Good Morning…its 9:00am on friday, Jan 18th,2013 temps all thru the Upper Pennisula stayed in the SINGLE DIGITS last night.. more snow coming for today…we have approx 8″ on the ground.. with high winds blowing for the last 24 hrs its hard to estimate depths….just depends on where you are…

pic is this morning at 9:00 am off our deck….temp is now at 13f @ 11:24am

Grooming:::: the good , the bad , the ugly….

GOOD news is most trails are in great shape and very rideable.. good to great…snow depths vary due to high winds 4″ to 8″ on average….

BAD news is South swamp still closed/gates shut due to deep water holes that are spring fed…. hopefully we will have them open soon (this week)

Ugly news is they are logging heavily in the Pike Lake to Little 2 hearted river bridge on trail 8 and on trail 452 at the south end If you are on plowed roads on these trails, its probably because your are in logging areas.. signs are posted….

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

So, I am impatient. I’ve been checking the local groomer reports and nothing is posted yet. Granted, it’s not 11am yet… Here is what I do know:

TASA groomed trail #9 last night and Grand Marais and Paradise groomed their trails heading in/out of town. We had a group of 10 guys take off from the resort last night at 7ish (they had talked of taking trail 9 to Pine Stump) and they did not return until after 11pm. The same group is up and riding this morning and they are planning on staying again tonight. Our other groups arrived last night and are off riding at this time. Sounds like good news to me. I have not directly spoken to anyone but I will update you when I do.

****In the meantime, we have a winter weather advisory through tonight calling for lake effect up to 3-6". Tomorrow we’re under a "lake effect watch" for another 6-12++".***

Nicole
Halfway Lake Resort
www.halfwaylake.com

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