Just passing on the following report, that originated with the NCC, regarding the groomer situation:

Once again, we are dealing with technical problems with our equipment. The biggest groomer, which takes care of the parkways, is out of service. This time, the problem is major and it will be out of service for at least two weeks. Another groomer of similar size will replace it, starting next Monday. This type and size of machinery is pretty hard to come by mid winter!



In an objective to resolve this issue, the grooming team has come up with a plan. For the North Western part of the Park, grooming resumes as usual. For the Southern part, they will wait until tomorrow morning before beginning so that snow accumulates:



-One of the smaller machines will go out with a compaction roller of 16 feet wide and will focus on the Parkways, all day, and possibly also Friday night;



-Two snowmobiles will replace this machine on its usual run (#3 and #36) to insure good compaction of the trails and to maximize the use of the new fallen snow. These two trails won’t have tracks tomorrow during the day;



-Once the work is done on the parkways, another operator will take this machine and compact and trackset trails #3 and #36.



For all the other trails, grooming stays the same as usual and everything should be groomed and trackset by the end of the day Friday