Kongsberger Ski Club

It's coming.  There's snow in the higher elevations and ski season is on its way, even if it is predicted to be an El Nino year.  Lots of work has been done on the Cabin Creek trails this summer and fall to get them ready for grooming, and Suzanne provides us with this overview of where things stand. The State Parks Sno-Park program kicks into gear December 1st. From then until March 31st, the Sno-Park contracted groomer (as yet unassigned) will groom the trails at Cabin Creek for classic and skate skiing, weather permitting.  Long before that December 1 date, members of the Cle Elum Forest Service, the Kongsberger Ski Club, and other Nordic recreation groups are busy making the trails as groomer-friendly as possible. Throughout the fall, work parties have cut back brush, cleaned culverts, moved large and small rocks, taken down dead trees, and cleared timber that fell during last year's storms. Many, many hands and many hours later, the trail surface is unencumbered with...

  The I-90 expansion over Snoqualmie Pass has been in progress for a number of years, and will continue to be for another number of years.  As caretakers of and advocates for the Cabin Creek Sno-Park and associated nordic ski trails, Kongsberger Ski Club has made it a priority to stay involved with the project through the ever-changing roster of project managers, to make sure the wishes and needs of local skiers are heard.  To that end, KSC member Jeff Eustis, who has been our main point person in interacting with the Washington State Department of Transportation for many years, put together a meeting at the Kongsberger cabin this week to facilitate a discussion between ten club members – all four officers, several board members, and a couple members at large – and three WashDOT employees – the Development Branch Project Engineer, the Assistant Development Branch Project Engineer, and the Environmental Engineer – about the recreational uses of the trails, the pa...