Photo by Web

Grooming

Trail grooming is 100% paid for by membership fees. If you use these trails in the winter, consider making a donation or becoming a member.

Grooming typically begins toward the end of November, depending on snowfall. Condition reports are sent out via email as soon as possible to current LNSA members. To receive notifications, be sure we have your most up-to-date contact information and that your membership dues are paid for the current season.

Grooming is done through UTVs/ snow machines when snow pack is lower, and with a Pisten Bully if/when there is a sufficient snowpack. Grooming occurs regularly through the winter and typically concludes sometime in March, depending on snowfall and snowpack.

If conditions are windy in the Beaver Creek parking lot, it is highly advisable to walk under the bridge and get up onto the trail system before making a decision. Typically, on the most windy day it is remarkably more calm once you get into the trees and further out onto the course.

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Snowfall data

Fascinated by data? Checkout these observational numbers captured by Groomer Dude Web over the years.

Example Grooming Report:

One of the best perks of LNSA membership is the weekly/daily grooming report. These reports come directly to your inbox to give you the most up-to-date ski conditions at both the Golf Course and Beaver Creek. Check out an example report below:

The Luck o' The Groomer Dudes

Steve regroomed Club House Loop skate lanes this morning. He also include that his memory of latest into March skiing was his first winter of grooming, 1991-1992 (!!!) and he skied on the 14th.

The NE corner slope is melted out, so you'll have to do long "out and backs" but the rest of the skate lanes are skiable. If you're a classic skier, time to pull out the klister!

Web is headed up to BC to refresh the trails. LOTS of skiers there yesterday, who enjoyed really lovely conditions: terrific snow, warm temperatures under sunny skies. What more could you ask for, other than to repeat today?

Meet the Groomer Dudes

Web

My parents put me on skis when I was about 3, I think they wanted me out of the house! Early skiing with cable bindings, leather boots and bamboo poles also involved 'boot and ski packing' the alpine runs. Now I've got better ski and grooming equipment, so I guess I'll stay with it for awhile. Skiing taught me to get back up, and grooming teaches me that the next snowfall will be an opportunity to improve on past mistakes (for better or for worse.) And I don't get a rush from snowshoeing.

Drew

I’ve been a lifelong Alpine, Nordic, and backcountry skier. Cutting my teeth in the Northeast; I like hard snow an technical trails. I started grooming Nordic trails in the early 1980’s in Colorado and have been grooming Lander Nordic trails since the late 90’s. More recently I’ve focused on the golf course trails working with the golf course superintendent to keep the trails off sensitive areas. Grooming trails is an art and science. As I slowly groom at 5mph listening to NPR in the early morning I contemplate the effects of pressure and temperature metamorphosis on the snow and adjust the grooming as best I can in search of perfect tracks and corduroy.

Mysterious and dangerous just like a yeti

Steve

Bio likely never coming

SVO

Scott received an early start to the tillage arts at age 14, in the cab of a 4WD tractor with a 16 foot disc in the fields around Milesville SD. He moved to Lander in 1998 and became more involved with nordic skiing. After following Web around like a puppy and becoming a LNSA board member he finally got his chance to be a groomer in January 2019. As a groomer of the golf course he is currently underemployed.