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Anchorage XC Trails Report
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APU Mahaffey Trail System
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Mon, 2/8/10
Marc reports that APU trails are snow machine packed and
groomed. No tracks yet.
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Bartlett Trails
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No updates since this weekend’s snow.
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Hillside Park
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Monday, 2/8/10
Tom is grooming right now so there is somewhere for the
high school team to practice. He will
be back out tonight to groom the rest of the park.
Inquiring Minds
Need to Know: We’ve recently
received a few inquiries regarding the grooming schedule out at the Hillside.
Basically some folks want to know why the groomer is out earlier in
the evening/late afternoon rather than late at night. Well, what it boils down to is that the Hillside trails are used so heavily by mid-day users
and the high school teams in the afternoon that they are getting beaten up
before the after work skiers get a chance to get out there. So Tom, the perfectionist, has been
grooming the Hillside not once, but twice a
day. He heads out after the high
school teams to try to spiff up the trails for the evening crowd and then he
comes back later in the night to go over the trails again.
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Kincaid Park
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Monday - 2/8/10
By mid-day today the crew had finished up the lighted loop, the
Horseshoe, the Lake loop and the multi-use
trail. Kincaid did not get buried in
snow last night.
Sisson Loop
Warning: Watch for equipment on the Sisson Loop (northern part of north
loop) coming out of the airport and crossing the Coastal Trail at the blue
footbridge. Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game will be working all week cleaning
up an old dump. Trail traffic may be stopped for a few
minutes while we cross.
Jodhpur Lights:
Per MOA Facility Maintenance: This area of lighting has
been determined to be a severe electrical hazard and life safety issue and will
be shut down entirely until the spring/summer of 2010 at the very least.
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Eagle
River –
Chugiak
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Monday - 2/8/10
Bill went out this morning and groomed the new snow at Beach Lake.
It came out nicely. This evening he will groom Mirror
Lake, Gruening, and Eagle River.
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MOA Maintained Multi-Use Trails
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MOA
Trail Status Report Last week, we
heard from one of our NSAA members on Friday that the Chester Creek Trail and
the Coastal Trail were nicely groomed, making for a beautiful cross town
ski. He did report that the tunnels
before Westchester Lagoon were a bit thin on snow, so don’t go barreling into
the tunnels!
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Chugiak
State Park
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Remember these trails are multi-use – walkers, runners, and
dogs are welcome there.
If you are skiing in Chugach State Park,
remember that the trails are multi-use trails and that dogs are allowed off
leash 100 feet from the parking lot. Be courteous and beware!
Cars need a current State Park sticker or plan to pay the $5 daily Park
fee. Park stickers are for sale at AMH, REI, and Sportsman’s Warehouse.
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Other trails in Anchorage, Eagle
River and Matsu
Areas
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Tony Knowles Coastal Trail - Groomed
by Municipality
of Anchorage
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MOA Status Report
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Chester Creek Trail - Groomed by Municipality of Anchorage
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MOA Status Report
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Russian Jack Trails
- Groomed by Municipality
of Anchorage
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MOA Status Report
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Eagle River / Chugiak Trails - Local taxes
paid by Eagle River and Chugiak residents provide funding to Eagle River Parks
and Recreation for the maintenance of the Eagle River/Chugiak trails. Parks
and Recreation has contracted NSAA to maintain these trails. For more
information about Eagle
River Parks
and Recreation check out the link to the right.
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Eagle River Parks & Rec
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Mat-Su area Trails - Mat-Su
Borough's On-Line Trail Guide
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Mat Su Trail Conditions
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Comments and Trail Etiquette:
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 COMMENTS:
Thanks for your ongoing support of the grooming by NSAA!
It takes $$ to groom. Please become a member
today!
TRAIL ETIQUETTE:
Please do not ski behind the grooming machine until the
snow is hard.
Please do not take dogs on the groomed ski trails, use
the multi-use trails.
Please be courteous to non-skiers on the multi-use
trails.
Please remove wind blown debris from the trails.
Please do not ski across the set diagonal tracks.
If you see vandalism out on the trail, please report it
to the police.
MORE Etiquette Tips
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