Trail Report
Sunday February 24, 2019 9:12AM
Very Good overall conditions
Freezing Drizzle
1 general warning
2 trail warnings
Great Start But Rain Stopped Grooming!
Overall trail conditions are very good to excellent. A fresh 5 inches of snow fell yesterday with great grooming results and excellent trail conditions. Our night runs started out great but a steady rain started the snow “balling-up” in the groomers so Operators cut their runs short. Today’s plan is to finish up where they left off before the heart of the storm hits.
Ride with caution, we are seeing a lot of trees coming down and ready to with all this heavy wet snow. Once today’s winds pick up more downfall is expected. Ride Safe and Enjoy the Trails!
Thanks from Operator Keith for help from Riders moving a broken sled hazard off the trail near Shingleton Saturday morning (picture below). Small world, it was actually a group from Trenary Northern Trails (TNT) out enjoying the trails in between working on them.
Past 24 hour Grooming operations:
Trails 8 East to 7 miles north of Shingleton and 8 West, 7 North to Christmas and south to CR440, Trail 417 to Brownstone Intersection, Trail 418, Trail 419 East and West, Trail 422 and Wetmore Spur.
Today’s Forecast: BLIZZARD WARNING Snow starting mixed with freezing rain, 33 degrees dropping to 5 degrees tonight, 10 to 20 mph North wind becoming 25 to 35 with up 65 mph gusts from the North later today. 6 to 10 inches of snow accumulation.
Cover Photo: Operator Tyler grooming Trail 8 before the rain.
PLEASE ride with caution, stay right and be respectful, stay on the trail and off the throttle when in the towns.
Keep Snow Dancing with your friends and stay tuned for updates
TREES DOWN - BLIZZARD CONDITIONS
- We are having trees come down all over the northern part of the upper peninsula with a blizzard passing through. Ride with extreme caution. We will get out and clear our trail system as soon as safely possible.
Trail Conditions
8 East - Shingleton
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set great Saturday.
8 West - Chatham
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set great Saturday before the rain started. West half had limited grooming ability with rain and balling snow.
7 South - CR440
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set great Saturday.
7 North - Christmas
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set great Saturday night before the rain.
419 East - Wetmore
Very Good
groomed multiple times daily. High traffic trail section so may get choppy between grooming runs.
419 West - Munising
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set great Saturday night before the rain.
418 - Au Train
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set good Saturday night. It was raining so grooming was limited. Expect drifting later Sunday
Ride with Caution just East of AuTrain along the Lake Superior shoreline. Large drifts in that area and the trail runs right along the AuTrain River.
417 - Brownstone Jnct.
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set good Saturday night. It was raining so grooming was limited.
422 - Miners Castle
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set perfect Saturday.
Wetmore Spur
Very Good
Light but wet fresh snowfall, groomed and set perfect Saturday.
Use Caution in areas of steep side hill conditions near East end.
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