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Cadillac / Baldwin Snowmobile Trails – December 14, 2010 – Courtesy of Wolf Lake Motel & Resort –ATV & Snowmobile Rentals — www.michigansnowmobile.com/wolflakemotel
Groomer operators are saying curvy areas do have snirt and straight areas are fairly nice for early season riding, but the ground still isn’t frozen, so conditions can change fast. Forecast is for more snow and cold, with a Clipper system on 12-17-10
Jay’s Resort is right on beautiful Thousand Island Lake in the Western U.P. Since 1950, we have been offering a great place to “get away from it all,” to fish, boat, swim, snowmobile, ski, and just enjoy. Snowmobilers have access to the Western U.P. trail system directly from their door while cross-country skiers can enjoy miles and miles of cross-country trails in the nearby Sylvania Wilderness Area.
Jay’s Resort
E19848 Thousand Island Lake Road
Watersmeet, MI 49969
1-906-358-4300
It looks like we have at least a shot at keeping the trails intact until Sunday.
The forecast keeps changing slightly in terms of temps and the amount of rain that may fall. If the current forecast holds true then we will likely lose the trails sometime Sunday. I say that with a certain amount of caution as much depends on the amount of Sun we get prior to the low moving in.
Tomorrow is supposed to be partly cloudy and temps around 32. Should we get an all day blast things could go south fast, at least in the snirty spots on the trails.
It also looks like we will retain our off trail snow pack if things shake out as forecast.
TRAILS: Right now the trails are in decent to good shape. We groomed everything out the last few days. The more traveled tight corner sections are going to be snirty in the corners which is always the case. I groomed the Blue Bear Connection and Hanson Hills yesterday then took the new machine for a ride on the Frederic trail and all in all had a good ride.
GROOMING: The schedule is set for the next several days and we’ll just have to make the call to go on a day to day basis depending on what Ma. Nature serves up.
Here are some grooming activity numbers for December that some of you may be interested in reading:
We groomed 19 days.
We are responsible for 86 miles total.
During those 19 days we logged 1444 miles. This was done using Blue the vast majority of the time and required 217 volunteer man hours that were generated by basically 4 drivers.
We averaged 76 miles per day at an alarmingly fast avg. speed of 6.65 miles per hour.
Ride Often and Please Be Safe,
Keith, Sandy and The Girls
Rode the trail from Newaygo sports park to Chase yesterday and had a
great ride. We went 50 miles before we saw any other sleds
(everydody watching football?) Great job grooming and great food at
Chase Creek Smokehouse. Put on 170 miles with light snow all day and
perfect conditions!
I just wanted to do a quick update since its been a few days.
The last day or 2 we have gotten several inches of snow and it is remaining cold so the trails are in great shape right now. We did not get hit with too many riders this past week and the groomers are out so the trails are in very good riding shape. Now, hopefully the weather will continue to cooperate.
Snow and Weather: Recieved 6 inches of system snow last night.
Trail Report: Greetings Sledders,
Just another quick update. Mother nature blessed us with 6 inches of system snow last night.
Keith has been out in the big blue tractor all day after cleaning up around here this morning. Then someone else will be out most of the night. And tomorrow they start all over again.
The weather people are calling for lake effect for the next two days, than maybe another system coming through, followed by more lake effect. If you can get away for a couple days, now’s the time.
Trail Report: December 29 2007 Snowmobile Trails We got 7 inches of new snow today . Trails are in great shape. I will take new pictures tomorrow in the a.m. – The pere Marquette trails are in excellent shape.