Cold snowy and beautiful! We got 3-4′ last night and still snowing. Trails are in very good to excellent condition with no problems to report. A very few minor rocks poking through in Moran, other then that our whole system is in good shape. Off trail has layers of new snow for some decent powder riding now (not a fantastic as Newberry, but still tons-o-fun).
Groomers are in good shape and running on a regular basis. Wayne is swapping #5 with Bob today to bring #6 in town for minor maintenance hopefully on Friday. Grooming will continue nightly through the weekend.

Ice Bridge:
There is now ice to Mackinac Island. 2 guys walked across finding 2-3′ on Monday. The first sleds crossed on Thursday. There is no tree line, and it is not considered safe at this time.

Pond Hockey:
The 7th year of the LaBatt Blue UP Pond Hockey Championships is on for Feb 15-17th, and will be held on the Bay downtown St. Ignace. Over 170 teams are signed up for the 2nd largest tourney in the country. 30 rinks are currently under construction. This year the beer/warming tent will be on the beach next to the bay to keep your feet try. Ice bowling and a bon fire between the tent and rinks give something for everyone to do. Live entertainment throughout the day. Hope to see you there!
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Back in business again. Last day of January, and the official 1/2 way point of the season. It looks like it is finally going to be winter, at least for a while. Everyone knows the entire state had a big melt down earlier this week, and it hurt alot of places, our trails included. All of the paved streets were down to blacktop, the unpaved roads down to bare dirt. We lost about 1/3 of our overall snow depth. Last nights big storm, ended up giving us around 3′ in Iggy, 4-5 North of here. The first was super wet heavy snow, the last part was a dry sugary snow, which is what it mostly turned into. It has pulled us back into riding condition, with no major problems out there.

I will give a more specific report after both groomers report in. however, trails seem to have held up, and will be in decent shape after today’s groom. Groomers are headed out this morning to pan everything down, and then will run nightly through the weekend. We expect high traffic for the I-500 weekend, so be on the lookout for fellow riders, especially on Saturday. It has turned cold, and things overall have frozen back up, and even the town roads are travelable at this point. I expect the RR Grade will continue to be thin in Moran, and icy in a lot of places, but should have good lubrication snow, and be perfectly ridable with a few rocks poking through between M-123 and Moran.

Forecast over the next few days seem to be good, the cold will hold what we have, and maybe a little fresh here and there to make things look nice.
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