Conditions for December 12, 2020

Prepare yourself for a seriously weird day. It would be nice if the temperature and winds stayed in our favour but I am not sure if we will have much luck. They are calling for freezing rain most of morning. No great for driving or scraping cars but it is better for the trails since freezing rain will accumulate. Then we switch to rain around noon 😕. Saying all that Chanse says “things arent too bad out there”. The trails are holding up! He didn’t put a new track in as it would get too mushy but the track from Thursday is holding on. Trails will be soft, but skiers were coming back happy yesterday. Maybe we are getting the Spring skiing now we missed in March 🤔. PLEASE DO NOT walk on the ski trails. Even with snowshoes you can leave a lot of damage. Please only snowshoe on the snowshoe trails. You know what they say happy groomer, happy life. We need to keep Chanse happy, and holes in his skis trails do not make him happy. Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Millennium Loop and Teals Tango are open! You still won’t need to use your rock skis, there is good coverage through the network.

Since weather is questionable this weekend we are going to hold off on lessons and rentals this weekend. Please be patient with us! We are moving into Red on Monday so we do need to figure out some logistics to make sure everything can run smoothly and safely.

Remember to please respect opening hours. The trails open at 8:30 in the morning, we ask people to start coming off the trails at 4:30 so we are close up the building at 5. We plan to start the night skiing in the New Year. 

You MUST wear a mask while in the building. Note that a wet buff coming in from skiing is not an effective mask. Please keep one handy when you go out for a ski for your return. 

Make sure you read our COVID Winter Policies before attending. Please note for right now we won’t be offering lessons or rentals. We need to get ourselves a little more organized. It is not as straight forward this year! Remember we ask you use your vehicle as your base and do not leave bags in the building. Please limit your time inside to 15 minutes. 

We know there are a couple of tweeks we need to figure out with the contact tracing. Please be patient with us as we work through it. It is a new system for everyone, and we may be to figure out a few things as we go. We have a back up paper copy as an option as well. 

Contact Tracing and Active Screening must be done the for everyone coming onto the property the day they will be visiting. You cannot do this the night before. You can complete a form online. We request that you complete this before you show up. Note that cell service may not be good enough to do this onsite. Once the screening and tracing is complete you will receive an email that you will need to show at our health check station before you can head out to ski. Take a screen shot of your contact tracing so it is easy to find once you arrive! If the email you receive has comes back red, it mean you have answered YES to one of the screen questions. In that case you are NOT able to ski at our location that day. If the email you receive comes back green, we will see you on the trails shortly! 

We have a paper copy that can be done in person as a back up. 

Click here to contact trace. This must be completed every day you come skiing!

Our conditions texting update program is back! We update the conditions page every morning, but sometimes things change through the day. With this program updates will come directly to you as a text. No app download required. Your phone number will not be shared. These updates are not to replace checking the conditions page, but to update you on changes through the day. Send you cell phone number to ski@highlandsnordic.ca