Ladybird Trail March 21st 2024
East Ladybird Trail groomed back to 21km. Spring snow conditions made for one of those tougher grooms showing up much earlier than normal. The cat is parked up at around 6km with limited parking. If there is parking at the 5km water hole best to use it as its snow from there up. Road is not great so trailers are not the best. Goose Creek Trail Road up to 3km staging area is still pretty muddy in spots. If you can avoid that road that would be good. Please note we are only recommending not to use that road to help save the road base. Have a good weekend. Ladybird Trail March 13th 2024 Trail Groomed to 19km cat turnaround. Two trees removed from trail. Probed 10cms of fresh and 220 cms at the turnaround. Snow was still good at time of grooming. March 14th 2024 We have the cat in the parking lot but reports today are there is dirt on some of the trail. Still able to avoid dirt with sleds so we will leave the signs up to hopfully have sleds using the parking lot but we may have to wait for reports on whether we need to move the staging area up.Reports today are that the snow has been sun affected and is somewhat heavy. Goose Creek Trail March 13th 2024 Trail to Frosty Cabin groomed as was the airport trail. We probed 240cms up top with 30cms of powder with a very thin crust up top. Please note this year is different and we are seeing that with the road up to the snowline in rough shape. Trailers not recommended on this side and the first 2km after the cat is not great, we removed the signage so if you see the snow is gone feel free to drive up if you so wish. The 350 has done its last groom on Goose and we may do one more on that trail if temps allow with the 180. Be safe out there as temps are way up and have a good weekend. Ladybird Trail March 7th 2024 Ladybird Trail groomed to 19km cat turn around. All went well with 20cms of fresh and a base of 225cm at 19. There is a pretty good crust at the 30cm depth. Please be aware the bottom of the trail is very thin so the easier you go on it the better is will stand up to the melting. We should also mention that we mark trails to not drive trucks up using weather reports and our best judgement please respect our decisions or contact csasled.org to have some input. Parking in the 3km lot for now. Goose Creek Trail March 8th 2024 Trail Groomed to the Airport with the Br 350. There was 30cms of fresh since the last groom. Unable to get a base number as the probe was in the 180. The 350 is now parked just before the bluffs so please remember its 16ft wide. We usually groom at the near end of the week. Not sure if that makes sense so usually thursday or friday. All good to park up to the sign around 2.5km you may have to ride some dirt soon or unload and move you trucks down as there just is not much room up there other than switch backs. Check that avy report and have a great wekend. Ladybird Trail March3rd 2024
Trail groomed to 19km cat turnaround. Probed 40 fresh and a base of 240cms. Goose Creek Trail Feb 27th 2024 Airport Trail and Frosty Trail groomed. Probed 30cms of fresh with a base of 203cms. Stocked up wood and propane at the Frosty cabin. Dropped off some supplies at the Shaw cabin. Ladybird Trail Feb 28th 2024 With the hopes of snow coming down to the lower elevations we moved cat down to the parking lot at 3km. Unfortunatly we did not get much in the way of white stuff so we held off on the groom, as we had heard it was not to bad. We will decide if it is best to move back up depending on the weather. Please if we put the signs up to not drive up with your trucks they are there in hopes we can try put a trail in, kinda common sense but thought mentioning it might help. Goose Creek Trail March 1st 2024 With lots of fresh in the local mountains we decided it best to get the drag out sooner than later as the 180 struggles with 34cms of fresh. Base was at 240cms up at the airport. Our goal was to use the 350 but just not much snow up to 2kmgood news it was dumping when we got down this evening. Parking should be good at the lot tommorow if you heading out. Please if you have a personal snowcat do not run them up our trails and all over the mountain as the tracks do sink quit deep when conditions are right. They then freeze up and pose a high hazard to sleds, as what happened a few days ago. Thankyou CSA Check the avy reports and be safe out there. |
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