Greetings Sledders,         The trails can only endure so many body blows by the Sun and this last round has taken its toll.     Here is the latest poop by segment:     Trail #7 from Grayling to Frederic is poor.     Trail #679 fared better and is snow covered from Frederic to the intersection of #79.     Trail #79… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         We got 4+ yesterday along with some hefty winds.         Everything was groomed yesterday and into last night and the trails are good to very good. Probably the best that I’ve seen in a number of years.     There was significant drifting in the clear cut and open areas which provides for an opportunity to… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         I’d like to start by going way back to last Thursday. I groomed the Lovells trail and I had a frequent visitor here at Fay’s ride along for the 5 hour trip. A gentleman by the name of Maurice. He was here the week before and expressed a desire to see exactly what… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         We finally got some much needed replenishing snow on Sunday and it looks like a little more is expected Wed night into Thursday. How much depends on which forecast you are looking at and I keep hearing 2-3″ so we will go with that and talk about something else.         I just got back… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         Well the Sun didn’t behave and we lost a fair amount over the last couple of days. I groomed the trail South of M-72 yesterday and it’s getting pretty thin and icy. North of 72 the snow gradually gets heavier but it is also crusty from the daytime sunshine and nightly re-freezing.         I… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         Had to wait on getting something out until I had a chance to groom the Frederic trail to see first hand how it weathered yet another weekend of above freezing temps. That trail segment is like all the rest in that there are good stretches of white snow and stretches of snirty snow and I… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         First of all I feel for everyone who had to endure the lousy trail conditions last weekend but our hands were tied because we cannot groom wet snow. It bridges between the cutting edges and will not flow under the pans on our drags. The snow simply accumulates, balls up and overflows onto… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         A very quick update as I am running on fumes.         I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from the drivers and from sledders in terms of the trail conditions and  I’m calling them good to very good. We got about 3″ today and it helped to sweeten things up on the Frederic… Read More >

Greetings Sledders,         The crazy train finally slowed down enough for me to safely jump off and find the time to set down and write a report. Part of the delay is attributed to waiting for information from my esteemed contact within the National Guard with regard to a possible trail closure due to a military… Read More >

I just talked to Keith – he’s out grooming, said trails are good. And it’s going to snow! See the 13th report for more comments from him.