We groomed the Banadad Trail again today (it finally got warm enough to do so); Again only 1st 12km of Trail groomed (from the East End Trailhead). 1 1/2 feet of snow in the woods 8-10" base only small amount of new snow in the recent cold snap. See Pictures for this afternoon below 1/29/2026 1/29/2026 1/29/2026

See Pictures below Moose tracks on trail; skis image for scale Zoomed in on footprints

Trail groomed from East End Trailhead West 10-12km Good conditions 8" base, 1.5' in the woods, 6" of powder in last 36 hours See pictures below from yesterday. 1/17/2026 1/17/2026

Our groomers just completed grooming the 1st 10km of the Banadad Trail. The trail is cleared, packed and groomed from the East End Trailhead for skiing West for 10 km; Single track, classic. The East End Trailhead parking lot is plowed for parking. Snow conditions 20 inch snow depth; 6 inch base 3 inch snowfall last 24 hrs. This is the same section we had opened last year. We worked very hard clearing to open this section. The downfall has been very difficult and we

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For our Trail insurance carrier we have agreed to post this sign at each Trailhead to inform possible users that they are skiing at their own risk Another new Trailhead sign

Trail Clearing example "before" Trail clearing "after" We have spent many crew hours working on getting the Trail ready for the 2025-2026 season We have had serious trail clearing problems with downfall. We have cleared sections many times over. Over 20 crew days clearing. We have the 1st 12km (from the East End going West, cleared) and 7km from the West End cleared heading East. See map That leaves about 8 km that is uncleared and will not be open for the 2025-2026 sea

It snowed yesterday and today our grooming team did another wonderful job grooming the 1st 10 km of the Banadad Trail, starting at the...

Our Most Excellent Grooming team just now completed grooming (single track Nordic) Banadad Trail. (1st km from the East End Trailhead....

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We groomed today 20-28" in snow depth in the woods and 6-8" trail base. See pictures below from today 2/7/2025 2/7/2025 Skiers on trail...

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One of our Banadad Team was out skiing the trail today and encountered lots of other skiers who were very happy with the conditions and...

From a skier yesterday via the Banadad.org "Thanks - the trail was great the afterfoon! -Sent from my iPhone Skier submitted picture...

Today we groomed (single track Nordic) the 1st 10km of the Banadad Trail. Come ski with us! Picture from today below 1/29/2025

Yesterday we groomed the Banadad and today we skied it and got some pictures. We got about 2 to 3 inches of new snow. We’re expecting...

Groomers were busy this morning on the Banadad Pictures below Solid 4 inch hard base 8 inches new snow We added weights to the tracker to...

At Eastern Trailhead looking West Skiing the Banadad Trail 1/11/2025

Jan 10, 2025 Today our groomers were busy, we got 2" of snow dusting and went to work. With our second snowmobile now operational, we...

Banadad's new roller/compactor Here we are setting up our new roller/compactor; this came with a Grant from the North Star Ski Touring...