Greetings Sledders,

Wanted to wait on this report until I had a chance to groom our busiest segment, the Frederic trail, which I did today. We do have a continuing snirt thing going on at the south end and the trail gets better as you go toward Frederic. It’s okay and not great by any means and I’m going to call the south end fair.

Those that braved the bone chilling Sunday all reported good times and were happy that they ventured out. We currently have the Patterson group in from Ohio that arrived Sunday and travelled Monday to Harbor Springs, spent the night and returned today after sledding all over the tip of the mitt and said they experienced a little bit of everything. Good snow and marginal snow, ice, thin spots you name it.

WEATHER:
It looks like we are going to hold the temps and we have a shot at a clipper coming through along about Friday. Not a huge event but we’ll take whatever we can get to freshen things up.

TRAILS AND EMERGENCY TRAIL LOCATOR NUMBERS:
The overall assessment is fair to the south and better to the north and west.
I want to talk about emergency locator numbers because we had a serious accident on trail #7 Sunday afternoon and the person calling into 911 didn’t know where they were which delayed the arrival of the emergency crew. All the person calling in knew was that they were on trail seven. All of our trails are marked with locators (mile markers) that are spaced no more than a mile apart, the same as you would see on I-75 (i.e. 7-37, 7-38 ect.). If there is an emergency and you have someone that can travel by sled to get the nearest number that’s the best action to take. You can then give that to dispatch and they can get to you much quicker as the numbers are all accompanied with GPS coordinates. If you can’t leave the injured person try to flag someone down and ask for their assistance. Time is everything in these situations.

Next report Thursday.

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,

WOW a day off!

Sorry about not getting to the reports of recent but I’ve been just a little bit busy.

We’ve had several friends of Fay’s in this week and all have reported good to great times on the trails. The snow we picked up last Fri and Mon night helped out a ton although I was hoping for some snow with more moisture but we will take whatever Mother Nature gives us at this point.

LET’S DO THIS:

WEATHER:
Cold, cold and more cold so bring those layers with you, you’ll need them. The local weather wizards are calling for Lake Effect for us over the next few days, however John Dee’s graphics has it falling short of our neck of the woods. Just have to wait and see.

GROOMING:
We are on our regular schedule. For those of you that aren’t familiar with that, we basically groom the outlying trails during the daytime on the weekends and run a tandem run on the main loop starting late afternoon and into the night. So if you encounter a large John Deere in the evening don’t think that you’re in the clear as the second won’t be far behind.

TRAILS CONDITIONS:
First of all I’m considering the trails good, not great or excellent, but good. Over the ten years of doing this thing I think I may have used great or excellent maybe twice.What you’re going to find is ample snow but it’s not a tight base because of the lack of moisture which hasn’t allowed us to pan the way we would like. This means that it doesn’t take a ton of traffic to push a corner out even if that traffic is riding conservatively. The straights should hold up and stay white for the most part with the corner segments getting snirty. Nothing that we can’t repair and it will all be a matter of luck on your part in terms of getting on a freshly groomed trail and I’ve given you as much of a hint as I can to help you in that endeavor. It’s all a matter of traffic volume and we’re thinking it may be strong, partly due to the Indiana Snowmobile Assoc. ride in this weekend.

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

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