jANUARY 28, 2026 FSA Grooming Report
CONDITIONS:
This morning temperatures are -4°C at cabin elevation with light winds. 0cm amounts of new snow overnight. 5cm new snow in the past 7 days. Total snowpack heights are around 198cm.
Note: Earlier last week we had moist snow up to cabin elevation. Temps have returned to hard refreeze overnight which has left a crust in most riding areas. The grooming is mint right now but it’s ‘scratchers down’ kind of conditions out there friends! Get out there and enjoy the sunshine!
Today: Cloudy with a few sunny breaks and a 60% chance of flurries. Minor accumulation possible, 0 to 2 cm. Windy at times. High -2 or -3.
Tonight: Cloudy with a few clear breaks and a 40% chance of flurries. Low -4 or -5.
GROOMING:
Corbin: Groomed from the staging area to the McClatchie Jan 23.
Coal Creek: Variable conditions on lower trail up to about 1540m (Paige’s Draw) - few spots with open water or ice in lower sections (image below). Coal Creek and Martin groomed last night. Doug Dean, Summit Trail, groomed yesterday and still had corduroy.
Morrissey: Staging area to 1540m (graffiti rock) has variable conditions. Morrissey, North Pipeline and McEvoy groomed yesterday and still had corduroy.
Hartley: Trail last groomed Jan 10th - note there has been considerable challenges this year with blowdown and windfall from timber harvesting activities and storms. It seems each week, when we go out to groom, there are a significant number of new trees down. The FSA has invested more than 100hours at this point clearing trees from the trail since mid-December. We are anticipating being able to groom from the staging area to the East Fork of the Sulphur this week after a final push late last week to remove the last of the trees blocking and overhanging the trail.
Ram: Open. No grooming.
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