GOOD Morning …..its 8:30Am on Thursday , Jan 17th….a chilly 8 f on the shores of Whitefish Bay…. colder inland…-3 in Sault STe. Maire and +3f in Newberry, Mi. more ‘Artic Clippers’ on there way thru the weekend…with periods of ‘lake effect’ snows mixed in….about 6′ of new snow on the ground now….lots more to come this weekend :)…

Pic is 8:30am temp 8f….snowing on and off light overnight snows with periods of high winds…. worst is yet to come… good day to groom snow trails…:)

GROOMERS will be starting out today and on a regular schedule tomorrow… grooming the 2 loops into town today (trl 45 & 8) & we are setting/remarking the town trail to keep errant snow-machines out of yards and private property’s…remember the town speed limit is enforced…

Our South swamp of trail #8 is still closed…(tahquamenon river to Paradise area) you can bypass it by running the 3 miles of unplowed portion of m-123…

All other trails are open and in good flat,frozen condition…not alot of snow on them just yet …as this weekend snows progress they will be close to very good conditions…about a fair condition now..because of lacking snow..
hope to get up trail8 today towards pine stump jct…reports of big drifting snows on trails…
Blessing of the snowmobiles has been cancelled mother nature is not being nice to us sorry and no radar runs either… snow came too late …..

GAS STATIONS open in our area….
trail 8 .
….Silver creek bar and gas
Paradise has 2 gas stations
Pine stump Jct (luce county)
town of grand Marais
Rainbow lodge is still burned down & closed (Duck Lake Fire)

trail 45…..town of Paradise 2 gas stations
tahquamenon grocery and gas…Lower Tahquamenon falls..
town of Newberry michigan

Feel free to comment or ask questions….weather is great , traffic low, great family adventure weather….Enjoy