irregularities on the deck requiring skaters caution. Trails were nice and firm in the am, softening by noon and becomming almost "mashed potatoes" in the sun with very slow conditions. Still great skiing, bring your t-shirts and sun lotion tomorrow!