Mountain Trails Grooming Association

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Welcome to the Mountain Trails Grooming Association website. We have finally received enough snow to get the groomer on some trails. Please be aware every trail has hazards, eg. trees down, water on the trail/road, and/or washout areas. Ride with caution, be safe and turn around if you are not comfortable with the trail. We are working as fast as possible with our small crew to clear the trails. If you carry a saw, feel free to help cut trees. The grooming schedule is evolving as we can get trails open. You can view the schedule by clicking on the Schedule tab.

1/3 Trail Condition Update

All of our trails were impacted by the winter storms resulting in lots of trees down making many of them impassable. Water has been freely flowing over the roads and eroding edges of the trails. With current lower temperatures we are seeing less water flow. Ride with caution and be safe!

Boulder SP – Groomed to Roger Lake Y. Low snow depth of 6” – 8”. Not enough snow to build the berm from the snopark to the trailhead or to fill the cattle guards. The trail to Baldy Pass is clear but ungroomed. The county is not grooming from the other side because of low snow conditions and trees down.

Cub Creek TH(new) - Trail up the 100 road is clear and ungroomed to the intersection to Cub Pass.

Eightmile SP -

Eightmile to Sweetgrass – Groomed. There has been water over the road and it has narrowed the road in the Ortell area. Sherwood Forest has trees down and is not groomed.

Cub Pass & Banker Pass – are open and groomed.

Chewuch Loop – Not groomed. Snow depth is 10”. Lots of trees down but the have been cut up on the West side and on the East side above the ford. There are trees needing cut below the ford.

Goat Creek SP – Groomed. Grooming was done to Blackpine Hut, Goat Peak TH, the Beaver slide, Whiteface, Vanderpool crossing and Banker Pass. Goat has open access to Eightmile trails. Whiteface Creek has created a large ravine that is now covered with a snow bridge – ride with caution in this area.

Silver Star SP – Not groomed. Hwy 20 to the snopark opened on 1/2, a grooming date has not been set.

Twisp River Area – Tree removal has begun. The crew ran into a couple areas of slides, washouts and big rocks on the South side of the river making it impassable above the first bridge. Good progress was made on the North side in getting all the trees cut. We will need a couple more days to complete the portion of the trail that can be groomed this season.

Poorman Creek TH – conditions are unknown to Black Pine Lake, Buttermilk and Libby Creek.

Yellow Jacket SP – Not groomed. Good snow depth has been reported along with lots of trees down in the trail. There has been lots of water also reported on the trail.

Harts Pass – Not groomed. Reports of slides and washout between Robinson and Monument trails and again at Cache Creek. Trail is challenging but passable with enough snow.

Twisp River

Banker Pass

Twisp River

Eightmile-Ortell

1/2 Grooming Report

Lower Boulder Creek is open and groomed

Finally a picture of a groomed trail without a bunch of downed trees! We groomed the Boulder Creek trail today to Roger Lake Y. The county is not grooming from the other side because of low snow conditions and trees down. There was not enough snow to build the berm from the snopark to the trailhead but the road is covered with a thick layer of compact snow. Snow depth is pretty shallow in Boulder, 6" to 8" in the lower section below Roger Lake Y so we were not able to fill the cattle guards; ride with caution in these areas. The trees and rocks have been removed from the trail, now it just needs more snow.

12/31 Banker Pass is Open!

Goat Creek to Sweetgrass is open!

The woodcutting crew opened the 5200 road over Banker Pass today and the groomer was able to groom from Goat Creek SP to Eightmile SP.

A big thank you to Zach, Andrew and Chris for all their hard work along with our groomer Mitch and Dave.

12/29 Grooming Update

Goat Creek is open!

The Goat Creek trail is open. The woodcutting crew and groomer made it to Blackpine Hut, Goat Peak(beaver slide), and Whiteface. The trail is rough in spots and there is a snow bridge in Whiteface Creek. Ride with caution in that area and down the beaver slide.

A big thanks to Bud Stevie and Mike McHugh for cutting many trees yesterday including a 3 footer on Goat Wall.

The groomer is out again today with a woodcutting crew working from Whiteface to Banker Pass where another large tree is down.

Large tree in Goat Wall area

Bud and Mike - 5 trees so far

Whiteface Creek

Snow bridge on Whiteface Creek

12/28 Trail Condition Update

Boulder SP - Not groomed. 2 trees down but passable. There is a big tree down at Tiffany. The trail to Baldy Pass is clear.

Cub Creek TH(new) - Trail up the 100 road is clear and ungroomed to Cub Pass. The trail from Cub Pass to Sweetgrass is groomed.

Eightmile SP -

Eightmile to Sweetgrass – After 2 days of excavator work removing 40 plus trees the trail to Sweetgrass is open and groomed! There has been water over the road and it has narrowed the road in the Ortell area. Sherwood Forest has 3 trees down and is not groomed

Chewuch Loop – Not groomed. Lots of trees down on the East side, unknown conditions on the West side.

Goat Creek SP – Not groomed. Lots of trees down with large trees down on Goat Wall and one just East of Banker Pass. A crew will be in on Monday 12/29, to begin removing the downed trees.

Silver Star SP – Not groomed. Currently SR 20 is closed from Early Winters to Silver Star SP. Selland is working on clearing the road.

Twisp River Area – Not groomed. Twisp River has a lot of downed trees. Skiers have cut narrow access through many of them. Conditions are unknown at this time for the Poorman Creek area.