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active 5 days, 11 hours agoL Hanson posted an update in the group
Birds Hill Provincial Park 5 days, 12 hours agoSkied bluestem onto esker onto chickadee onto bluestem. Trails were in good condition and the debris was no worse than it’s been most of the winter. The parking lot was full and of course that means a few entitled twits who read the sign and decided it doesn’t apply to them.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 2 weeks, 3 days agoThanks to the park staff for posting a new and hard-to-ignore sign that prohibits walking and suggests alternative hiking trails. The GUR still has some loose snow on it from the weekend but it’s still moderately fast.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 3 weeks, 1 day agoBeautifully groomed, perfect temperature. Conditions are great.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 3 weeks, 2 days agoClassic and skating trails are in decent condition. The new snow has been packed by skiers on the classic trails, but even on the skating trails where there is a bit of loose snow, conditions are moderately fast. Grooming is scheduled for Friday.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 4 weeks, 1 day agoTrails were freshly groomed on Friday. The crud that had blown onto the trails has been buried, and the fresh cordoroy and warm conditions made skating on the GUR fast
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 1 month agoI skied Aspen at about noon on Tuesday. All the trails had been recently groomed, and aside from some tree litter and localized drifting, were in great condition. Thanks Park staff.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 1 month agoFriday at noon we skied chickadee, esker, and the GUR. Conditions were about as good as we get, with a bit of a mist that should harden up the few soft spots on the interior loops.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 1 month, 3 weeks agoAt about noon on Tuesday the GUR had 20 or 30 skiers on it and no walkers. (There were a few footprints, however.) It had been groomed for skating, but was still on the soft side. With a temperature of -14, conditions were on the slow side. The two internal bays had also been groomed, but they appeared to be quite slow.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 2 months agoSkated the GUR on Thursday afternoon. It had 2-3 cm of packed snow but not enough to groom properly. All the other trails I saw had been packed with a snowmobile but not tracked. Think snow.
the problem is the GUR wasn’t initially done correctly by snowmobile. The CENTER needs to be run over several times by a snowmobile not just once, to pack it down. Now there where two tire tracks there before , the snowmobile went over the center, so now there is not a uniform density on the trail. Along with all the footwalkers making a mess, a…[Read more]
Ahhh good to know.. there went my weekend plan.. Windsor it is.. except Environment Canada is calling +2 and +3 for the weekend… I knew I should have sucked it up and went to Silverstar…
The GUR is in good shape( Friday afternoon). Slowly getting firmer by other skaters and even the warm weather for the weekend wont harm it much. The ground is too cold and the suns rays are too low, so will be really good skiing this weekend and into Christmas.
True… only problem is its gonna be the sidewalk for the hikers….
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 2 months, 1 week agoOn Monday afternoon Aspen was still skier-packed but decent. A snowmobile had packed a base for the GUR and had begun doing esker. Conditions are improving every day. Thanks Park staff.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 10 months, 4 weeks agoLate morning Sunday, the GUR was fast and not icy at all. By about one PM it was beginning to get softer and skating was getting slower. There are still no bare spots. The parts of the classic trails that I could see appeared to be skiable but I didn’t see any classic skiers.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 11 months agoOn Thursday at around noon, the GUR had softened enough that skating was fast and offered some control. Still no bare spots. The classic trails appeared to be decent.
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Birds Hill Provincial Park 11 months agoSkated on the GUR late morning and found it quite icy to begin, so I cut onto Aspen for a few kilometers. By about noon, the road had softened somewhat and skating was fast. Still no bare spots and not too much damage from walkers.
Anita & I agree … except for the section on east Bluestem that already has divots from a dog walker.
The Group Use Road today is the best skate track I’ve been on all winter … and I’ve been skate skiing since November 13.