Forgot to include in my last post, that Al will be grooming out Ward tomorrow afternoon (Friday) at 2 p.m.
Leslie
Thursday, January 7, 2010
January 7 grooming report
After a sprinkling of new snow, Kenton groomed out our high priority trails this morning, including Winslow/Sunset, Lion's, Scales, Loop 3 and the Dog Loop. Jon will be back at it tomorrow at 2 p.m. to groom up the remainder of the trails for the weekend. It's going to be super cold tonight -- 14 degrees below zero, but warming up to a balmy 23 tomorrow afternoon. Happy skiing!
Leslie
Monday, January 4, 2010
January 4 grooming report
Kenton did a great job grooming up everything and cleaning the trails up from the weekend's ski traffic -- thanks Kenton! All the trails at County Line and Skyway were groomed up this afternoon/evening. We'll probably hold off on touch-up grooming until Thursday morning at 7 a.m., as we are expecting some snow (don't know how much at this point) on Wednesday night. We'll also probably hold off on grooming Ward until Friday as well. Happy Skiing!
Skyway Skuffle Results
A special thanks to Jerry Nolan for posting the Skyway Skuffle results. Find them here: http://bit.ly/Skuffle
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Skyway Skuffle report
Once again Dave Aschwanden beat everybody and Christie Aschwanden beat all of the women and almost all of the men coming in one and three overall to capture the male and female wins in the Skyway Skuffle 10K freestyle race. Russ Bollig travelled from Broomfield and Kari Distefano travelled from Telluride to push Dave and Christie taking second for men and women. There was a good turnout for the race despite unsettled weather. Some other notable finishes from the pack were Kelsey Follett, member of the new Mesa State College Nordic Team, 4th place woman and 11th overall, Stu Krebs still cruising along at 75 in his vintage red suit, and Marty Wacker who decided to teach himself how to skate during his first ski race and finished smiling. Good job, everybody! Check out the nice coverage and photo of the race in the Sunday Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
The snow was cold and not very fast but the course was in great shape, firm and smooth. Thanks to groomer Jon Canty for race day grooming and fellow groomers Kenton Shaw and Al Fournier for consistently excellent trails. At 9:30 race morning it started snowing hard and began to blow so I was thinking, "Well, here's our normal race day blizzard right on schedule." Thirty minutes later the sun was out and I was grabbing my sun block. Maybe we've paid our dues after all. Generally, the day remained overcast but calm so everyone was able to comfortably hang out for hot minestrone and a generous variety of Clif Bar products after finishing. Thanks again to Clif Bar for sponsoring our races and to Acli-Mate Energy Drink for letting us try out their product. Bill and Shirley Ela, Tom Fanticone and Nilam Hypio were our much appreciated volunteer crew.
Tom Ela
GMNC Race Director
Saturday, January 2, 2010
grooming report January 2
Attached is grooming report for Saturday, January 2. Basically, we re-groomed race course -- thanks for a great job, Jon! -- this morning, which included Sunset, Lion's Vista, Arroyo and back Lion's. Since there was no snow, we did not re-groom anything else today, but all of the other trails with the exception of Kannah Crossing and Dog Trail were re-groomed last night, so should be in good shape. Because everyone's going back to work, we won't re-groom until later on this week, probably Monday or Tuesday afternoon/evening starting at 2 pm.
Leslie
Friday, January 1, 2010
Dec 31 Grooming Report
As I write this, it has officially turned 2010 -- so Happy New Years! Per requests, I am titling grooming report as of the day grooming was completed. Jon groomed out all the trails on County Line and Skyway today, so should be great skiing for tomorrow. He'll be back at it tomorrow afternoon at around 2 pm, and will be grooming the race course on Saturday morning for the race. Al also groomed Ward top to bottom today as well and will be touching it up on Saturday at 2 pm.
No grooming report attached today, as I'm having to send this remotely using another computer. I'll try to have one tomorrow evening for the race. New Years Day high is forecast for 27 degrees, and we do have snow forecast for Friday night and Saturday for the race -- looking at 3-6 inches total right now -- so it might slow down the race a bit -- but then as we're finding out this year, it's not a race unless it's stormy weather!
Leslie
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