Shortly after noon there was still lots of parking left in P7. My route was P7=>#30=>#8=>#11=>#17=>#1=>#8=#17=>#31=>#30=>P7. Its a question of days before the backcountry trails become more hazardous, although still skiable, small creeks, ditches are starting to open up, a few rocks are starting to show.

It was the first time I decided to ski #8 from P7, usually I ski it from Ridge road coming back to P7. The first part close to the house in the woods had a few ditches opening up, see my first 2 pictures, but the worst was some idiot had decided to go for a hike and as you can see in the third pic had made quite large deep boot marks on the trail, this continued all the way up the first hill, after that he must of gave up and turned around.

I skied a short part of Trail #11 (merry go round) the only part that didnt suffer any tree damage, between the intersection with #17 up to #8. When I arrived on Ridge was surprised to see they had Groomed it, as with #30 also.

I also agree with Ron, the NCC website needs a makeover, there seems to be a big time lapse from when the Groomers report goes back to the visitor centre, For example a trail could of been groomed at 12 and wont be reported until after 3 pm. On top of that they have a separate Classic and Skating trail reporting , but most of the trails are duplicated on both sections.

Hopefully with tonight's cold temperatures there will be some grooming overnight or early tomorrow morning.