Grand Beach Provincial Park

From Edward Zwingerman on Saturday afternoon:
Skied Beaver, Squirrel and Boulder today. Snow conditions were ideal even though there has not been grooming for a while. Classic skiing trails were fast but the skate skiing looked pretty rough. The Beaver trail after the hut wasn’t great and a sign at the end of the trail says it’s closed? Everyone…[Read more]

Grand Beach has received just a bit of snow since the last grooming, but plenty of folks were out skiing it down today. The snow was fast and the classic tracks are holding up well. The classic grooming is much improved since our last visit. It was all nice smooth curves, with none of those sharp zigs that suddenly kick you off to the side that I…[Read more]

Fresh grooming Thursday, Feb 24th reported by the Province.

Skied the fresh powder at Grand Beach Sat afternoon. Thursday’s grooming is pretty much buried. It’s been a real challenge for the groomers to trade to keep up this year

Lots of snow but no grooming on any trails. I broke trail today on the Lester Beach access trail. Beaver trail to the pond has no ski tracks. Hope the groomer gets fixed soon!

Great ski today! Everything is in decent condition but a few CMS of fresh snow on the skate sections. Beaver pond is only groomed up to the hut at the pond. Skiers have tracked it after that. Thank you trail Blazers!!

From Ed Zingerman on Saturday evening:
Skied Beaver, Squirrel, and Boulder. Lots of fluffy snow. Not recently groomed, skier tracked but with lots of traffic conditions very good for classic. Not great for skate skiers. Hills were great with powder conditions. North part of Beaver closed past the hut but some skiers have been on it. All in all…[Read more]

From Mark Sinclair, Grand Beach Park Manager, on Saturday afternoon:
Our groomer broke down while grooming on Friday.
A minimal amount of trails were groomed.
Hopefully we can have it up and running early this coming week.

Lots of snow on top of Thursday’s grooming but there is now a well skied in skier track.

Classic skied GB on Monday and agree with Andy’s report. Just want to add that the Beaver Pond trail is only groomed up to the north warming hut (which is closed due to covid), where the groomer made a loop around the hut and went back the way he came.

From Andy Dwilow on Sunday afternoon:
Classic skied Grand Beach today. The single classic track was chiselled, firm, and fast – excellent! Terrain and course layout – world class!
The skate ski lane was, for the most part, soft, rutted, and uneven, with periodic areas of something pink (engine or hydraulic oil?) on it – poor! Interestingly, I…[Read more]

The day has finally come. Grand has been groomed and has tons of snow. Very good conditions !

There had been about 3 inches of fresh snow on the well groomed track. Slow going but beautiful.
Needs Skiers!

Skied Grand beach this afternoon. Excellent classic track. It took about 15-20 minutes till my fingers warmed up and then was excellent. There s a skate track but no tracks on it, classic was fun. Thanks to the groomers

A friend and I skied from Lester Beach to squirrel trail and back today. Lots of snow, very slow but no debris at all. Excited for the groomer to go through again! Does anyone else think the trail closed sign at beaver pond should be at the beginning of the trail and not at the end? Maybe they won’t need to close it at all this year.

From Mark Sinclair, Grand Beach Park Manager, on Thursday at noon:
Grand Beach ski trails have been cleaned and are groomed with a minimal snow cover.
We need to get a good snowfall before they will be in great shape.
Have a happy holiday season.

A light snow has improved the Grand Beach classic ski track. Still early season ski conditions.
The skate ski base looks soft and there is still some debris on it but people were still out skate skiing. Also the odd footprint has brought debris, sand or stones within eyesight.
One more snow and grooming should again improve the ski trail…[Read more]

Skied Grand Beach today. Parts of beaver, squirrel, and boulder. Surprised how skiable the track actually was. Not machine groomed but the skiier groomed track was fair with some debris but no real rocks exposed. The debris didn’t stick to my skiis like in the warmer weather. The beaver pond part of the beaver trail was closed. We did the classic…[Read more]

Did I have fun at Grand Beach yesterday? Yes. Is the skiing here an absolute gong show right now? Also yes.

In my view, recent reports underestimate the amount of debris on the trails. Twigs and needles are pretty much constant; branches and logs are regular. We are going to need a LOT more snow to bury this stuff deep enough that it won’t just b…[Read more]