Beautiful afternoon skiing around the lower part of the park. Conditions on the main trails were great with firm classic tracks and the skate lanes looked good as well. I ventured around most every trail I could find below the Notch road making a handful of circuts to explore all I could. I was clearly not alone as hordes of people were out and about enjoying a great day on the trails.

Perhaps the one exception to the generally good conditions was trail 15 which loops up behind Pinks Lake. There the classic grooming was... very well used! For the most part there was really only tracks on the short flat stretches and even there it was pretty well deteriorated. A few rocks sticking up but they were mostly in predictable spots and easy to avoid. While normally a fresh grooming would set things right, I expect running a groomer down this trail will pull up dirt and leaves thanks to the thin snow layer so perhaps nothing to do here but hope for more snow. It was still very skiable even without tracksetting (just a different kind of skiing) so this was a minor inconvenience. The rest of the day was on solid tracks and was fast and easy to ski.