Thursdays conditions

There is still some snow to be found. The 5k loop is almost intact with some detours for bare spots and a couple down trees. The trees are on the long diagonal and by the four corners behind the ice rink. The snow is fast for skating, just watch out for snow snakes!

Trail Report

The warm weather is chewing through our snow pretty quickly. The 5k has been groomed and track set. The skate lane and track were soft and wet this morning, but with the wind and cold weather it should dry out and set up tonight. Conditions will be very fast tonight if it firms up. There is a lot of tree debris on the trials from the wind. Some bare spots have started to form. We were able to cover them thanks to our awesome new grooming machine. Remember if you liked the conditions this year, all the work in the trails is volunteer, and our budget is based on your donations.

Trail Report

The 5k loop has been groomed and track set. The skate lane is fast and firm. The classic track is shallow and soft. Conditions are more favorable for skating. The snow should soften up nice today. Use caution on the ungroomed trails. There is still some tree debris on the trails.

Primary surface: Granular
Secondary surface: Hard pack

Morning Report

Smoothed out the 5k skate lane, and groomed and track set all other trails. The 5k track was left ungroomed. I apologize for grooming over some of the classic track, but most of it is still deep. The skate lane is fast and firm!

Primary surface: Machine groomed packed powder

Trail Report

Although some sloppy snow fell the other night, conditions are prefect on the trails. The 5k loop has been groomed and track set. Secondary trails are still ungroomed. We plan on grooming those on Saturday morning. Get out there and have some fun!

Conditions

You can't ask for much better than this. Fresh groom on the skate lane this morning. The classic track was left mostly untouched. Secondary trails have been groomed. Check out the Hadley Loop for an interesting alternative. Enjoy

Primary surface: Machine groomed packed powder

Secondary surface: deep powder

Saturday Trail Report

Snow Height: 12cm

We picked up a few cm of snow from the clipper.
We have reports that the trails are fully groomed, track set, and conditions are perfect mid-winter.  Have fun.

PM Trail Report

Trails are groomed and track set. 
It's cold out there, -10C and dropping.

AM Trail Report

Temperature: -11C
Rel. Hum: 90%
Snow Height: 7cm
Snow Type: Powder on Ice

Trails are rolled, not quite enough to pack or set a track.  Skiable though.  Have fun skiing!

PM Trail Report

Temperature: -1.1C
Rel. Humidity: 95%
Snow Height: 25cm
Snow Type: nice!
Weather: light snowfall

Trails are groomed and track is set.  Beautiful out there.

AM Snow Report/Area Trail Report

Air Temperature: -15.7C
Rel. Humidity: 80%
Snow Height: 33cm
Snow Type: Powder
Weather: Clear

We picked up another 2cm snow last night.

Area trail report:

Cole's Woods: groomed and track set
Queensbury School: groomed and track set
Lake George School: groomed, no tracks
Kensington School/Crandall Park: not groomed

Lake George Rec. and Gurney Lane, I've never seen them groomed, and were not yesterday, so won't ever look or report there again.

AM Snow Report

Air Temperature: 0,2C
Rel. Humidity: 93%
Snow Height: 16cm
Snow Type: Wet new snow
Weather: misty

We picked up some fresh snow last night after some loss on Thurs. and Fri.  Trails were nicely groomed on Friday for the high school race, so they should definitely be nice with the fresh snow on top.  Will check it out later today.

PM Trail Report

Air Temperature: -17.6C
Rel. Humidity: 70%
Snow Height: 11cm
Snow Type: Thin powder with boilerplate ice underneath
Weather: clear and coooold

Back on my feet and skis.  The trails are actually nice for rock skis.  There is anywhere from 2mm to 2cm of powder snow on boilerplate hard ice, depending on whether it's under a lot or little tree cover, respectively.  Fortunately, all the downhills are on the more snow side so on slow rock skis, are all very doable.  Classic is recommended because there is debris under the powder or melded into the ice, so some areas it is definitely lurchy.  Obviously no tracks set in the hard ice, so lots of double poling, short diagonal strides, or herringbone only.  If you have sharpened rollerski poles, use those.  The ice was so hard, my regular snow baskets were slipping all over the place...

AM Snow Report

Air Temperature: -4C
Rel. Humidity: 77%
Snow Height: 15cm
Snow Type: powder on ice
Weather: slightly overcast

We picked up 4cm of fresh new snow yesterday.  Surface is powder, with ice underneath.  Crandall and Kensington are groomed, great for the little kids.  Add that to Cole's Woods and Queensbury being groomed and today is an excellent day to enjoy the powder surface, snow temperature won't get above freezing today :-)

Merry Christmas! Trail Report

Air Temperature: -13.1C
Rel. Humidity: 71%
Snow Height: 11cm
Snow Type: icy hardpack
Weather: Sunny

Area trails (thanks for the grooming yesterday! best xmas gift to all)
Cole's Woods - regroomed yesterday, full coverage with minimum icy spots, old classic track still usable, best bet in the area, have fun!
Queensbury - main trails in the woods are not usable, too many big icy patches where water collected and refroze boiler plate hard with skate ruts that'll land you on your butt if you are ever trying to really skate, however the field is groomed for skating and is a nice sugary 2.5km snaking route.

PM Trail Report

Air Temperature: 0.9C
Rel. Humidity: 93%
Snow Height: 11cm
Snow Type: icy mush
Weather: Misty

Track set from Thurs. still usable.

Looks like we'll get out of this one alive.  This morning remained near freezing with ony a mild shower around noon.  Maximum temperature all day was 1.5C and it is now dropping. Trails had 100% cover, they weren't pretty but are skiable.  Recommend classic skiing until the trails are regroomed, since there are tons of divots from people who shouldn't be walking on the groomed trails, and some nice long skate ruts from people skating or herringboning on the mushy snow a couple of days ago.  Should be fun and icy tomorrow!

AM Thaw/Trail Report

Air Temperature: 0.4C
Rel. Humidity: 87%
Snow Height: 25cm
Weather: Overcast

Trails are groomed and classic track is set.  Snow is of course soft.  Things held up well after the first day of thaw, but the real onslaught starts today with above freezing AND rain. Will report on trail conditions as this develops.

830pm Trail Report

Air Temperature: -12.3C
Rel. Humidity: 70%
Weather: Clear
Snow Type: Powder

Groomed and classic track set. Light working well, except at 4-Corners.  We'll see if we can get those bulbs replaced with snow in place...

Very soft conditions, first grooming and good usage today made for tough skating with either the poles going very deep or the gliding ski hitting something.  Classic would be better until the trails firm up, which should happen after Thurs.

4PM Trail Report

Air Temperature: +4,5C
Relative Humidity: 49%
Weather: Overcast and windy
Snow Type: Wet
Snow Height: 15cm

Trails are groomed and tracked and have good snow cover, some thin spots in the usual problem areas, no issue skiing around these thin spots.  There is a lot of debris due to the high winds this morning. The snow is very slow, wait for tomorrow early AM when it's all frozen again to go fast.

8AM Trail Report

Air Temperature: -2C
Rel. Humidity:        77%
Weather:                 overcast
Snow Type:            transformed
Snow Height:         19cm

Groomed and track set, have a great weekend of skiing!