The Headwaters Trails Alliance has been busy grooming community trails on a rotating schedule. As of February 10, grooming most recently was done on the Lunch loops and Fraser River Trail from county road 8 to Rendezvous, Givelo and Northwest passage. The Fraser River Trail is also well groomed from Trademark condos near the Winter Park Ski resort to Rendezvous, though use caution where the trail passes through the Highway 40 tunnel, as the tunnel is dark, there is thin snow coverage and ice chunks are on the trail from highway plowing at either end. Also groomed earlier this week were the Fraser valley Ballfields and the Fraser to Granby trail from the Ballfields to Val Moritz. With these trails freshly groomed, an adventurous skier could connect a route on groomed snow from the Winter Park Resort all the way to Granby Ranch.
It feels like we are in the depths of winter, and since it’s late arrival, winter has proven to be steadfast and true to stereotypical seasonal expectations. We have not seen any large accumulations of snow, but consistently cold temperatures and occasional small additions to the snowpack have kept the surface fresh. Older deeper layers in the snowpack have become a bit sugary, but not as largely granular as we see with the larger daily fluctuations in temperature that can be common in this dry sub-alpine air. One might say it’s been more like winters past, with temperatures in the valley dipping down to 30 below or colder more often than once. Trails have remained well-covered and well-packed with old tracks remaining evident for weeks.
So get out there and enjoy the trails!
