A vehicle that creates cross-country ski trails on Grand Mesa is a 20,000 lbs, $250,000 PistenBully 400 funded by Grand Mesa Nordic Council. This vehicle is often called a groomer or a snowcat.
A widely groomed trail with a corduroy pattern is for skate skiing and parallel tracks on one or both sides of the trail are for classic skiing. Many of the trails exist only in the winter since they are created on top of several feet of snow, and if you look for them in the summer you'll find impenetrable terrain in their place.
Update Wednesday morning, 28 April.
This is it, the end of the extended groomed season. The remainder of the week will be dry with a strong warming trend.
We will groom Wednesday evening, and then the final, slushy groom of the season on Friday evening.
We hope you have enjoyed skiing on the GMNC trails. Keep informed of GMNC off-season business here on our website- gmnc.org. We have some projects for volunteers this summer and big plans for the next season.
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