St. Ignace Trail Report – 01/14
Looks like we are settling into that mid-January pattern where it warms up and we get no snow. Forecast for the coming week isn’t good for the trails, it is supposed to touch 32 on Saturday, and be upper 20s with really no new snow until next week sometime. Overall trails are in pretty good shape. Remember all of the snow so far this season is dry lake effect, so it is packing down thin. Speaking of, there are really only 2 really tin areas to worry about, and they are the same every year, the mile RR Grade next to Hay lake, just North of Iggy, and the 2 miles of the grade just South of Moran. Other then that things are in pretty decent shape for what we have to work with, and the great news is the water hole South of Trout Lake is frozen over, so no hazard there. So for this coming weekend, trails will be ridable – mid-early season conditions. There are currently trailers in the parking lot. You can ride out of Iggy and will find those couple little issues. You can certainly trailer further North if you feel the need. I understand that TASA has reached Epoufette, and halfway to Trout Lake. The Chasers are grooming into the North side of Trout Lake, trails ridable going North. We are NOT grooming our Cedarville connector, as Cedarville is not grooming yet, so we will concentrate on our core system for now, and will groom that up starting next week. __________________ ———
— Neil
VP Straits Area Snowmobile Club