Ironwood Trail Report – Gogebic Range Trail Authority – 02/11
The snow depth is reaching levels that we haven’t seen since 2015. If you have not made plans to come north and ride our scenic trails you are missing out! The entire GRTA trail system is rated excellent. Groomers ran nearly nonstop this weekend. With more snow this week and good temps forecast, trail riding will be going on for a long time! Off trail snow depth is 30"-40", be sure to KNOW BEFORE YOU GO. If you don’t KNOW you can ride off trail, don’t follow tracks! Do your homework! Stay with our sponsor AmericInn Hotel Ironwood MI !! <> Report via Gogebic Range Trail Authority Website <> Report via Gogebic Range Trail Authority on Facebook <> Visit Gogebic Range Trail Authority Website >>>> <> This is a spectacular racing venue and if you are in the area this will be a unique U.P. event to not miss. Thank you for the nice plug. Really appreciate it! Dates? Mike S of Bessemer took this video yesterday and yes that is @Wupm 106.9 FM pumping in the background!! -10+ below this morning makes the trails flat, smooth & stable! Be sure to support our sponsors like Den-O's Sports Bar & Wakefield VFW Post 9084 & Holiday Stationstores in Wakefield! Thank you Mike Secord and Bobb Kennedy for stepping up to volunteer. I have two more guys that I will be training this week. This is great, giving back to the sport they love! Thanks everyone for the hard work to make the trails awesome appreciate it👊 That’s east of Wakefield trail 2 thanks for the great job !!! Thanks guys for all the time and effort you give. You want me to mail you my AC/DC collection ? 😹😹👍 Thank you!! Welcome to America! Yowie! Trails are incredible!! Thank you Mike Secord of Bessemer for going hard today! He groomed trail 2 from Wakefield to Two Fat Guys Bar And Grill in Marenisco and back. Then got some fuel from Groomer Man Dan and groomed trail 8! Vice President Jerry and Groomer Man Greg Hiedeman of IL groomed 160 today. Trails will be awesome this weekend. Saturday shouldn't be near as bumpy, even with the warmth. Talking double digits below zero tonight, this 24" glacial pack will need crazy traffic to get it loose and whoop up. Thank your volunteer groomer operators when you see them! All western U P trails are DIALED right now! Get up here! Hope the warm up doesn’t do to much damage as we coming next weekend Thank you Greg H. Thank you all ! The trails look fabulous 🙏❤️😊 Just left, was there 4 days, pretty awesome Thanks for all you guys do! Is there any radar runs in area 1st week of February Travis Cooper Trevor Pokrywka Billy Loeding 👌 Now this is what we need in Michigan, an updated study. While we work to dive into the figures, it should be noted Michigan sells about 40,000 more trail permits than Maine. Their permits cost $100 and have 14,000 miles of trails as compared to Michigan's 6,000. #supportthesport Snowmobilers contributed $606 million to Maine's economy last year wgme.com I was hoping Michigan would do a system like that where you can get a 3 day, 10 day, 1 month, and full season trail pass. Many times myself and the group I ride with only make one trip to Michigan. That last few years we haven’t gone at all because we don’t want to pay the trail pass for only 3-5 days of riding. (I live in Wisconsin) I think having the options would generate more sales I know we spend around $400 per person each trip. We do 6 trips a season to the UP with 4 guys each trip. That adds up to $9,600 minimum. That seems proportionally in line since our passes are $48 and we have roughly just less than half of Maine's trail miles. I still don't think its out of line -- we just paid $35/day x 2 sleds to ride in Ontario. Snowmobiling is not a cheap sport. We kind of know that going in. I have 5 sleds that have Michigan trail permits and only 2 sleds have been in Michigan. 1 hasn’t even left my house in Illinois. You could double the trail permit fee and I still would purchase 5 stickers. It’s about supporting the system in my opinion. Two sled register in Wisc, add trail passes in both Wisc and Mich... it is what it is... next are you going to complain about the 12 MPG trailering your sleds??? Iowa is going through this also, We have 2 stickers, license and trail permit. The state wants everyone to pay for both. It’s never enough $$$. The people from western & southern Iowa don’t pay trail permits because they ride Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan I would join the club ,, if we had trails to ride , to get to the trails you got to ride the black top roads to get there ,, when there is a bridge to use but it is gated off because it’s only used for snowmobiles ,, then there is no state trails unless you go to the other side of Wakefield mich, and you got to ride the roads to get there to ,, but if you had a snowmobile you could ride trails because they have trails for them ,, Too many stickers, My sled looks like a race car-Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. All are of fair value just a lot of extra paperwork. Would prefer one that would cover entire Region. Minnesota has over 22,000 miles of trails. Residents pay $35/yr but only sell 3 year registrations for $105 + fees = $113.50
Out of state trail stickers are $51/yr. Wow 👀 .. It was C-O-L-D last night! As Mike Secord and his son took the T7 for trail 8 Club President Steve snapped a video of the rig cooling down before a long night of making trails awesome. We feel 160 is a great ride today, Bob Kennedy groomed it completly from 9pm until 4am this morning. By 3pm our entire system will have been groomed twice in the last 24 hours, some sections more. Trails this weekend will be GREAT, the temperature forecast continues to reduce high temps, but even if it didn't we have gobs of snow on our trails region wide. Grooming crews from all clubs continue to run hard, please come support our efforts!! Trails were fantastic all weekend!! Thanks for all the hard work!! We appreciate it! Ted Hamilton you betcha! That was my son Garrett Secord walking by in the video last night when we pulled the groomer out of the barn. We did trail 8 from Bessemer towards Tula we only saw 4 sleds the whole night. It was a cold one for sure. Thank you for your dedication. Thanks for sharing, nice to see the pride all have in caring for the trails. Ted Hamilton I wish I knew you were up! Let me know when you are in the area again I would love to go out for a ride with you. That new trail 1 was awesome Mike Secord ? The one I used to know ? Kerri Schmillen Jonathon Hays Sierra Meredith We owe many thanks to Vice President Jerry *Nezzie" and Groomer Man Dan for working over night and thru Sunday fixing the blown Hydraulic line on the Tucker, what a mess, what a job and what a job well done! Thank you to Brian H., Bob K., Matt R., Mike S., Charlie B., Scott S., Nezzie and Groomer Man Dan for making the trails exceptional this weekend. We apologize to anyone we haven't gotten trained in for grooming yet, but we will be reaching out soon! Trails for next weekend will be exceptional, fresh snow next several days and good cold temps. Long live winter! #kippis Spent this past week riding all your trails.....and they were all excellent! Thanks for all your hard work👍 We have road from bessemer to watersmeet & back trails were awesome on Saturday. Sunday we did bessemer to lake in the clouds & back cold as hell 14 below when we got back but great trails. Hats off to the groomers. 👍🏁🏁🏁 Thanks for what you do! Trails were great a this past week! Jerry Nezworski way to go nez! 😘 Thanks to all of you for the continued work you put in for us riders. We all appreciate it! Someday i wanna drive a groomer <> Visit Gogebic Range Trail Authority Website >>>> <> Latest Trail Reports – Quick Links <>
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