We've got a warm forecast ahead of us which means grooming wise, we are going to continue to do as little as possible work on our trails. That being said, the town skiing is currently decent (I feel like I say that a lot). Sunset Hills is by far the best of the town skiing with only a little bit of grass showing and the trail surface is not yet crusty. There are some thin spots on sun exposed hills; as noted above, please helps us out and avoid snow plowing down the hills as much as possible. The trails are not directional and you are welcome to ski around these hills if you don't feel comfortable with them. Snowplowing, while effective at controlling speed, scrapes needed snow away and will accelerate our melt out.
Bridger Creek and Highland are ski-able but will have much more variable snow. The lower loops at Bridger creek are mostly fine but there are a couple large thin spots underneath the trees. Highland will have decent skiing in shaded, wind protected spots. Sunny slopes will be very thin and grassy and there are a couple spots that get wind scoured that will be thin too.
Again, with the warm weather ahead and our thin trail base, it is more important than ever that foot traffic please stay off of the in town ski trails. After seeing foot prints all over Sunset Hills this morning, apparently we can't repeat this enough. Having high quality in town skiing is a very unique and with the weather, fleeting thing. Especially this year, there are so many more places to walk and run. So skiers, if you feel comfortable with it, please help us out on this one and if you see people walking or running on the in town ski trails, please ask them to go else where. Foot traffic leaves deep holes and accelerates transformation of the snow into ice (just look at Sourdough). Multi use winter trails like Sourdough therefore require lots of grooming to maintain a good ski surface. With thin snow in town, we cannot do a lot of grooming and foot traffic will rapidly and heavily degrade the ski trail. As I've said before, BSF staff cannot be everywhere all the time so we need the community's help with this outreach!
And on the note of Sourdough; the lower mile or so is still thin but above that the skiing is excellent. The whole system was groomed Monday night and access from Moser on the Hyalite side is still in good shape so get out and enjoy it!
