Greetings Sledders,

Jeep Cherokee going head to head with Big Ass John Deere tractor on the trail results in Big Ass John Deere tractor winning the confrontation every time. Now let me be clear about this, I didn’t run this guy off our trail, he simply ran out of options and had to exit NOW. I may have inadvertently given this wide eyed gentleman the illusion that I wasn’t about to stop for him and if I did portray that illusion of flattening him like an annoying bug I apologize and it was purely unintentional. Kind of !!

LET’S GO I GROOMED TODAY AND I’M TIRED:

TRAILS:
We picked up a surprising 4-5 inches of LES on Tuesday which helped the snirt situation but didn’t resolve it entirely. Most of the straights are considerably better but the tight corners remain snirty, which of course won’t pass spell check, but I’ll use it just the same. So if you are like the guy that I just got off the phone with that has friends that are adverse to riding in snirty conditions this ain’t the place for you, cause it’s here in places. On the other hand we have the Creed group in that have racked up well over 600 miles in the last three days and have found conditions to be just fine.
That’s the hard part about reporting, what’s fine to some is not so much to others, and is why we try to take the middle of the road on this thing.

WEATHER:
There’s not too much to talk about here except that there’s a possibility of some Sun to shine from time to time over the next week which is never good in snirt situations, we’ll have to wait and see on this one and a lot of that scenario depends on traffic levels, and we’ve got to think that that will be relatively light until after Christmas.
It also looks like there is a potential for an event to happen along about the 24th or so which would boost us into the New Years weekend. Let’s hope.

GROOMING:
We are, and as I’ve said many times in the past, we are better people for it, and we a will continue to do so as long as snow conditions allow. If you are riding on it we are going to continue to groom it, to a point.

Next report Monday.

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

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

Greetings Sledders,

We’ve been grooming and riding on the snow that we picked up last Tuesday night thru Thursday and the traffic, although moderate, along with Mother Nature,caused some of the enemy "snirt" to show through primarily on the heavily travelled segments like trail #7 from the south to Frederico. Not un-ride able conditions, just not real pretty at times.

This time of the year the trail gets attacked from two directions. From the top down due to traffic and from the bottom up because the ground isn’t frozen yet and without fresh snow to replenish what we’re riding on and working with it doesn’t take long before snirt is present. Nature of the early season beast.

Strictly out of duty to grooming and journalistic accuracy I rode our entire circuit yesterday with two other groomer jockeys in order to arrive at a plan to continue grooming efforts and to accurately portray conditions in this thing that we do.

The result is that we are grooming and our focus is on bringing the corners in and under control and to pretty much pan the rest. Cut where we need to and be as gentle as possible with the rest.

Just a little shout out to the Indiana Snowmobile Association who I met with at the Ramada Inn Saturday morning in an effort to do some pre-planning for their ride in coming up this Winter. Thanks for choosing Grayling as your destination of choice and WELCOME.

LET’S GET TO IT, IT’S TIRED AND I’M LATE

TRAILS:
I think I pretty much covered this line above. Certainly ride-able but not premium by any means. Early season conditions are to be expected. Off trail is very good.

WEATHER:
We aren’t looking at any major snow events to take place in the immediate future, perhaps some clippers from time to time but nothing to get the panties all knotted up about. The temps look to stay in line with preserving what we have which is the bright side of the forecast. Should know more on this in a report that you can all eagerly await come Thursday evening.

That’s about it for now.

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

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