Greetings Sledders,         We finally got some much needed replenishing snow on Sunday and it looks like a little more is expected Wed night into Thursday. How much depends on which forecast you are looking at and I keep hearing 2-3″ so we will go with that and talk about something else.         I just got back… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         Well the Sun didn’t behave and we lost a fair amount over the last couple of days. I groomed the trail South of M-72 yesterday and it’s getting pretty thin and icy. North of 72 the snow gradually gets heavier but it is also crusty from the daytime sunshine and nightly re-freezing.         I… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         Had to wait on getting something out until I had a chance to groom the Frederic trail to see first hand how it weathered yet another weekend of above freezing temps. That trail segment is like all the rest in that there are good stretches of white snow and stretches of snirty snow and I… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         First of all I feel for everyone who had to endure the lousy trail conditions last weekend but our hands were tied because we cannot groom wet snow. It bridges between the cutting edges and will not flow under the pans on our drags. The snow simply accumulates, balls up and overflows onto… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         A very quick update as I am running on fumes.         I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from the drivers and from sledders in terms of the trail conditions and  I’m calling them good to very good. We got about 3″ today and it helped to sweeten things up on the Frederic… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         The crazy train finally slowed down enough for me to safely jump off and find the time to set down and write a report. Part of the delay is attributed to waiting for information from my esteemed contact within the National Guard with regard to a possible trail closure due to a military… Read More >

I just talked to Keith – he’s out grooming, said trails are good. And it’s going to snow! See the 13th report for more comments from him.

Greetings Sledders,     The menacing storm threat forecast for last weekend turned out to be a mild mannered snow squall although it did give us enough snow to make up for Friday’s little heat tantrum and we ended up with good trails once we started grooming Saturday night.     Everyone that we talked to over the weekend… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,    In the last report I committed to a report that was to come out on Friday. There’s no reason to wait. The weather sources that we rely on all seem to be in agreement that something good is about to unfold in terms of snowfall over the next few days.         Temps today and… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         Conditions have improved and the forecast is looking better.     We started grooming Sunday and finished yesterday. This wasn’t a panning exercise, we were grooming with the intention of getting everything flat knowing that there were going to be limited short stretches where dirt would get mixed in which is why I wanted to hold off… Read More >