Carnival events included cross-country skiing, ski jumping, curling, snowshoe, and skijoring. The trail is a strenuous snowshoe hike in the winter. The resort comprises the Snowshoe and Silver Creek ski areas. Elk browsing improves forage for other herbivores like deer, voles and snowshoe hares. Snowshoe hares prefer young forests with abundant understories. Smaller mammals include groundhogs, red squirrels, eastern chipmunks, martens, and snowshoe hares. This route has traditionally been used for a winter-time approach by ski/snowshoe. A specialist predator, the Canada lynx depends heavily on snowshoe hares for food. These prey on the snowshoe hare. Moonlight increases snowshoe hare vulnerability to predation, particularly in winter. The Canada lynx preys primarily and almost exclusively on the snowshoe hare. A major predator of the snowshoe hare is the Canada lynx. Snowshoe hares eat a variety of plant materials. The Canada lynx tends to be nocturnal like its primary prey, the snowshoe hare. Snowshoe hares are active year-round.