ELTA

We are all set for some great skiing on Saturday because Gary Adams and John McDonald groomed today. Enjoy the weekend!

We did an experiment today. Anaconda Snowmobile Club and groomer operator, Nick Roche came and ran their Prinoth groomer on EL and Powerline trails. It widened, leveled and smoothed the surface beyond what we can do with our equipment. The next time you see Nick or any of the ASC members, be sure to thank them in helping maintain the ELTA trails. Skaters, let us know if it improved your skating experience.
Mark Switek

We are finally catching up from this last weeks snows. Echo Lake trail was graded back wide again and finish groomed. Hopefully the soft skate lanes have stiffened up a bit. All trails on the EL side have been track groomed. Mark Switek

Help us celebrate 6 awesome years of the Echo Lake Trails Association! Bring a side dish, we’ll bring the brats and beer, beginning at 11 am. Get out for a ski and visit, join us at the Philipsburg Brewery afterwards 3-6 pm for a fundraising good time.

Gary and I finally got to do finish grooming from this weekends snow event. All trails are track set and the skate areas have been groomed.
Mark Switek

The trails were again compacted this afternoon. No tracks were set and we will wait until the end of this snow event to do finish grooming. Thanks for your patience and hope you enjoy all the fresh snow.

Mark Switek

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Ya hoo. We finally are getting the snow we have been waiting for. We compacted the snow on all the trails this morning but with the forecast, it will be a bushwack weekend. More snow for today through Sunday and it won’t harden up any time soon. It’s going to be a poor weekend for skating or track skiing. It will be great to get back to the roots of Nordic skiing and enjoy getting out on the fatties.
Mark Switek

Mark groomed and set beautiful tracks on Echo Lake trail, Flossies Flurry, Paradise and Powerline today as well as Cable trails. Great skiing today.
Weather forecast looks like we are finally going to get a “wicked stawm” over the next few days, so hopefully we should see great coverage on Paradise and Powerline. At least we won’t be skiing in conditions like this:

Gary Adams groomed all the trails today. Thanks Gary! See you all out on the trails. Local moose are washing salt off cars at Midway warming hut. No charge (yet) Thanks Beatrice Pitcher for the photo