St. Ignace Trail Report – 02/09
I can’t believe that I am gonna say this, but our trails are in pretty good shape. We groomed everything up on Monday while it was soft, and it has frozen really hard and fast. In fact some of the trails are glazed over with ice. The woods aren’t as bad, but the grade is icy for sure.
So here is the beak down, you can ride if you want to, but be darn careful. Things are icy, and very hard, and smooth. There are 2 sections of about 100′ of gravel on the RR Grade coming out of Iggy which will pose a bit of a problem. The pipeline is in tough shape. It is really thin and sections of the trail are sand. On Tuesday, Dave told me you could pick you way through there with a sled, going from side to ride and get through, but it isn’t flat and fast for sure. The rest of the trails are smooth, a bit icy and very very hard. All of the water problems are gone. We have the absolute perfect base if we can get some snow topper.
If you wanted to bypass the couple of trouble spots and ride from castle rock Rd, park out by the expressway, don’t try to drive into the trail. That fist hill is glare ice, no way to bring a trail back down if you make it to the top.
Got some pics for you today. The first 3 are RR Grade out of Iggy, you can see a short gravel section in there. You can kinda get off to the side, but it is tough. The next set are Castle Rock Rd, and the RR Grade out of Iggy, looking in all 3 directions. This is pretty much what the trails look like everywhere else.
Be careful out there kiddies!