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Have fun; will travel. Will travel far, if necessary.

Whatcom County cross-country skiers know the mantra. Some winters, such as last year's spring like meltdown, push them toward other parts of the state or southern British Columbia to find snow.

It's not that they uniformly avoid the trails at Salmon Ridge Sno-Park, the county's only regularly groomed site. Located east of Glacier just off Mount Baker Highway, Salmon Ridge serves up 15 miles of cross-country bliss, but at 2,200 feet, snowfall there tends to be unpredictable, at times scarce.