Mileage Update

[DIwarrior]

Heading to Bay Mills Saturday for 4 days, is it still worth the trip? Mixed information on the trail reports.

We rode Brimley to Grand Marais and back M-T. Lots of snow in the woods, Newberry and Seney groomed excellent, GM groomed very good. Gas stops, pit stops, roads, mostly bare, expect water holes in some wet areas. Spring loging has started around Silver Creek, and Seney, muddy for short distances. (1/4 - 1/2 mile) Temps are forecast in the 40’s for the weekend. Had some rain yesterday. Expect salty puddles, and muddy side road runs, Trail 8 south of Paradise was starting to breakup. South of 28 is thinner.

 

[03RX1-ER-LE]

We rode Brimley to Grand Marais and back M-T. Lots of snow in the woods, Newberry and Seney groomed excellent, GM groomed very good. Gas stops, pit stops, roads, mostly bare, expect water holes in some wet areas. Spring loging has started around Silver Creek, and Seney, muddy for short distances. (1/4 - 1/2 mile) Temps are forecast in the 40’s for the weekend. Had some rain yesterday. Expect salty puddles, and muddy side road runs, Trail 8 south of Paradise was starting to breakup. South of 28 is thinner.

Was hoping to go from Casino to Trout lake to Newberry to Paradise, heard Paradise town trial not good heading back to Brimley temps look promising until tuesday night. May have to trailer to some trail heads?

 

[DIwarrior]

Was hoping to go from Casino to Trout lake to Newberry to Paradise, heard Paradise town trial not good heading back to Brimley temps look promising until tuesday night. May have to trailer to some trail heads?

Paradise has tons of snow, from the casino only the parking lot was bare. Trail had plenty of snow, just not groomed recently. The trail thru Newberry, the alleyway, we were told was bare, so we avoided it and went thru Paradise both days. North route going up, by the Falls coming back. Good luck!

 

[THKSNOW]

2,700 + and winter isn't over yet...

 

[Carbide]

About 1,000. Was hoping to get up one more time but it sounds iffy up north.
So it's time for more skiing at Lutsen.

 

[03RX1-ER-LE]

So been riding in the UP since Saturday afternoon, spring like conditions from 42 and sunny saturday and sunday to 28 today. Any trail that uses a plowed road is mud and tough to navigate, snow piles on edge however somewhat passible. So where it is a groomed trail they have been awesome. Passed groomer last night coming from paradise so going out to check the trails now. This might be it today, will find out shortly. Been a hell off a season for me. Damn close to 3k miles.

 

[Wannaviper]

There is plenty of snow in northern Maine, but I have to close out my season with just over 3,100 miles. We just rode 350 miles in a short weekend. Yesterday was perfect spring weather with mid-winter trail conditions. It was about 35 degrees and sunny when I buried myself in a snowdrift of fresh powder. What a way to end the season. 2,0006 of my miles were on a Sidewinder LTX DX, and with the addition of some QS3 front shocks, it is the Yamaha sled that I have always dreamed about. (It rides like a Coupe de Ville and handles like a Corvette.)

 

[Al Bundy]

There is plenty of snow in northern Maine, but I have to close out my season with just over 3,100 miles. We just rode 350 miles in a short weekend. Yesterday was perfect spring weather with mid-winter trail conditions. It was about 35 degrees and sunny when I buried myself in a snowdrift of fresh powder. What a way to end the season. 2,0006 of my miles were on a Sidewinder LTX DX, and with the addition of some QS3 front shocks, it is the Yamaha sled that I have always dreamed about. (It rides like a Coupe de Ville and handles like a Corvette.)

Tell me you were not the one walking down the trail around Stratton drinking the bud light!?

Only about 600 miles this year for me but I did lots of ice fishing so that made up for it.

 

[Wannaviper]

Tell me you were not the one walking down the trail around Stratton drinking the bud light!?

Only about 600 miles this year for me but I did lots of ice fishing so that made up for it.

No alcoholic beverages were involved. I was about a mile from the base of Coburn Mountain (south of Jackman) cruising down a connector trail, and came around a corner right into a drift. If I had stayed on the throttle, I would have cleared it, but I backed off and got hung up right in the middle. (Thank goodness for the "snow bungee.")

 

[Al Bundy]

No alcoholic beverages were involved. I was about a mile from the base of Coburn Mountain (south of Jackman) cruising down a connector trail, and came around a corner right into a drift. If I had stayed on the throttle, I would have cleared it, but I backed off and got hung up right in the middle. (Thank goodness for the "snow bungee.")

I always wondered about the snow bungee. From what I heard yesterday, they're going to groom Eustis, Stratton, Carabassett until next weekend. The trails were pretty damn sweet till the end of the day.

 

[Wannaviper]

Not to "hi-jack" the thread, but we never ride without a snow bungee in our group. Aside from the people I ride with, I have pulled more than a half dozen other people out of ditches with my bungee in the last two years. I have the extension strap that allows for more distance between the stuck sled and the pulling sled, and it also makes a good tow strap when a buddy breaks down.

 

[Deeppow16]

Not to "hi-jack" the thread, but we never ride without a snow bungee in our group. Aside from the people I ride with, I have pulled more than a half dozen other people out of ditches with my bungee in the last two years. I have the extension strap that allows for more distance between the stuck sled and the pulling sled, and it also makes a good tow strap when a buddy breaks down.

We use them in the mountain and they work great and are super nice to have. It allows you to pull from the ski but stay out of the way of the sled so you don't get rode over.

 

[maim]

always snow bungee in my saddle bag. makes life so much easyer.