Thursday March 17, 2009
With more than a week of spring temperatures and sunshine, it's now clear that the 2008/2009 ski season is officially over here in Rochester. We had another great season this year!
Stay tuned for the end-of-season grooming report coming soon.
Have Ski Trail Grooming questions? Send them to: rascgrooming@charterinternet.com.
| Report Date | Date Groomed | New Snow | Classic Track? | Conditions |
| 3/17/2009 | - | - | - | - |
Friday March 6, 2009 - skiing is over.
| Report Date | Date Groomed | New Snow | Classic Track? | Conditions |
| 3/17/2009 | - | - | - | - |
Friday March 6, 2009 - skiing is over.
Friday March 6, 2009 - skiing is over.
Park Site
The Root River State Trail has more than 25 miles of groomed trail departing from Lanesboro. Conditions on this trail have been good this winter due to the ample snowfall.
Up-to-date trail reports are availabe on the Lanesboro.com web site. Note - A MN Ski Pass is required for anyone 16 and above to ski on the state trails. Click here for more information.
St. Mary's University has some of the most sheltered and consisitently well groomed trails in southeast Minnesota. Their grooming team lists trail conditions on the skinnyski.com trail reports. Click here for the trail reports page and select 'S MN' as the region of interest.
The trail reports below provides the most recent update on trail conditions on many of the most popular trails in Northern Wisconsin, and include the Birkie trail and other trails around Hayward, WI.
RASC Volunteer Ski Trail Grooming started this season on November 11, 2006 and concluded on March 12, 2007. During that time, a team of 7 volunteer groomers performed trail grooming on approximately 4.5K of trails at the Quarry Hill Nature Center. A 2.25K loop was also groomed on the fields of Schmidt Park on an experimental basis.
We provided good groomed conditions for 58 days of skiing. The team groomed 46 separate times for an approximate total of 144 volunteer hours, 426 snowmobile miles, and used 121 gallons of gas. Grooming operations were conducted without incident throughout the season, i.e. there were no occurrences of equipment damage, personal injury, or any other unexpected events. The new grooming equipment performed well. The most amazing results came from the YTS Ginzu Groomer’s ability to renovate an icy trail back to an ideal combed skiing surface in one pass. Packing and grooming for skate skiing took approximately 2.5 hours per outing. Setting a classic track took an additional 2.5 hours.
We’re looking forward to grooming next season. We’ll be researching better equipment and methods to pack large snowfalls as well as options for setting classic tracks with minimal snow. We will also work with the Park and Recreation Department to understand their preferences for grooming on the northwest side of town with the hope of continuing to offer that service next season.
