This week we groomed out to Bone Springs, both sides of Jubilee Rd, Skyline, Elk Trail, Powerline, and through Morning Creek Snow Park, Spout Springs to Woodland Snow Park to the top of the hill, back Pole trail. Last Saturday morning I did make it down to the Chalet and back and out to Baldy and back. We have been working on the 98 this week, 13 hours of labor so far to get it back in runnable shape. We still have work left to do on it, electrical and tracks. It was a tough week grooming with warm temperatures and just a small window of below freezing temperatures in the very early morning hours. But with both cats working, we did get 110 miles of grooming done this week. There is rain and snow in the forecast starting tonight with warm temperatures until Sunday. Next week looks like cold temperatures and new snow coming so it should be a better grooming week.
January grooming statistics
For January 2019, we have the following stats to report. We were unable to groom for over 10 days due to warm temperatures and rain the first part of January.
500 miles groomed
78 hours of grooming
496 gallons of fuel burned
10 trees removed from the trail
20 hours maintenance done on both CATS
1164 miles driven to/from the mountain by groomer operators
22 hours driving time by those operators to get to the grooming shed.
Thanks for the continuing support of our volunteer groomer drivers.
Jess, TTF grooming chairman