Another Winter Storm.... headed for Michigan

Its an exciting time again, with another winter storm headed into Michigan. We're under a Winter Storm Warning, and we're all hoping that the precip we get is ALL SNOW.

Many of you will have already this... so please be patient. I wanted to include my trail report from Monday (for my mother who only reads this blog and not the reports). So here it is the trail report from Rays Retreat Country Inn Monday Feb 26.

We rode 84 miles today. I won't say enjoyed because (and before you start saying what the ?!@# ... noting that I had labeled the trail conditions good... read through this entire report. Alot of it was miserable riding.

It was pretty. Pretty Rough. Groomers must have slept in this morning. The entire ride over to Dingmans (M72) was miserable. We kept thinking about turning around, but we haven't been able to get out and ride that much. So we persevered in hopes of improvement. Stopped into Dingmans to eat where there were several tables of snowmobiles who were all complaining of a rough ride from either direction.

We left Dingmans, getting back on trail 79 heading north and hallelujah!!! A groomer. Sweet riding for the next ten miles, then started getting rough again, and then there was another groomer. Great riding for the next ten miles until we hit trail 4 when it turned miserable again.

I tried going fast (the theory of flying over the bumps), slowed down... either way, it rattled my bones. I just wanted it to end.

Several of the trails which are shared with oil truck roads through Lakes of the North had been plowed down to the bare road!!! What is that all about. I can't remember seeing that this whole season. Did they forget its still snowmobile season and it is a designated trail they share their road with?

One had plowed up an embankment so steep you had to be a stunt rider... I came up on it so quick, didn't realize what was happening and was up and over without spilling. And then proud! then furious! and finally just relieved.

The roller coaster hills along Mancelona Rd were pretty much bare ice from the drifting snow, so be careful.

As we came off Lynn Lake Road, back onto trail 4 through the woods, the groomer approached. The remaining ride home was good. At this point, I was just too exhausted to enjoy it.

The groomers were out that evening and when I went into work at 7:30 Tues morning I saw them both out on the trails. Riders enjoyed their rides Tues. Today it reached 33 degrees and sunshine so the snow was soft, mushy and in some had actual wet spots.

So the approaching storm is appreciated. Hopefully it will dump cold snow.