Category: Trail Report

Most of the ski trails were groomed this morning, with tracks set.

Gibbons pass road was groomed all the way to the pass, with tracks set, and should be really good for fat bikes.

The skiing is really good, for skate and classic.

Skiing at Chief Joseph Pass is not effected by the government shutdown. The trails, cabin, and outhouses will remain open.

All of the ski trails were groomed today, some with the snowcat from Lost Trail, and some by our volunteer snowmobile grooming crew. Gibbons pass road was groomed yesterday, it got a few inches of snow on it overnight, probably not good for skate skiing, but it’s in great shape for fat biking, and it should be groomed again soon.
Banshee, Joseph Creek and middle fork are only 5 feet wide right now, and do not have tracks set.

It should be great conditions for skiing at Chief Joseph Pass all weekend and over the holiday week.

Gibbons pass road was snowcat groomed all the way to the Pass this morning, with classic tracks the whole way.

The snow cat from last trail made it’s way onto the ski trails for the first time today, and groomed CD, Broadway, Timber, and Windy Passage. Our volunteer snowmobile grooming crew is out now grooming other trails.

The ski season at Chief Joseph Pass officially begins this coming Saturday, December 1. There has been over a foot of new snow at the pass in the last week, but we are currently planning on having the main trails starting from Chief Joseph Pass groomed with snowmobiles, but there will not be tracks set. The lower trails, Joseph Creek, Banshee, and Middle Fork still need more snow. The Multi-use trails, Gibbons pass road, will probably not be groomed. Once the season starts dogs are no longer allowed on the ski trails, but are allowed on the multi-use trails all season.
The Gordon Reese Cabin will be open for use a warming hut starting Saturday.

Pisten Bully’s still down, volunteer grooming team was out today knocking down the 14+” of snow that fell after we groomed last Sat.

Rolled all of the trails, but they were getting kinda lumpy from just grooming with the rollers, conditions have not allowed us to drag it for the last couple of weeks.

Dug out the YTS leveler/compaction drags, they were only under 5′ of snow! Took some digging but we found them where we had leaned them against a tree, much digging later we got them out. They had not been moved since mid-dec.!

Dragged all of the upper trails, came out nice. We will be back up on Sat. to drag everything again and set tracks,.

The grooming department from lost trail groomed the wider ski trails last night with one of the large snowcats used at the downhill area. Our volunteer grooming crew was out this morning setting tracks on the snowcat groomed trails and grooming the rest of the trails.