The Silver Spoon Ski Fest and orienteering events have now run their courses and the trails are in many respects as good as they get. The tracks on D, R and X are heavily used, but appear to be in very good condition. C-loop remains skied only and not track-set recently, but is reported to be quite friendly and fun.
M-loop has the Silver Spoon classic track on "best racing line"; translated, the track is on average in the middle of the trail and cuts the corners gently. Very short sections of the track have been crushed by the team that retrieved the race signs, not much of a problem in general, and most of the track is like new. The bottom of the M-loop track is glazed and will be very hard after the temperature drops. M-loop is, at last, much smoother than previously and skate-skiing is as good as it gets except for the placement of the classic track.
The first ascent on S-loop and the first descent on H-loop remain in excellent skating condition with no classic track. The back sections of S and H have the recent snowfall relatively intact, with a reasonable classic track, but deep-snow skating. B remains ungroomed.
Had the weekend's temperature been colder, additional grooming would have been possible today. Since it is very detrimental to drive the machines on damp or wet snow, grooming will resume over the coming week on cold snow.
