Trail Update – We groomed all our trails last night except Trail 11N. (South Boundary Rd.), Trail 12 between Ontonagon and Greenland and Trail 137 (the railroad grade). We have a groomer down right now with parts for repair due to us tomorrow.

Right now, our trails are in good to excellent condition, and we are hoping to hit all 110 miles tonight, but due to warm weather coming, it doesn’t look like we will be grooming Friday night.
We are smokin’ busy up here already! The local restaurant has a parking lot full of sleds for lunch today. No matter how well we prepare, the trails will be beaten down on Saturday, sorry! We will be back out in force on Saturday night.

Current caution notes:

– Use caution on Trail 1 going up the hill up to Lake of the Clouds. The winding corners are getting icy and it is hard for us to fix them on that steep grade.

– Trail 13 – there is one icy banked corner that the groomer operator was not able to fix last night. Please slow down into the corners on this trail and maintain control to stay on your side, especially coming out of Rockland on the big hill after the Trail 137 junction.

Folks – if the weather forecast holds it’s going to get to 45 degrees tomorrow. We run through swamps, ditches and some low areas. PLEASE READ THE CAUTION NOTES BELOW-

– Trail 12 – just East of the Trail junction with Trail 1 outside White Pine (along LP Walsh Rd.). We rode this yesterday and some of the ice bridges in the low spots are getting narrow. We are going to have to unhook the groomer and do some major repair to these. With this warm-up coming tomorrow, they may not hold. Please slow down and go into these low spots with extreme caution. There is open water on both sides of most of them and one narrow marked bridge.

– Trail 12 along the Norwich Road – ride with caution in the ditch sections for the same reason.

– Trail 12 from Norwich to Ontonagon – same issue – we had open water in some low spots with the last warm up and they will probably open up again.

– Trail 12 from Ontonagon to Greenland – we had two wet spots on this section during early season. They did not open up for the last warm-up, but may this time.

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Still waiting on winter to hit us, weather is supposed to start warming up again tomorrow. I have talked to several riders that are heading to the u.p. to have some fun and that’s where it will all be at if you want to ride this weekend even though its supposed to warm up there too. The Darkside Adventures crew is well on their way for their fun and there is snow in Quebec where they are at. Pics below is from their visit at the Ice Hotel in Quebec City. They have stayed in it before but chose to stay in the warmer part of the Marriot. I am pasting an excerpt from their blog just to show you things don’t always go as planned. Thanks for checking in. Pete

9 riders and 3 trucks and trailers left Flint, Michigan on Monday, 1/22/18, at approximately 9am. We had an approximately 740 mile ride to get to our Launch Site of Bon Air Motel in Pont-Rouge Quebec. As usual, we laid over a little more than 1/2 way in Kingston, Ontario. Our usual location, the Courtyard by Marriott with a Boston’s Pizza across the parking lot where plans and schemes are hatched.

The first exciting thing that happened to the Team was while gathering in the bar at Boston’s Pizza to order dinner, the dining room began filling up with smoke. The drinks were comped and we were politely asked to vacate the premises as 4 engines of Kingston’s finest fire fighters rolled into the parking lot and began climbing the roof and looking for the source. Fortunately we were able to book our reservations for Super Bowl Sunday before we got the boot!

A new plan was hatched, as we are problem solvers, so we went back to the hotel lobby bar, and promptly cleaned them out of their stock of beer. Being the problem solvers we are, we then passed the collection hat, called a taxi, and sent Vinnie the Truck Driver to the corner “Beer Store” to fetch more. While he was gone, the local Pizza Hut was dispatched to deliver us 3 large pizzas’ for dinner! Problem solved, that’s what we do.

The second exciting event of our evening occured at around 3am. Every fire alarm in every room, on every floor went off! We were told to vacate the hotel now. After 20 minutes of waiting for the hotel staff to determine the cause, it was declared a false alarm and we could go back to our room. However, the alarms in every room on every floor were still going off. They could not be turned off until the fire department showed up to turn them off! That was another 10-15 minutes. By 3:45 silence was restored and sleep resumed, mostly.

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