A quick report on trail conditions – poor to nonexistent! Over the weekend and the last several days we had temperatures in the high 30’s and low 40’s with rain.

Needless to say, most of the snow melted and there are huge water holes opened up on all the trails. What snow didn’t melt away, turned to sheer ice!

Ditches and creeks are running deep and fast. Starting late yesterday evening, we got enough snow to cover the ground in town. In the snowbelt, they got maybe 3 to 4 inches of snow. It’s going to take a while for everything to freeze down
again. We need a good SNOW STORM before I’d advise making the trip up.

As always, Ride Safe and Bring them Home Alive!

Kay

The temp did drop to below freezing last evening and we got 2-3 inches of snow and the temp is hovering around 25 degrees. All ditches and creeks are flowing full tilt with water from all the rain yesterday with no snow in the forecast for a week. Not good for the trails.

Via Sault Ste. Marie Snowmobile Association on Facebook

Dec 17 – The temps did drop to below freezing last night and we got 2-3 inches of fresh snow but all ditches and streams are running full due to the rain yesterday. No snow in the forecast until middle of next week. Grooming prospects do not look good for this weekend.

Dec 16-Rain and warm temps the last 5 days have our 50+ inches of snow in November just about gone. Temps are to drop tonight and maybe 1-4 inches of snow but that is all that is called for in the near future. So it don’t look good for grooming.

Trails are open and you can now ride your sleds legally. We no longer have good snow in most areas.

We need cold weather now to freeze them up.

Soo to Kinross is not frozen yet as well as Kinross to Raco. If you go for a ride I would recommend avoiding those areas that are always wet until we have cold weather because you will get soaking wet. There is no use us wasting fuel and breaking equipment until colder temps are called for.

Sault Ste. Marie Snowmobile Association