Good Morning….Monday , Feb 27th 9:20am….temp is 33 and light snow falling …We did run the groomers all weekend & last night… It never did snow like the weather guessers said it would. But it did snow enough to cover the trails..
I groomed trail #8 to Pine Stump last night. It is about 80% good, 10% fair and 10% dirt. DON ran trail #45 to the Falls and about the same thing. The Point trail, #452 and #453 is the same too. Trail #8 south is a little worse, more like 50-30-20.
We received about 2-4 inches last night with drifting/high winds…so it varies from area to area & every mile down the trails..
2 more impending storms are moving in to our area this week and snow if forecast for the next 5 days….we will see….the trails are improving with the lights snow we receiving..
HE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT TO 6 PM CST WEDNESDAY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER…
* SNOW WILL DEVELOP AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND BECOME HEAVY AT
TIMES LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MID MORNING WEDNESDAY. THE SNOW WILL
BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON.
* STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL BY WEDNESDAY EVENING WILL RANGE FROM 6 TO POSSIBLY AS MUCH AS 10 INCHES…
WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE
ACCUMULATION OCCURRING BY LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING.
* GUSTY WINDS OUT OF THE EAST MAY PRODUCE SOME PATCHY BLOWING SNOW.
February 27, 2012 | Paradise Area Night Riders
Greetings Sledders,
I’m taking a break from the ever interesting and somewhat repetitive political ads on the tube to announce that I’m running for President. After all who knows how to cut spending and rite the ship better than a northern Michigan small business owner caught in the midst of the worst winter in recorded history. Sandy will be my VP on the ticket as she’s the one behind the crunching in this organization. I vow that the one and only commercial that I could possibly afford to make will be kind of honest.
I rode 76 miles yesterday and the difference between your 76 and my 76 is that it took me 9 hours to complete and had a fuel cost of 250 bucks attached to it. My counterpart in the other Deere logged similar numbers and it turns out that the trips were well worth the hours and dollars spent.
I rode the smaller, faster machine today and I’m pleased to say that finally, finally we are in the process of true base building. A combination of grooming with the Sun in high gear providing some moisture with little traffic and freezing temps last night provided a nice stiff base today. The trail rating is for the time being going to good.
WEATHER:
Here’s where it gets sort of goofy. Look at one site and it’s, for a minute or two, calling for snow, look at another and it’s ice pellets, and another is calling for dancing girls in hula skirts, who knows at this point it’s all a matter of the tracking. I would say this, if we get some ice mixed in with what we get Tuesday night into Wednesday that will actually be a great set up for grooming and adding to the base before the weekend.
Gotta go and get to work on the commercial.
Ride Often and Please Be Safe,
Keith, Sandy and The Girls
At Fay’s Motel enjoy direct access to the Grayling Area snowmobile trails.
February 27, 2012 | Fay's Motel Uncategorized
