December 11 – If this whiteout keeps up we will have the 12-18″ predicted. What is missing from this picture?

Here at Halfway Lake we have 18" of snow on the ground, 5" of that being a good hard base from our warm up. We have seen a lot of snow since Tuesday, recently making our trails rideable and groomable, so the trails have not seen much traffic.

I am only able to rate trails off of the amount of snow we have, the hard base I measured and a compilation of groomer reports. I went with decent-very good based on groomer reports about slushy areas in swamps. I’d hope those are freezing up nicely since we have not had a day hit 20 degrees in almost two weeks. This cold weather will also help the trails set up nicely after the groomer goes through.

Grand Marais, Paradise and Seney, and Tahquamenon are out grooming. Tahquamenon assoc. reports they will open the gaits on public land (restricting getting into/out of Newberry) December 16th. You are still able to ride from Halfway Lake to Grand Marais and Paradise utilizing the trail systems, you just cannot get into Newberry via trail 9 from here.

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We are located 12 mi NW of Newberry and 7 miles S of Pinestump Junction, 1 mile S of the Wolf Inn. Between Grand Marais and Paradise.