Trails are turning into great shape. Last night the wet areas in town were all frozen and flat as a board. Lots of snow everywhere the city is working on getting the barrels out to mark the trail downtown. We groom right in the street and along in front of the locks. We have not had enough snow to do that in 2 yes TWO years. The weather sounds great all the way to the 500!

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19 inches of snow since Wednesday. Groomers have been out getting the trails back in shape and smoothed out. Trails are all in good to excellent shape, except 2 water spots. You can get around both of them but they are hopefully frozen by tommorrow. One is on the Kinross to Soo trail and the second on Kinross to Raco trail! All other wet spots have frozen over with temps hovering around zero since Sunday.

Also many less signs on the trails this year, no more chevrons on every little bend in the trail.

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Sault Ste. Marie to Brimley, Trail #8 –

Base 3-6 inches -Trail is in Excellent Condition. Go with the flow of traffic on the bridge in Brimley!

Brimley to Raco, Trail #8 –

Base 3-7 inches -Trail is in Excellent Condition. Make sure you go with the flow of traffic when crossing the bridge in Brimley or you will be ticketed!!!!!

Raco to Naomikong Trail #8 [where Paradise meets us], Trail #8 –

Base 3-8 inches – Trail is Exellent Condition.

Sault Ste. Marie City Trail, Trails #497, #449, parts of #8 & #49 –

Base 4-6 inches – Trail is in Good to Excellent Condition. A good 3-5 inches here in town last night and today

City curfew is from 1am – 6 am. Remember most City streets are open to traffic, 20 mph, stop at all intersections, and ride the right hand side of street not on side walks. Watch for closed streets that are posted, mainly around the hospital, university, and state trunk lines.

Sault Ste. Marie to Kinross, Trail #49 –

Base 3-6 inches – Trail is in Fair to Good Condition. When the trail is running along roads make sure you go with the flow of traffic on the right side of the road. One wet spot between Gaines Hwy and 12 Mile Rd.

Kinross loop and south to Pickford, parts of Trail #49, #494, #472

Base 3 – 6 inches – Trail is in Fair to Good Condition.

Kinross to Raco/Rudyard, Trail # #480 & #472

Base 3-6 inches – Trail is in Fair Condition. Spile dam portion has a one wet spot.

The Downtown Trail has not been groomed, but it is marked. The city will not set up the barrels until we have enough snow, after the 1st of the Year, maybe this week if we don’t warm up too much.

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The talk around here is the cold temps, windchill, and lake effect that’s predicted all week. From Sunday into Monday late morning we received a total of 5′ here. Last night we got another inch of snow. Temps were at 2 degrees overnight and aren’t much higher now. Areas a stone’s throw to our west and south are in direct fire of the lake effect. This includes areas of our wooded trail down toward Wolverine. Down by Weber Lake there’s at least 10′ of fresh snow that fell yesterday! There’s been a little drifting here but winds haven’t kicked up yet this morning. We’ve got light snow falling now and predicted accumulations today are 2 more inches. Windchill will be taking temps down to negative teens so if you ride make sure no skin is exposed. Exposed skin will quickly frostbite with our windchill. Both groomers ran last night and trails are looking smooth and white. It’s quiet around town today so get out and enjoy this outdoor playground! We’ll bring you the latest on conditions tomorrow morning.

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