Greetings Sledders,

Not much to write about other than tell you what trail is intact and what trails are partially intact. The Lovells trail #47 is still alive mainly due to light weekend traffic and of course all of the assorted off trail riding that accompanies this segment remains good as well.

As for the rest of the Grayling trails:

If you were to draw an east west line one mile south of Frederic you would be looking at the Great Divide. Everything north of that line is relatively good snow and everything south would be your garden variety dirt and snirt.

Are they still grooming you ask? I’m glad you brought that up Kathy. Yes we are, although we have to drive over the road six miles to get to groom-able snow. A first for us.

When do you expect things will get back to abnormal and you’ll get some snow? Fair question Bruce. Fact is there’s no snow predicted in the 5-10 day forecast except for a clipper that’s supposed to hit Hawaii. So please don’t ask us anymore Bruce, we’ll get to you when things perk up. And remember, we are clueless when it comes to knowing conditions elsewhere.

Ride Often and Please Be Safe,
Keith, Sandy and the Girls

At Fay’s Motel enjoy direct access to the Grayling Area snowmobile trails.

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Greetings Sledders

Dagnabit, I thought for awhile last weekend that winter was upon us and replenishing snows would be plentiful, temps would behave and the like, and we could glide worry free for a few weeks. But nooooo that’s not the case. There’s no real snow in the foreseeable and the temps are going to go a little crazy over the weekend there.

So here’s the deal for the Grayling trails to the best of my knowledge and predictions and so on.

Right now the trails look to be pretty good and stiff, (after a night of 22 below everything is stiff or turtle shelled but that’s another story all together), with a few inches of actual base left. This will no doubt change as the weekend progresses as there’s no snow coming and not much that groomers can do with so little to work with. So I’m afraid that by Saturday afternoon the conditions will likely be pretty darn poor.

There’s plenty of snow on the ground and the off-trail riding would be a good option with tons of two-tracks and the like available to play in and on. So then, sorry about the dismal outlook for Grayling there, but it is what it is and we just haven’t gotten the repeat snow fall events to build a base that will withstand this weekend’s traffic and temps you see.

I’m thinkin’ that the Mrs. and I will lay back, get some snacks and watch that last Fargo disc and call er’ good enough.

Ride Often and Please Be Safe,
Keith, Sandy and The Girls

At Fay’s Motel enjoy direct access to the Grayling Area snowmobile trails.

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