Greetings Sledders,

I hate seeing two ambulances heading in either direction on Old 27 in front of our place, in this case Southbound, which could easily be another sled accident. Which is what just happened as I sat down to write this, the ambulance part, not sure if there’s been an accident. Let’s hope not we’ve already had a fatality and three young ladies from Ohio injured and the season is young. Please be careful.

Sorry for the delay in getting this out tonight seems that I’m back in the Grooming saddle once again and this stretch through the weekend will be double duty due to a lack of drivers because of people visiting for the holidays. Come on now I ask you (well not YOU per se as none of you are groomer jockeys that I know of) what’s more important, grooming trails or setting around shooting the bull with someone you may or may not want to shoot the bull with to begin with? Although one of the guys did mention that he’d like to take his Mother By Law out for a tractor ride and possibly not back.

LET’S DO IT, TIME FOR A COCKTAIL AND UNWIND:

GROOMING:
I found out today that rubber and ice don’t like each other much and it doesn’t matter what configuration the rubber is in, tracks or tires. Some parts of one’s anatomy tighten up and other parts like the heart work faster when you’re in an eleven foot tall, fifty foot long, 22,000 pound machine and it starts getting squirrelly on an icy road. It doesn’t have to move too much to trigger the aforementioned bodily things.
We are in full swing with the schedule. Everything will be back in shape by the end of the day tomorrow with the main segments already done and those segments will get hit daily for the rest of the week.

TRAILS:
About the only mildly negative thing that I can say about the trails is that the heavily travelled segments still show some snirty stretches and those are healing with each new snowfall we get and will improve. There’s a fair amount of traffic locally and much more around Fredericanville. So we will have to contend with that aspect for a few days until the holiday stretch concludes.

WEATHER:
Nothing bad here. Temps are supposed to hold and drop by Thursday and a shot of snow on a daily basis. We don’t need tons at a time which really doesn’t do squat, just a few inches here and there to keep things fresh, thank you very much.

Next report Thurs. evening.

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

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