The New PistenBully

The New PistenBully

Nov 26, 2019 | Grooming, Trails

The Mat-Su Ski Club’s newly-acquired 2006 PistenBully 100 has arrived. We are using it to groom at Independence Mine at Hatcher Pass. As the snowline moves down from the alpine, so will the PB. It will spend most of the winter at GPRA. Besides helping prevent...

The Club was Busy Last Summer

Sep 26, 2019 | Grooming, Trails, Volunteers

Volunteers did a fair amount of trail maintenance and improvement at GPRA between ski seasons.  A few days of heavy equipment work accomplished a lot: building a clever new cut-through that includes part of the Matanuska Loop into the homologated race loops, along...

Recap of 2018-2019 Grooming of Nordic Ski Trails

Sep 16, 2019 | Grooming, Volunteers

The 2018-19 grooming season lasted 197 days. (Compared to 226 days last season) Our grooming season started on Oct 29th at both Independence Mine and GPRA; and ended on May 14th, back at Independence Mine. We would have continued grooming for another week or two, but...