Greetings Sledders,

I’m back and frankly I’m happy to be vertical as opposed to forever horizontal and carrying on extended conversations with relatives who have long since left this world as we know and love it.
My Sandy did a masterful job of understating my condition as I requested, fact is I spent a week in Munson Med Center with Dbl Pneumonia, three days of which were in ICU. Doctors there told me that waiting another couple of hours could have been the kicker, literally. There’s a lot of this junk going around and please take my advice, don’t take it lightly.

ENOUGH ON THAT, LET’S TALK TRAILS:

We need snow to freshen things up plain and simple. Unfortunately there isn’t anything in the forecast, except for the occasional shot of LES which we of course will take without pause.
That doesn’t mean that we’re out of the game as we are continuing to Groom on our regular schedule and for the most part trail conditions are Fair to Good, mostly Good.
The Fair part of the equation is primarily limited to Trail 7 which is the Frederic trail, the most traveled of all of our segments and it’s pretty snirty until you get just south of Frederic and it then gets whiter the further North and Northwest you go.

THIS WEEKEND:

While the weekend is a long way out I think that we have a good shot at getting through it relatively unscathed. Friday’s forecast is calling for 34 degrees but cloudy skies and Saturday is supposed to be 36 with a 60% chance of snow. Again it’s a long way out but the current info suggests that we should be Okay.

One last note on this report, I’d like to thank our guys for standing in and taking the reins while I re-coup which could be another 3-4 weeks. In the mean time I’ve been told to set down, shut up and do the paperwork that everyone else hates to do.

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

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

Temp is only 6 below not the big deep freeze they talked about. Last week it was much colder -25. Light snow with some wind causing drifts. Groomers are out as usual, trails in great shape. Bay Mills got their groomer repaired so they will be back out.

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Trails are in good to excellent shape. Some flowing water on the Spile Dam trail yet, Kinross to Raco. All the rest of our wet areas are frozen over. We will be grooming the Bay Mills Trail groomer is down.

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Sault Ste. Marie to Brimley, Trail #8 – Base 3-5 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 <[p>Base 3-8 inches – Trail is in Excellent Condition

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

Base 2-5 inches – Trail is in Good to Excellent Condition. 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 2-5 inches – Trail is in good to excellent condition.Condition. When the trail is running along roads make sure you go with the flow of traffic on the right side of the road. All wet spots frozen.

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

Base 3 – 5 inches – Trail is in Good to excellent condition,

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

Base 2-5 inches – Trail is in Poor to good to Condition, the only bad spot is one water hole before the bridge but you can get around it on the sled. The trail has been groomed completely. Watch for deer!

The Downtown Trail has not been groomed, but it is marked and the city just put up the barrels so we will be grooming it shortly..

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