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Who's having a bad snowmobile season

Got you beat! Waist deep snow here, trails groomed to perfection! Grandkids come home for Christmas and have Croop! So I get a pneumonia bronchial thing that started in mid Dec. Spend the last three months coughing up a lung every morning and every time I went outside. Never mind waking up and sitting on side of bed trying to breath! Just start to feel a better and get it back oh and a flu! Now the temps are rising, snow is melting, roads are all shot to hell and I'm feeling a bit better! I can actually draw in a full deep breath! Still coughing and feeling it but much better. Havn't got the energy to clear a 1/4 mile of trail crisscrossed so thick with bent over and broken trees that even the deer are not using it! So here I am wishing the snow would melt so I can get my Bike out, try again next year! Worst winter in the last 45 years!
 

NOS-PRO said:
My local trails won't even open this year because snow keeps fading away with rain and warm temps. Adding to this is that my local trails opened up last year for 3 days I think? And the year before that was maybe 4 days?

Bad when you pay trail passes for 4 sleds and only get to ride the trails a couple days.[/QUOUTE]

I only buy one buts its 187.50. Lucky I didn't buy my Manitoba Pass that would have been another 150.00!
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03RX1-ER-LE said:
The problem of riding lakes, studed or not, without snow is two fold, hyfax burns up from no snow/lube and the sled will overheat from no snow on the heat exchangers.
I see your located near my cabin, I am on Vanetten lake off Loud and have had to go to the UP the last two seasons to ride. 1600 miles so far this season, 1400 last season in the UP also.
Have owned my place in Oscoda for 20 years, having not to be able to ride there the last two seasons is very discouraging. I am hoping to do one more trip before 4/1 when the trails close.
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I rode last spring on the lake, no snow pure ice and rock hard snow on the edges. With studs it would stay cool and lube the hyfax if you kept the speed down. Also you can't drive to slow either about 30mph seems to work! 50 60mph was the top limit on glass ice with no slider problems but couple times light came on. Drift to the shore and the studs tore the rock hard frozen enough to cool it back down. That was with my Warrior, my Apex would not have done as well and would have overheated.
 
Mooseman said:
Our season is done with barely 100km this season. I was planning to trailer to North Bay to do the trails there and meet up with my sons but their trails also just closed. This is the second bad season in a row. A third strike and I'm out. I can't take this anymore.
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Last year trails melted in Feb so we headed to Hearst, Timmins area! Could have snowed there into April! Everyone from Southern Ontario and all over the states was there sledding, some Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well!
 
@20/80 did you get any sledding in with the big storm NS got? A few of my friends that live in NS have been out, but its melting fast!!!
 
HUNT 24/7 said:
@20/80 did you get any sledding in with the big storm NS got? A few of my friends that live in NS have been out, but its melting fast!!!
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No, the snow was 7 hrs north of me, turned to rain here, couldn't get a crew together to go on a 3 day trip to northern NB with everyone's work schedule not lining up to go, that's the evil with owning a snowmobile in NS, last year I was snowmobiling on April 1 with 2-3 feet of snow in this area, oh well.. I got 3 enjoyable miles on this year, it has been the worst year in a long time around these parts.
 
Riding is still good in central, northern, and western ME.
 
Bad season for me also ,only 5400 miles on this year .
 
krm said:
Bad season for me also ,only 5400 miles on this year .
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would take me ten good winters to get that many miles, some day when I retire my hopes are to do some traveling to different sled destinations, if i'm still on the right side of the sod.
 
20/80 said:
No, the snow was 7 hrs north of me, turned to rain here, couldn't get a crew together to go on a 3 day trip to northern NB with everyone's work schedule not lining up to go, that's the evil with owning a snowmobile in NS, last year I was snowmobiling on April 1 with 2-3 feet of snow in this area, oh well.. I got 3 enjoyable miles on this year, it has been the worst year in a long time around these parts.
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Yes sir, thats to bad! you must be down there quite a ways if you were 7 hours from snow! The trails are groomed up by the highway on the Cobequid pass, I was by there today, not sure if its any good, but it looked decent from the road! Haha
 
Has been decent in nova scotia around collingwood, sutherlands, folly areas. Made a few trips there. Has sucked around amherst though. Think we got 7-800 miles on this year and had to trailer for 75% of those.
 
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