Grooming Report 12/22

Bitterroot Cross Country Club

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Gibbons Pass Multiple Use Trail System

Grooming Report

Date:_____12-22-2016______ Temp:______0_____F

Snowing During Grooming:_____ No Snow During Grooming:__x___

Grooming Disclaimer: Ten + inches of snow fell during the week. Skiing should be super fun.

Trail Name: Easiest

Groomed

Comments:

CD Trail

x

Broadway

x

Cut Thru

x

Sunny Meadows

x

Timber Trail

x

Technique

x

Sentinel Meadows

x

Moose Trail

Powder Run today

Solitude Trail

x

Windy Passage

x

Trail Name: More Difficult

Groomed

Comments:

Lost Trail Loop

x

Herringbone

x

Gold Medal Loop

x

Vista View Trail

x

Josephs Creek Trail

Lower Loop

Trail Name: Most Difficult

Groomed

Comments:

Whoopee

Banshee Trail

Middle Fork Trail

Trail Name: Multiple Use

Groomed

Comments:

Gibbons Pass Road: mi 0-7

x

Groomed only to Windy Passage

Gibbons Pass Road: mi 7-8

Overlook Trail

Sunshine Run

Rabbit Run

Coyote Run

Hogan’s Run

Trail Creek Road: Gibbons Pass Intersection to Hogan’s Cabin Turn off: 2.5 miles

Trail Creek Road: Hogan’s Cabin to Hwy 43: 5.2 miles

Comments Continued:

Bitterroot Cross Country Club

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Gibbons Pass Multiple Use Trail System

Grooming Report

Date:_____12-22-2016______ Temp:______0_____F

Snowing During Grooming:_____ No Snow During Grooming:__x___

Grooming Disclaimer: Ten + inches of snow fell during the week. Skiing should be super fun.

Trail Name: Easiest

Groomed

Comments:

CD Trail

x

Broadway

x

Cut Thru

x

Sunny Meadows

x

Timber Trail

x

Technique

x

Sentinel Meadows

x

Moose Trail

Powder Run today

Solitude Trail

x

Windy Passage

x

Trail Name: More Difficult

Groomed

Comments:

Lost Trail Loop

x

Herringbone

x

Gold Medal Loop

x

Vista View Trail

x

Josephs Creek Trail

Lower Loop

Trail Name: Most Difficult

Groomed

Comments:

Whoopee

Banshee Trail

Middle Fork Trail

Trail Name: Multiple Use

Groomed

Comments:

Gibbons Pass Road: mi 0-7

x

Groomed only to Windy Passage

Gibbons Pass Road: mi 7-8

Overlook Trail

Sunshine Run

Rabbit Run

Coyote Run

Hogan’s Run

Trail Creek Road: Gibbons Pass Intersection to Hogan’s Cabin Turn off: 2.5 miles

Trail Creek Road: Hogan’s Cabin to Hwy 43: 5.2 miles

Comments Continued:

Grooming Report 12/16


Final grooming report. “Really cold up there”! All upper trails have been compacted with the Pisten Bully and gone over many passes with the compaction/leveler drags. Still too thin of a snow cover to set tracks, we hit quite a few stumps and logs today just under the surface.
Should be able to get tracks in on all upper trails next week after a couple more inches of snow. Lower trails are still unpacked, we barely got down Joseph Creek and back up today. Got really buried a number of times, its quite deep and bottomless snow down there.
If anyone is looking for a project it would really help if a group got together and went down the lower trails- Middle Fork, Joseph and Banshee on snowshoes! Spread out across the trails and really stomp a platform by knocking the air out of the snowpack. This would help the grooming crew immensely, allowing us to be able to get down them and get the base established so we can start grooming them. Tony

Grooming Report 12/12

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Snow keeps piling up! Grooming crew put in another day of packing all of the new snow into a really solid base. Some trails were so deep we felt like we were driving submarines not snowmobiles.
We have created enough base to allow the Pisten Bully with its new press bar implement to get onto many of the trails today to really create a solid base.
Was snowing like crazy when we left at 5:00 pm. Tony

Grooming report 12/10

Grooming Crew put in a full day Yesterday! First groom of the season, 18″ of really dry snow, still does not have much of a base under it.

We were able to get almost all of the upper trails packed yesterday, bounced off of quite a few stumps in the process, but we have a nice level, firm base to work off of now.

Early season Conditions, still quite a few stumps, logs and rocks just under the surface. Beginners or folks taking less skilled skiers out should avoid the steeper downhills and stay on the upper more levels trails. Falling down into the powder risks hitting stuff that’s just hiding under the snow. Be careful, more snow on the way and conditions will just keep getting better. Tony

Trail Report 12/2/16

Still not enough snow to ski on, the 6″ we had has settled down to roughly 4″. Not nearly enough to cover all of the stumps, rocks, dirt and beargrass. We did a test roll today, not pretty, hit many stumps, rocks and dirt just going out to the cabin and back. There were some ski tracks, but if you value your skis and body it’s not worth even trying yet.
The last couple of storms have tracked further north and not left more than an 1″ of snow so far this week. This next series of storms might give us enough to at least get a base packed on some of the smoother roads and trails, stay tuned. – Tony