Grooming April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020 Grooming Report

Today’s report is brought to us by the NTN Grooming Staff and Volunteers.  If you see someone that is providing required services, please thank them.  Please do what you can to help.  Buy local.

Please help us continue to groom as long as possible.  You may follow the link   https://noquetrails.org/product/nordic-fund/ and contribute or feel free to contact the office or reply to this grooming report.  No contribution is too small.

 

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SPRING SCHEDULE IN EFFECT:  Trail Head is closed and the privy is locked.  Practice save social distancing and enjoy the beautiful skiing.

 

Forestville:  Doug will be running the Ginzu on high traffic sections this morning.

TRAIL – First Priority

Forestville to Pines Lower Animoosh Bully groomed and tracked 4/15/2020 Bully groomed and tracked 4/15/2020 Upper Animoosh Bully groomed and tracked 4/15/2020 Boozoo Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Zhing Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Papasay Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Gookookoo Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Bagwagi to 2nd cut off Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Chiwagi by pass Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Chiwagi Hills Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Migizi Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Waaban Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Mukwa Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Connectors Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020       TRAIL 2nd Priority   Mead Bypass 17k to 510 Ponds to Tourist Park T.P. to NMU Deep snow on trail Bully groomed and tracked 4/14/2020 Deep snow on trail Deep snow on trail

 

Check out the first major climb on Bagwagi yesterday: If you can imagine, at 10 AM I laid down first tracks on the best trail in the system.  Amy wrote yesterday that she is a Wagi convert.  “It is like I discovered a whole new trail system” she says.  It was fabulous yesterday.

Way too Long Grooming Report:

There are a lot of things I don’t understand.  Take small particle physics.  I don’t understand how electromagnetism functions.  I mean, it can be observed; even measured.  But, how electromagnetism interacts with the strong and weak atomic force to make it all work is a mystery to me.  After all, Heisenberg didn’t even understand the principal that made his, a household name.  About the principal, Einstein once famously quipped, “God does not play dice…”. Yet, in the end, he could not argue with the measurements.  I know Schrödinger’s cat is both alive and dead, but I don’t understand it.  So, when I arrived at the Chiwagi intersection with two highly ambulatory skiers, I was already negotiating my soul to hang with them for a while; after all, the Chiwagi hills are just ahead.  And then they were gone.  If you can imagine, they turned right.  I had never thought of such a thing.  I know it happens; you can see the evidence; ski tracks turning right.  But, just like the relationship between energy, matter and the speed of light squared, I don’t understand it.

Saux Head:  John and Tim packed and rolled the Race Loop, the Back Side Inner Loop and the Peep O Day today, the 14th.  The Wilson Creek section was not touched due to insufficient base conditions.

Tim will groom and set track today about 10:30 on the three loops after he does his Senior shopping tomorrow morning.

Big Bay Pathway:

No report at press time

Fit Strip:  Grooming has been suspended.  Expect some bare spots.

Snow Bike Trails:  

North Trails: North trails The Pines, Penstock, BLP Rocks and Collinsville back to BLP Trail Head loop is groomed, drifting snow and downed trees are cleared.

South Trails: No report at press time.

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Sondo