Summarizing Winter 2011 2012
We were able to enjoy a few more hours of fun skiing in the Blue Hills this morning. The weather forecast suggests we are done grooming for the winter of 2011-12.Here's a bit of a recap:
- We started grooming on December 4th, & have skied in the Hills regularly since then (a total of 98 days on groomed snow).
- We groomed a total of 39 times.
- December was dry, allowing only 5 opportunities to groom - but we kept skiing on our rock skis.
- January snowfall picked up, groomers worked on 17 days that month.
- February was drier again, requiring 11 days of grooming.
- March produced our only decent snowstorm - & another 6 days of grooming.
We owe a big thank you to our groomers. Equipment break downs and mechanical problems were handled efficiently & never compromised the grooming. Thank you to Dan Bartels, Steve Gest, & Jesse Wimer for capturing every available snowflake & saving the winter of 2011-12! It certainly was an unusual winter (warm & dry). Fortunately, we were lucky to receive just enough snow to enjoy fun conditions for most of 3 months. Welcoming the many happy skiers that traveled to find snow in the Blue Hills was very rewarding.
Recent comments from the logbook in the warming house
- 3/8: Great ski today all alone! Thanks to the groomers for all the great work this winter. Hate to see it end. --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/9: Awesome! --author's location unknown
- 3/10: Got going 7:30 a.m. when "the window" was still closed & locked. Thanks to yesterday's grooming (by Dan the man) we threw the window open 'til it started to get slow ~9:30. What fun! --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/10: Another fabulous year in the Hills. Thank you to the crew! --Barron, WI
- 3/10: Great spring skiing. Thanks. --Minneapolis, MN
- 3/11: Great hike thru woods. Stayed off trails. This is what makes real outdoors men & women. --author's location unknown
- 3/13: Just checkin' out old playground. --author's location unknown
- 3/13: I was able to ski out the 'gravel road' about 2.5 km, crossing two short bare sections. to a wide melted out area then returned. --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/23: Snow completely gone - can you believe it! --Rice Lake, WI
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Summarizing Winter 2011 2012
We were able to enjoy a few more hours of fun skiing in the Blue Hills this morning. The weather forecast suggests we are done grooming for the winter of 2011-12.Here's a bit of a recap:
- We started grooming on December 4th, & have skied in the Hills regularly since then (a total of 98 days on groomed snow).
- We groomed a total of 39 times.
- December was dry, allowing only 5 opportunities to groom - but we kept skiing on our rock skis.
- January snowfall picked up, groomers worked on 17 days that month.
- February was drier again, requiring 11 days of grooming.
- March produced our only decent snowstorm - & another 6 days of grooming.
We owe a big thank you to our groomers. Equipment break downs and mechanical problems were handled efficiently & never compromised the grooming. Thank you to Dan Bartels, Steve Gest, & Jesse Wimer for capturing every available snowflake & saving the winter of 2011-12! It certainly was an unusual winter (warm & dry). Fortunately, we were lucky to receive just enough snow to enjoy fun conditions for most of 3 months. Welcoming the many happy skiers that traveled to find snow in the Blue Hills was very rewarding.
Recent comments from the logbook in the warming house
- 3/8: Great ski today all alone! Thanks to the groomers for all the great work this winter. Hate to see it end. --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/9: Awesome! --author's location unknown
- 3/10: Got going 7:30 a.m. when "the window" was still closed & locked. Thanks to yesterday's grooming (by Dan the man) we threw the window open 'til it started to get slow ~9:30. What fun! --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/10: Another fabulous year in the Hills. Thank you to the crew! --Barron, WI
- 3/10: Great spring skiing. Thanks. --Minneapolis, MN
- 3/11: Great hike thru woods. Stayed off trails. This is what makes real outdoors men & women. --author's location unknown
- 3/13: Just checkin' out old playground. --author's location unknown
- 3/13: I was able to ski out the 'gravel road' about 2.5 km, crossing two short bare sections. to a wide melted out area then returned. --Ladysmith, WI
- 3/23: Snow completely gone - can you believe it! --Rice Lake, WI
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