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The warm up is here. Today’s temps will be a high of 44 with a low of 27. The rest of the week temps will be in the 30’s with the exception of Wednesday with temps a high of 16 and low of 6. Because of low traffic, the trails are awesome. Now is the time to enjoy some great riding.

The Gogebic Range Trail Authority – All trails are freshly groomed and in very good condition. The DNR reports that trail 11S will be closed due to logging this winter.

The Lake Gogebic groomer’s report: Grooming is ongoing. No problems to report on the system except some snowmobilers are riding on the railroad tracks through Merriweather and Bergland. The snowmobile trail runs parallel to the tracks and some are mistaking the trail. WATCH for the snowmobile trail signs as you WILL be ticketed for riding on the tracks.

The Watersmeet groomer’s report: Grooming is ongoing. Trails are in excellent condition. Come out and get some great riding in.

Please remember groomers are out both day and night, so watch for them, Please pull over or at least slow down and wait for the operator to signal you by whenever you see them.

JUST ONE MORE REMINDER: PLEASE STAY ON MARKED TRAILS. RIDING ON UNMARKED TRAILS CAN RESULT IN THE CLUBS LOSING EASEMENT FOR THAT TRAIL AND IT CAN ALSO RESULT IN A POSSIBLE TICKET FOR YOU.

Call our snowmobile report at 800-522-5657 anytime.

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So it has been fairly quiet on the forum lately, but you can’t say that about the trails. I have had a couple people tell me that Saturday was the busiest day that we have had all year. Tons and tons of sleds everywhere, long distance riders, Island riders and day riders alike all went out to tear up our trails! Temps on Saturday got to around 30, which finally softened things up dramatically and when you have lots of sleds, warmer temps and a DEEP base, that spells mougles. The worst the groomers have seen all season, even when we didn’t run for 3 days in January! It was soft enough that the grooming speed was about 1/2 of what we normally run, and the Grade out of Iggy was bar far the worst. There was even enough traffic that they tore up the Castle Rock trail in the corners. Don’t worry, Sundays run got everything fixed back up the way it is supposed to be.

It is warm again today and I don’t expect the trail to hold up if we get any more traffic. Tuesday is going to be warm again too, with a big cool down to single digits on Wednesday which should freeze everything in really well.

Friday it will be warm again, so expect things to get tore up again, which should be all fixed up for Saturday morning riders. The temps are supposed to remain in the 15-20 range for the near future, with the exception of Mon, Tues & Fri. So this weekend will again be perfect and epic riding. This is shaping up to be the best March in a very very long time.

Plan out the rest of your Month for riding, as the trails will survive a weeks worth of 50d temps no problem. The base out there is currently 24-30’+ deep which will last and last. Just remember that when it does get warm, any kind of traffic will tear it up. The groomers will fix it, but you will need to expect some mougles at the end of the day.

Base: 24 inches

Snowfall Past 24 hours: 0 inches

Last Grooming: Every other weekday, and all Weekend.

Current Trail Conditions: Good to Excellent

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