Greetings Sledders,

Sorry to bother you but something’s come up. It snowed last night and it’s continuing as I write this amended report. I have generated this thing for 12 years now and this has to be the most frustrating of all those years. The weather forecast continually dances around like a ballerina on steroids making it very difficult to report with any degree of confidence. We went from not going to get anything to maybe 1 or 2 to what actually is happening which is 2" last night and another 2" forecast for tonight.

What does that do to the conditions rating? It elevates it to fair is the simple answer. The rating can’t go to good without having something other than ice for a base and the 2-4" that we are looking to get does nothing to contribute to base. I could easily say that we got 2" therefore we now have 2" of base. NOT. Doesn’t work that way, base building is a work in progress and it takes many snow events for us to pan and build base. Personally I think people are more interested in what they are riding on ( ice, dirt, loose snow, tight snow ) rather than the so called depth of base.

Promise I won’t bother you again till Monday, maybe.

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

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

Greetings Sledders,

Well the Monday meltdown wasn’t nearly as severe as it could have been and the saving grace was a lack of traffic. On the other hand we didn’t get squat for snow to recover what we did lose. So where does that leave us you ask?

I’ve been doing daily road trips to the crossings and have driven to the trails from two tracks and I’ve found poor to fair conditions only. Nothing in the good category as we’ve not been close to that prestigious ranking all year. There’s good and bad to every segment we have. Take as an example the Lovells trail, it starts out on a 5 mile protected straight away which is icy but snow covered,goes into a wooded section that is fair, then comes out into an open stretch that is bad for a half mile but skirt able. Another challenge to that trail is getting to it due to Lewiston Grade Rd behind us being thin to bare all the way there. I suspect that all of our segments are going to reflect this type of riding. Fair to poor, poor to fair and so on.

Unfortunately there’s not much snow in the forecast maybe an inch or two and there’s no guarantee of that.

There you have it poor to fair and I am somewhat cautious about using fair but people are riding and there are areas where it’s okay.

I also drove out to the Range areas and off trail remains a viable.

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

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