While it is still a warm winter, we are at least getting snow now. In the last week, the town trails have picked up around a foot of nice, moisture dense snow that is packing down into a fantastic base for our trails. Higher up, Sourdough and Hyalite recieved significantly more! The Forest Service got out and groomed a portion of the Hyalite trails but between down trees and wallowing through the deep snow, they could not get to the whole thing. Friday night, the BSF crew took the Pisten Bully up Sourdough and groomed to Mystic Lake and the Moser Trailhead, so everything is now wide and flat though it will be a little soft. The lower miles have excellent coverage and all of the last rocks are buried.

On the town trails, Sunset Hills and Highland Glen are now being groomed with the Pisten Bully and are both in very good shape. Bridger Creek is only snowmobile groomed, so there has been a lot of work with the roller out there to get everything packed down. We will get out and do a proper grooming with set tracks for the weekend but expect skiing at Bridger Creek to be the softest of all of our trails.

General reminder: there are no dogs allowed on any of the in town ski trails; only Sourdough and Hyalite allow dogs. Among the many reasons for this, dogs increase the wear and tear on trails, similar to foot traffic. Being community trails funded by what are effectively donations, we cannot afford to groom every night, so if you are taking your dog for a ski at Sunset Hills or Highland Glen, that is a bit of an irresponsible trail use and makes things harder for the rest of us. We know it is a bummer that none of the in town trails allow dogs but please, help us out and save the dog skiing for either off trail town adventures or Sourdough and Hyalite. Hopefully in the near future we can figure out some in town, dog friendly skiing.