Greetings Sledders,

We are happy to report that everyone that hitched their respective wagons with us over the weekend reported good to better than that rides. This includes one of our favorite Ohio groups that long ago figured out that Friday you ride North and West and Saturday your best bet is to head East young man head East, and they did and found good trails together with a side bar into off-trail adventures.

Okay let’s talk about this weekend. For the most part you will find good trails especially early on, say Friday, where the trails will be tight. Hell everything is going to be tight considering the temps they are talking about. Brings back memories of last year. Bring both sets of long johns.

The segment that continues to bother me is #7 South of M-72 and North of 4 mile. We are grooming it but it’s pretty snirty and hopefully the snow in the forecast will help. And I’m calling this section fair. All of the other trails are good, with snirt here and there and again a little new snow will help. Our grooming is back to a regular schedule which means heads up on the Lovells trail during the daytime.

That’s about it for now

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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No change in trail conditions to report from yesterday. Tuesday night is equipment maintenance night so there was no grooming last night. We got an inch of heavy snow overnight and are enjoying temps in the upper 20’s. Otherwise it’s cloudy and quiet outside. We might see some more snow later today but tomorrow looks drier and a LOT colder. The predicted high is only 5. If you’re packing to come here and ride this weekend be sure to bring extra layers. It looks like the whole weekend is going to be bitterly cold!

Just an FYI that there’s logging activity on the east loop of our wooded trail. The area is signed but watch for changing trails conditions where the trail has been plowed for vehicle traffic. The activity stretches about 1/2 to 1 mile.

Other grooming club news is the new drag we took delivery of in January. The State approved our purchase and this drag was custom-made for us by the experts at Dubie Welding & Fabrication in Gaylord. We’re glad to support local, Michigan business with this purchase. And since this drag will be paid for with State dollars it’s nice to know your trail permit money is coming back around.

If you’re interested in supporting local grooming efforts, visit www.justgroomit.org for details on joining the Indian River Snowmobile Grooming club with a membership donation. We have hats and t-shirts (short & long sleeve) for sale too. Even when we can’t groom we still have operational expenses like insurance, two-way radio communication subscriptions, and more. Thanks to member donations we’re putting up a groomer building ,where we now store and can work on the equipment. Your support makes all the difference! Thank you–

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