Nordic Pulse

Wednesday 11-Mar'26  -- 8:15 AM

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SHORT VERSION:  --  -8.3 °C  @ 8:15 AM  Thin cloud cover, light wind.  Excellent skate & classic skiing anywhere the snocat groomed. Good skate skiing where the trail has been skidoo/ginzoo groomed.

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LONG VERSION:  All caught up with grooming and tracksetting yesterday. We continue to work with one snowcat resetting tracks on the trails where the snowpack is deep enough that we won't be mining dirt and rocks, and one skidoo/ginzoo working the other trails that have been recently snocated, along with the trails that the snowpack has thinned past the point that we can safely take the snocat on them.  Anything on the report that shows both groomed and trackset was done with the snocat, & will be excellent skiing. Anything that shows only groomed, was done with the skidoo/ginzoo.

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Report Reading Hint: If you’re reading this on your phone, the trail report is much easier to read if you rotate your phone horizontal instead of vertical. In tech terms, that’s landscape instead of portrait.

If the previous sentence sounded like advanced astrophysics, please consult the nearest 5-year-old child (or grandchild). They will gladly provide technical support and possibly charge you one cookie, or a doubling of their inheritance share. The way inflation is going, you might want to get your calculator out to carefully determine which option is cheaper.

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Moon Dog: The regular access to Moon Dog is closed for now due to debris, flooding, and some impressive side-sloped ice features that we’re pretty sure were not part of the original trail design.  Good news: you can bypass most of the mess using a nice stretch of Dogpatch Trail. Just follow the skidoo/ginzoo groomed route. There’s one tight little squeeze near Moon Lake, but it should be manageable unless you’re skiing while carrying a couch.

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PARKING: The main lot is closed off until the atco trailers pay attention to their eviction notice.  The lot should be public parkable by late today, Wednesday.   In the meantime, there’s a ubiquitous plethora of public parking available in the other lots, which are all open and ready for your slightly crooked winter parking jobs.

A belated but heartfelt merci beaucoup (& a tip o’ the toque) to our new neighbours at Omenica Fabricating for letting us temporarily use and mildly abuse their property for overflow parking during last weekend’s competition.

They also designed, fabricated, and donated the brand-new yellow Barking Lot gate. Feel free to pause, peer, and politely praise it as you pass through. It’s a considerable upgrade from the pyromaniac’s delight that had been guarding the entrance since roughly the turn of the last millennium.

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Apologies for the tardiness, tiny typos, and/or miscellaneous omissions in today’s report.

It’s being remotely wrangled and hastily hammered together, &,  as the photo clearly confirms, first coffee comes before fast communication. 

Also, the bandwidth at this particular perch is a touch thin, so the report may have taken a slow scenic stroll through the internet before arriving.