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October snow in Poland : Here are some photos former Team NordicSkiRacer Andre Kurkowski sent of snowfall in Poland on October 16, 2009!

October snow in Poland

Here are some photos former Team NordicSkiRacer Andre Kurkowski sent o ...

Updated: Oct 28, 2009 5:47pm PST

09 Ski season at Huron Meadows Metropark : Photos by Huron Meadows Metropark photographer Denise Semion during the 2009 winter.

09 Ski season at Huron Meadows Metropark

Photos by Huron Meadows Metropark photographer Denise Semion during th ...

Updated: Aug 30, 2009 6:04pm PST

Easter time ski at Stokley : Spring time in the Algoma Highlands has been spectactular for the past two months!! Plenty of sunshine, clean fresh snow, blue skies, and superb grooming. Stokley Creek continued their grooming operations until the Ski The Lakes Weekend in March. Mary and I were fortunate to have been able to ski most weekends on the trails during the past month. The past weekend, Easter Sunday we ventured back for one last season closing day trip. With the lodge closed we had the trails to our selves. They were 100% snow covered beyond the lodge, with well over a two foot base in most areas. Starting out at 11:00am from the parking lot, the snow was still crusted over, but the warming sunshine and windless day would soon loosen up the snow for a perfect day of skate skiing the upper lakes. The Peterson trail out to Bone Lake and the warming hut at Norms cabin was exceptionally firm, and fast. With a short break at the warming hut at noon, we headed out on the Pickard Lake trail shaded from the north slope remained firm and fast. We took the new trail heading north on the logging road for a quick 2K run which led over to Sayer Lake and the upper lakes of Bella and Evans. The short trail on the east side of Sayer was starting to melt off in the days of ongoing sunshine. The view above Bella to the west and the Haviland Bay area of Superior was clear, blue skies and the sounds of running water as the sunshine worked the upper iced ridges. The ski around Bella over to Evans lake found a few blow downs that required stepping out of the skies and into the knee deep snow. We headed back on the main Walker lake trail and took the cut over in the valley below the King Mountain cabin inorder to avoid home run hill, which was burning off in the afternoon sun. skiing back along the raging waters of Stokely Creek brought us back out behind the lodge and return to the parking lot at 4pm. Amazingly enough the snow remained firm but for the inch or so of corn snow made by the mid afternoon temps in the upper 30F, to lower 40F. The skiing will remain super over the coming week as the night time temps continue to lock up the melt and with no rain, erosion of the snow base will be minimal. We will end this season on a super memory of the Sunday Easter ski at Stokely 2009!!

Easter time ski at Stokley

Spring time in the Algoma Highlands has been spectactular for the past ...

Updated: Apr 14, 2009 6:57am PST

2008-12-06/07 Skiing at Hanson Hills : Superb skiing!

2008-12-06/07 Skiing at Hanson Hills

Superb skiing!

Updated: Dec 07, 2008 5:38pm PST

2008-12-07 Skiing at Michaywe : Early season skiing at Michaywe. Michaywe frequently has skiable snow into April!

2008-12-07 Skiing at Michaywe

Early season skiing at Michaywe. Michaywe frequently has skiable snow ...

Updated: Dec 07, 2008 5:07pm PST

2008-11-29 Forbush Corner skiing : Skiing at Forbush Corner - the best early snow ever?

2008-11-29 Forbush Corner skiing

Skiing at Forbush Corner - the best early snow ever?

Updated: Nov 30, 2008 4:45pm PST

2008-11-17 Big Snow in Bellaire : Son Glenn Goodman Cross Country skiing from the house. Dog in hunting mode back of our house under blue is firewood for winter. This is about 8 inches of what is called lake Effect. Water vapor from the great lakes deposited on the land. Takes water from the lakes so does not add. MI is trying to put up a fence or wall to block escape of the vapors. Photos by Arnold Goodman

2008-11-17 Big Snow in Bellaire

Son Glenn Goodman Cross Country skiing from the house. Dog in hunting ...

Updated: Nov 17, 2008 5:03pm PST

2008-07-20 Skiing in Park Falls, Australia : Michal Trnka and daughter Anna training at Park Falls Australia. Received 50 cm of New Snow this week and more is on the way. (Photos from Joe Gollinger)

2008-07-20 Skiing in Park Falls, Australia

Michal Trnka and daughter Anna training at Park Falls Australia. Recei ...

Updated: Jul 20, 2008 5:58am PST

2008-05-08 Roller skiing down in Victoria Australia : Photos provide by Joe Gollinger.

2008-05-08 Roller skiing down in Victoria Australia

Photos provide by Joe Gollinger.

Updated: May 08, 2008 3:39am PST

2008-03-27 Black Mountain groomed and ready : Jim Meyer Sr. says: Groomed the trails this a.m. You wouldn't believe how beautiful all the trails & hills are again.......for now, until Sunday afternoon when it warms up again probably (?). Anyway, I'll go re-scuff the skate lanes late tomorrow night for the weekend skiers.....me & some of the others for sure. I took some pictures, including on the way down & back to the far bottom end parking lot. The whole thing is nicely skatable now, I got it widened out & good tracks set today. Wish you guys could be here, but that's the way the mop flops. I'm heading for Petoskey, at Dad's overnight in half an hour, I didn't get to ski either today....grrrr. Anyway, here's what things look like out there today----( I had soup & coffee only afterwards....)

2008-03-27 Black Mountain groomed and ready

Jim Meyer Sr. says: Groomed the trails this a.m. You wouldn't belie ...

Updated: Mar 27, 2008 3:58pm PST

2007-12-01 Early Season Snow at Hanson Hills :

2007-12-01 Early Season Snow at Hanson Hills

Updated: Dec 01, 2007 5:37pm PST