Greetings Would-Be Sledders,

Haven’t posted an update for awhile because there wasn’t any need to and if I did it would have been a waste of your valuable time reading it.

We got about 2" of dry LES on Friday and two inches of that stuff does not a good trail make which is why we didn’t update. There’s no base and your ride would entail a lot of rock busting and not much fun in our estimation.

The outlook for the week is bad and good to some degree. The bad is the Sun is going to be in high gear until a system comes through Thursday. Current forecasts show that the event is going to skirt us to the north, go figure. But that is subject to change, we’ll have to wait and see.

Right now the trails are poor at best and could get worse depending on the Sun damage.

Next report Thursday.

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

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

Things are not changing that much out there. It got around freezing this weekend which did produce a bit of a chop on our trails up by Trout Lake. The infamous last 2 miles got a little tore up on Saturday, but should be all fixed back up by now. Everything else is just about the same. A couple of tough spots on the RR Grade North of Iggy, and in Moran, the sides of the roads suck, and the pipeline is tough going. The forest trails are in good shape, and everything else is just this fantastic base waiting for snow. Drop back to this thread for pics of the trails: http://www.straitsareasnowmobileclub…ead.php?t=1286

This weeks forecast is just more and more of the same. Near freezing temps with little to no snow except some sort of possible storm on Thursday:
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Today: Sunny, with a high near 34. West wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: A chance of snow and freezing drizzle after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 24. West wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tuesday: A chance of snow and freezing drizzle before 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 35. Southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tuesday Night: Cloudy, with a low around 26. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. Southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Wednesday Night: Cloudy, with a low around 26.

Thursday: A 50 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34.

Thursday Night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33.

Friday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20.

Saturday: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16.

Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 26.

Looking OK, but we are getting to the point that we are going to need more snow if we are going to keep the Southern loop ridable. The Northern loop should be OK through the weekend, new snow would fix up the trouble spots.

So far this season we are running about 18% of normal grooming. I sure hope that we pick up some groomable snow in the near future to get those number up some.

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