We received 5-8 inches of the fresh white stuff Thursday night and iinto Friday and has blanketed the ground. This will make Raco area good riding and around the Sault it will cover all the bare spots. The sun has came out today and the shoulders melt fast.

Sault Ste. Marie to Brimley, Trail #8 –

Base 1-3 inches -Trail is in Poor to Fair Condition. The closer to Brimley the more snow/ice.

Brimley to Raco, Trail #8 –

Base 1-5 inches -Trail is in Poor to Fair Condition. Make sure you go with the flow of traffic when crossing the bridge. Shoulders are bare going thru Brimley.

Raco to Naomikong Trail #8 [where Paradise meets us], Trail #8 –

Base 3-8 inches – Trail is Fair to Good Condition. Very icy.

Sault Ste. Marie City Trail, Trails #497, #449, parts of #8 & #49 –

Base 1-4 inches – Trail is in Poor Condition. Lots of low snow areas of snow/dirt mixture.

City curfew is from 1am – 6 am. Remember most City streets are open to traffic, 20 mph, stop at all intersections, and ride the right hand side of street not on side walks. Watch for closed streets that are posted, mainly around the hospital, university, and state trunk lines.

Sault Ste. Marie to Kinross, Trail #49 –

Base 0-3 inches – Trail is in a Poor Condition. When the trail is running along roads make sure you go with the flow of traffic on the right side of the road.

The Downtown Trail is CLOSED and not been groomed.

Martin Cottle, Grooming Chairman

Sault Ste. Marie Snowmobile Association

I am proud to report that all of the work has paid off and rewarded with trail conditions that are about the best we have seen all season! Driver and riders both are reporting that all of our trails are in good/very good/excellent condition. Only just a couple of rather partially bare spots on the RR Grade out of Iggy on the open areas persist. We totally lost the base in those spots, so we are going to need a decent amount more snow to get them going again. Otherwise, even the rest of the Grade is in good shape. In fact, most of the persistent rocks are gone too! The rest of the trails have between 4″ & 8″ of well packed base, with flat highway type conditions. Just a few corners have that ice base poking through bot overall you can’t complain about what we have. Toddmeister took some nice pics of the trails, so check out his post here: http://www.straitsareasnowmobileclub…ead.php?t=1145

The weather forecast for our area in 3 different spots is reporting a big storm on Wednesday – by far the biggest of the season. I guess we will see, but if we do get that 10″ they are predicting, then riding would not get any better period. Plan what could be the last great weekend of sledding.

Another busy weekend for me, and after the (same ‘ol same ‘ol) groomer show and then charity event on Saturday, I have to take the first plane to Mackinac Island on Sunday to work all day. Riding the island right now is good, everything is snow covered and smooth. Looking at the ice on the way back, if it stays cold, they may attempt to bring the ice bridge back again, as it is frozen all the way across again, with only a couple of water holes. 0-10d nights may give them another couple weeks of crossings.

While we were working downtown, firetrucks went out, which turned out to be a false alarm at Mission Point.

— Neil – VP Straits Area Snowmobile Club

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