Today’s report from Chief Joseph Pass: all trails groomed.

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Today’s report from Chief Joseph Pass: all trails groomed.

Lots of fresh snow, most trails groomed.

All trails at lake Como were groomed, including wolf track which was last groomed in 2014.
Today’s report from Chief Joseph Pass. Most trails groomed, but it’s snowing hard. If you want to skate get up there early, but it should be great conditions for classic skiing and touring all day.
8 AM: Grooming at Chief Joseph Pass is currently in progress with the snow cat. The plan is to groom all the ski trails and multi use trails. Track setting may be limited because of the amount of new snow in the past few days.
All ski trails at Chief Joseph Pass we’re groomed today, including Banshee, Joseph Creek, and Middle Fork. The multi use trails were not groomed today. We apologize for the lack of grooming reports for the last week, trails were getting groomed daily, but


The following trails at Chief Joseph Pass were groomed with the snowcat today: Gibbons Pass Road, Broadway, CDT, and Timber. Tracks have not been set.

The trails at Chief Joseph Pass received their first grooming of the season today. The upper trails were all groomed by our volunteer snowmobile groomers, but the lower trails, Banshee, Joseph Creek, and Middle Fork, still need more snow. The first several miles of Gibbons Pass Road were groomed with the snowcat.
The snow cover is thin, but there is a very firm base layer which allowed our groomers to get out with less snow than might otherwise be needed, but that means many of the trails are much bumpier than usual, and there is grass sticking through in spots. Some trails are only 5 feet wide, so take it slow. Tracks have not been set yet.