Author: Jesse Crocker

November 2017 Meeting

It’s that time of year again! The weather is getting colder, snow is starting to show up on the mountains, and it’s time for the first meeting of the season.

The meeting will be on November 9, at 7pm, at the Presbyterian Church, 1220 West Main Street, Hamilton, MT.

Speaker to be announced soon.

Trail maintenance day, Saturday September 23

Of course with our valleys full of smoke it’s hard to think too much about skiing, but rest assured the snow will come. We have been checking out the trails at Chief Joseph lately and there is some trail work and maintenance to be done before the season.

Bill Sweet is taking charge of this project and is planning a trail work and maintenance day for September 23, 2017. We will be removing some downed trees, and also taking down some trees that obstruct the grooming. We could use at least 3 “sawyers” and several more volunteers to move the cut logs and branches out of the way.

We also need to do some work on the emergency caches, as their support structures are starting to fail. Bill will be working on that in the next couple weeks, but we might have to wrap up that work on the 9th as well.

In addition, we’re looking at upgrading the ski rack at the cabin to make it higher – to accommodate skis even as the snow piles up. So, we have quite a few projects penciled in for the 23rd. Please let us know if you can make it and we will discuss timing and potential carpooling.

Grooming Report 3/31/2017

Grooming report; 5+” of snow last night. Gave me lots to work with, Trails all came out nice today. Groomed everything except Middle fork and Lower Loop, it was cool and foggy all day but no new snow. No snow predicted overnight so it should be really good tomorrow, nice weather is predicted for most of the day.
That was it for grooming this year, come up and enjoy it for the last time. Pond Skim over at LT begins at 2:30. Head over after skiing for a Burger and great humor watching the crazies try and make it over the pond. Tony

3/23/17 Grooming report

Spring conditions, need to time your skiing for the rest of the season between the ice & the slop or 11:00 to 3:00.
The crust cruising in the morning is really good right now!
Groomed the multi-use trails today, will be great skiing tomorrow.
Not grooming the Chief Joe till Sat.. With the firm conditions we are going to wait till the new snow expected on Friday night falls.
This will give us some better snow to work with, other wise if I groom it tomorrow it will be frozen corduroy with 3″ of wet snow on top of it. Should be really good conditions right after its groomed on Sat. Tony

Spring conditions, need to time your skiing for the rest of the season between the ice & the slop or 11:00 to 3:00.
The crust cruising in the morning is really good right now!
Groomed the multi-use trails today, will be great skiing tomorrow.
Not grooming the Chief Joe till Sat.. With the firm conditions we are going to wait till the new snow expected on Friday night falls.
This will give us some better snow to work with, other wise if I groom it tomorrow it will be frozen corduroy with 3″ of wet snow on top of it. Should be really good conditions right after its groomed on Sat. Tony