Easy skiing in Sequoia

CROSS-country skiers at Sequoia National Park may have an easier time kicking and gliding under the giant trees this winter, as ski trails could be groomed for the first time.

A plan being worked out by the National Park Service and Delaware North Parks Services, the park concessionaire, would provide for machine grooming of up to 10 kilometers of trails in three scenic areas: Giant Forest-Lodgepole, Wolverton and Crescent Meadow. There will be an as yet undetermined fee to use the groomed trails.

But the new groomed trails will make it easier for skiers to enjoy the park in winter, if the Park Service gives its final approval.

“We are working hard to be ready to groom the trails when the snow flies this winter,” says Bill Tweed, chief naturalist at Sequoia-Kings Canyon.

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Bill Becher