Hi Everyone, It has been very busy all week and the weekend looks to be much busier, so with exta traffic we all need to slow down and enjoy the ride and stay to the right. The groomers are scheduled to groom daily through out this holiday weekend and all the guest are very happy with the trails, but all riders are saying that the trails are very busy. The forecast is for a Clipper system for late 1-1-10 and 1-2-10 with "large accumulations" and LES snow for the next 5 days after that. But again with any forecast, I believe it when I see it. So this will make for some sweet riding this Holiday weekend. That is what is nice around here, we are in the middle of 6 different grooming clubs, if one isn’t grooming, one of the other Clubs are grooming. There will be some ice and snirt out on the trail in the curves, so slow down and enjoy yourself. Most county roads are snow covered, so getting fuel or food shouldn’t be a problem. There is tons of snow in the woods, so two tracken and seasonal roads are a blast right now. (Which there are tons of). There is going to be some Ice on the trails and roads, so be careful. THE LAKES ARE NOT SAFE YET.

Rooms and Snowmobile Rentals are available.

We are members of the Cycle Conservation Club of Michigan, Baldwin Trailriders Snowmobile Club, Benzie/Manistee Snowbirds Snowmobile Club, Irons Area Tourist Association Snowmobile Club, Wellston Area Recreation and Tourist Bureau Snowmobile Club, Lake County ORV Club and the Michigan Snowmobile Association, which are the local grooming clubs. I can not thank these guys and gals enough, they do a lot of work for free, so we all can enjoy this sport. I would only think that if someone is complaining about a bumpy trail on Saturday afternoon, come to a couple club meetings and see just what these people do. They would never complain again. Thank you again.

Call 231 745 4101 8am until 10pm. See ya soon on the trails.

Greetings Sledders and Happy New Year,

It just dawned on me that I needed to get up and ultimately sit back down and write this deal as I was setting in the easy chair gazing at the tube with these glassed over nine mile stare groomer jockey eyes of mine. Been a long, long week with three of us carrying all of the load. I’ve been in a Deere everyday and have three more to go before a brief respite of one day kicks in and we then go into maintenance mode for a couple of days then back at it. Good God I love driving heavy equipment through the woods.

It’s also been a busy week here at the motel and we would like to thank all of you that were here to help us keep electricity running through the wires and water running through the pipes and of course the occasional piece of beef running through the, well you know what I mean. You are appreciated very much.

OKAY, ENOUGH ALREADY, FIRE IT UP DUDE:

GROOMING:
We are hard at it until Tuesday in order to keep up with the weekend traffic. I’m taking the daytime lead run the next three days which is the Lovells and Hanson Hills segments and that run will be about 8 hours, two other nut cases like myself will then jump in and do the tandem run on the main trail to Frederic over to the Blue Bear back down and across to the airport and back here. We’re doing the best we can to keep up.

TRAILS:
We’ve had lots and lots of sledders in this week and no complaints with all saying good to great rides. That is saying something considering that it is still early season riding out there. We believe that if you tell people that you are going to see some snirt stretches, some good stretches, etc that they are then not surprised with conditions and are for the most part okay with what we have to offer at the present time. Not optimal conditions by any means but certainly not terrible. Or tuuurrible as Sir Charles Barkley would say. Off trail continues to be a viable option as well.

WEATHER:
The weather wizards are calling for some snow over the next few days and temps look to behave for the next week and beyond. Nothing major on the horizon good or bad. Keep everything crossed because history tells us that a slump is going to happen at some point during the season.

Next report Monday as long as these eyes of mine don’t deteriorate and go from glassed over to crossed which could lead to some interesting reading on your end.

Ride Often and Please Be Safe,
Keith, Sandy and The Girls

At Fay’s Motel enjoy direct access to the Grayling Area snowmobile trails.