BIRCH HILL TRAIL REPORT
UPDATED DAILY FROM OCTOBER TO APRIL
04/15/2008 10:06
Bill and Carl groomed the Blue, Outhouse, Lighted Loops and the White Bear to the 6 km cut-off. They where have problems setting tracks in the wet snow so the tracks are hit and miss.
LIGHTED LOOPS
| NAME |
SKILL |
DISTANCE |
DATE LAST GROOMED |
CONDITION |
| WARM-UP LOOP |
EASY |
1.5 KM |
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| TOWER LOOP |
DIFFICULT |
2.3 KM |
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| ROLLER COASTERS |
MORE DIFFICULT |
0.9 KM |
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| RELAY START LOOP |
EASY |
0.75 KM |
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| WHITE BEAR ACCESS |
DIFFICULT |
0.9 KM |
BLUE LOOPS
| NAME |
SKILL |
DISTANCE |
DATE LAST GROOMED |
CONDITION |
| BLUE LOOP |
DIFFICULT |
1.2 KM |
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| OUTHOUSE LOOP |
DIFFICULT |
2.5 KM |
BLACK LOOPS
| NAME |
SKILL |
DISTANCE |
DATE LAST GROOMED |
CONDITION |
| COMP LOOP |
MOST DIFFICULT |
1.1 KM |
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| NORTH FORTY |
MOST DIFFICULT |
2.5 KM |
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| BLACK CROSS |
MOST DIFFICULT |
2.5 KM |
WHITE BEAR LOOPS
| NAME |
SKILL |
DISTANCE |
DATE LAST GROOMED |
CONDITION |
| WHITE BEAR |
DIFFICULT |
9.9 KM |
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| MOILANEN MEADOWS |
DIFFICULT |
1.5 KM |
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| CLASSICAL ONLY |
DIFFICULT |
6 KM |
Trail Etiquette: 1) When Skate skiing don't skate on the classical tracks. 2) Classical skiers if you need to herring bone up a hill step out into the skate lane. 3) Skiing backwards is dangerous to others but you also end up skating or herring boning up the best line tracks on the downhill's. 4) Yield to the groomers step to the opposite side of the trail and stop. 5) If we are grooming a trail it helps to not ski on it until we are done, on some of the trails to save time we may make a pass backwards. 6) If we are regrooming a trail it helps not to ski the old tracks back in, generally with in an hour we will have set new tracks.
When you ski off the trails into the woods and go to a road or snowmachine trail your tracks become a magnet for the snowmachiner's they will follow your tracks back to the groomed ski trail.
Please keep checking here and on the clubs web site throughout the summer of opportunities to help with trail improvement projects. See you next fall.
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