Archive for January 2019

January 31, 2019 -13º Yesterday Alan & Ron finished with the Lamtrac maintenance and he should be back on the trail today. Yesterday Jamie and Connor groomed 52 North to the headpond and then groomed 514 to the intersection of 517 then back to North Shore, it was another marathon run taking about 18 hours…

January 30th, 2019 -8º Yesterday Tony and Roger groomed 513 to the Junction of 514, they reported the trail turned out very nice and they had no water issues. The Lamtrac was in the shop yesterday for more maintenance, hopefully we can get more than one trip out of her this time, thanks to Alan,…

January 29th, 2019 -20º Last nights cold temperatures should help with eliminating any water issues we had in our system, hard to believe but yesterday Bobby checked McNeil Brook and it still had about a foot of water flowing over the ice. Yesterday Alan groomed 21 to Black River, but on the way back he…

January 28th, 2019 -4º Yesterday Gary fixed the hitch on the Old BR180 and Kendall used it to groom the Newcastle trails, he didn’t go past Knights Inn as there is a bad water hole in their yard. The rest of the trail was in relatively good shape. We had a piston break on the…

January 27th, 2019 -13º Last night Jamie tried to groom 52 North to the headpond, but was turned back due to water on the Northside of the spurline, we will let it freeze for a day or so, then attempt again. The water before the spurline is very passable, but be very careful if you…

January 26th, 2019 -9º Yesterday we had reports of water laying on the trails in certain places, we would assume with the overnight temps that all this water has turned to ice. We will attempt to do some grooming in the next few days as long as the trails will support the groomers weight without…

January 25th, 2019 0º Our trails should have survived that crazy amount of rain, there will be spots with water laying in them so be careful if you venture out, also want to remind everyone that their is a huge amount of moose sign on most of our trail system especially the northern parts, so…

January 24th, 2019 -7º Looks like a messy day in store, our trails should withstand the rain, it might even help as this last snow we received is like salt, so a bit of moisture will help it set up better. Yesterday Alan groomed trail 21 from the Petro to 52 South then out to…

January 23, 2019 -18º Yesterday Alan tramped all the Southside trails, with this amount of snow, the old Lamtrac just doesn’t seem to have the power to plow through heavy snow so its easier to do it in two passes. Alan also wanted to pass along that there are quite a few moose in the…

January 22, 2019 -14º Hopefully everyone has things cleaned up, we received about 40cm. This snow seems very salt like, so it probably won’t groom up very well, we will be at the trails today and hopefully we will have all the trails groomed up for the weekend. Please be patient as this much snow…