Good Morning…its Monday …1-13-14 you are waking to 33 degrees and the last of our overcast , balmy,wet , & dreary days….
a 3 day Martin Luther King National holiday (Monday) weekend coming up…
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We have a seasonal snow fall of 124 ‘ (just over 10ft.) as of 1-13-14
It has snowed 51 days since Nov. 1st.
Actual snow level on ground is 24′ after this weekends warm temps

##‪#‎Weather‬……
today is the last of our warm above freezing weather…
tomorow brings in a small clipper system from the s.e. with about 2 ‘ of snow and temps in the TEENS…..
SNOW predicted for the next 7 days…..
Thursday brings in another n.w. clipper system with another 2-3′ of snow…precicted….???? with some high winds…all temps will be in the teens for the next 7 days

### Trail Report…..
All trails have at least a 6-12′ base..(farther north the deeper the base)..with cold temps in the teens and snow for tonight … to help harden up our snow base….
all trails are still in a excellent range…thanks to low trail usage and cold,frozen trail base

### hazards…..
TREES….heavy wet snow in trees are breaking branches littering trails with snow clumps and branches….
watch for groomers/people on trails removing debris….
Pictures from yesterday 5 miles north of Paradise on Superior Drive… just to give you a idea of the snow left after 2 warm days…

Good and Bad. Trails held up OK though the weekend. Rain on Friday didn’t really hurt things much, softened the top 4′ of so, and then is freezing back down. Trails did get away from us just a little over the weekend with a scheduling conflict, and now the bad news: Looks like we may have lost a motor in #5 Brevort groomer. Only 3500 hours, and regular maintenance, there is no reason that I can think of for this to happen, but we have oil where it isn’t supposed to be. We have a mechanic coming to Monday morning for diagnosis. Depending on the results, we will either have it back up and running on Thursday, or if not, it will be later next week. This means the groomer drivers are going to have to work really hard at coordinating and double-shifting the tractor to get things covered. We are going to cover the entire 101 miles of trail with just 1 machine, so at time the outer trails will have to be neglected, but we will concentrate on getting the core of the system done as much as possible. We will certainly have the whole system fixed back up for next weekend, during which it will be required to miss some runs. To do our system with 1 tractor it has to run almost 20 hours straight, so coordinating more then one day like that it tough.
I will post up the good/bad news as soon as I head more.

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