Author: Roger Janes

Mark the date. Saturday, October 31, 9-13. Trail Work Day..need not stay all day. We have some specific projects but if you want to just walk the trails near the lodge and pick up sticks, that works as well. Lunch will be served so please let us know if you will attend. rmjanes1@hotmail.com or call… Continue reading Trail Day Oct. 31

What a year!  From November.    To Saturday April 5th.    We have been blessed with good snow.   Good friends..  Good fun…Good skiing!      We leave you with this message… Thanks so much for coming and sharing this wonderful experience. Until we meet again. Your friends at…   

tis the time of year when the white whiskered wizards and the knobby kneed gnomes come and visit the wild woods. They come to meet with the freckled fairies (not to be confused with the fair fairies over the glen near the glade) to tell winter stories, tales of wonderous storms with whipping winds and… Continue reading Shhhh. It’s a secret…

it’s worth the drive! We groomed this morning on the lodge side to top dress the skating lanes. Where we went, there is an inch and a half of granular, level and quick. Everywhere else is brutal hard.   We will add a couple more miles this morning  and call it a day.  It’s officially… Continue reading Sunday Morning

looks like last weekend……the “R” word tomorrow followed by a beautiful cool Sunday with lots of beautiful snow. Trails are open for your skiing pleasure. Is it true that spring skiing is the best? Could it be similar to the attempt to recapture moments of a misspent youth as someone fades into middle something. We… Continue reading This weekend update

Is there any correlation between the glass being half full versus half empty and the role of superstition?  One could argue that the pessimistic mind is more prone to negative thinking and therefore more apt to dwell on the possibility of increased risk caused by black cats, broken mirrors and foreboding dates and numbers.  The… Continue reading Friday the 13th.

March 10th. Is Saint David’s day, a national day of holiday in Wales. Saint David was a fifth century cleric, who became the patron saint of Wales. The most famous story of Saint David is that he was preaching to a large crowd of people and the ground is said to have risen up so… Continue reading Cymru am byth “Wales for ever”

Wildcat Picture Time..check out the blue sky…amazing day! Hot dogs and games on the trail. End of a Spectacular Day! Got snow

There will be skiing Saturday. That being said, when the guys turned the sleds off at 5 P.M., there was nothing left to do. Each snowflake had been properly oriented to its rightful place in the universe. Track is set. Skate lanes, wide and level, reach out in all directions simultaneously.  Tomorrow, the sun will… Continue reading Saturday ski prediction.