Juneau Nordic ski club's all-weather grooming team work hard to manage popular ...
22.05.12
JUNEAU , Alaska — Even though it takes up to three hours to groom the trails at the Mendenhall Lake Campground, it only takes a matter of minutes to reduce that fine corduroy to powdery pits and the predictable tracks to a pothole-ridden mess.
"It takes about four skiers and eight dogs," Scott Fischer said.
He smiled as he slipped on his gloves and fastened the strap on his ski pole. One day a week Fischer helps groom these trails. He is one of eight volunteers with the Juneau Nordic Ski Club, a local nonprofit aimed at supporting the Nordic skiing community in Juneau , that sets tracks for both classic and skate cross country skiing at the popular ski trails near Mendenhall Glacier. But he wasn't there to work that day; he was there just to ski.
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