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Trail Report – : Sayner, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:SaynerStar Lake Barnstormers

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: Remarkable

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

Anybody that has ridden our system knows we have had equipment issues. Some people that don’t want to give us the benefit of the doubt think we just decided not to groom. However, nothing could be further from the case.

We have been fighting a perfect storm of equipment issues. Our wheel machines were set up for the kind of hard/icy conditions we have had year after year. However, they are not meant to deal with the kind of major snows like we have been getting of recent times. Add onto that – our one track machine went down with a computer related Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) system – problem. We got a loaner and it went down. So we bit the bullet and purchased a new track machine. We took delivery of it a week ago last Friday. The issues with our older track machine also got repaired. So great – we had 2 track machines up & running, we were back in a more normal regular schedule, and getting things back in shape. Well as our Murphys Law Luck would have it, we had another issue with our new machine this time. We had to take our machine from Star Lake down to Sayner to go out and rescue the new unit. We did get the Star Lake unit right back in service but one groomer can only cover so much at one time. We do have nearly 80 miles of trail. The good news is that as of today (Monday 3/4/19) we have the new machine just about ready to go back out again.

We are going to hit it hard tomorrow – with 2 machines – and do our best to get things back in excellent condition. We will hit the trails first that have been the most neglected. We WILL have the entire system ready for the coming weekend.

Believe us – no one hates our system being rough anymore than we do. All we can do is apologize for the rough conditions and we promise to do everything humanly possible to smooth things out again.

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Trail Report – : Oconto County, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Oconto County Tourism

Trail Conditions: Unknown

Snow Cover: 10-14

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

Snowmobile Trail Reports:

Red Arrow Snowmobile Trails (Townsend) – 3/4/2019

It’s -12 degrees in beautiful downtown Townsend this morning. The trails are in excellent riding condition. The groomers were out last night and that was their report. This mornings riders will find the trails hard and and fast!! Get out early and enjoy. Watch for deer on the trails.

Paul Bunyan (Lakewood) – 3/4/2019

Monday 6 am. The groomers were out last night and at 12 below the trails are set up in excellent condition. There will be awesome trails to ride, and with the weather forecast for the next couple weeks trails should be great till late in the month. Be careful for deer and signs that are hard to see do to the depth of the snow. Ride safe !!

Chute Pond Snowmobile Trails (Suring/Mountain) – Chute Pond trails are open, being groomed, and are in very good condition. Grooming will be ongoing- so please watch for them on the trail any time of day or night- and always yield the right of way to the groomers. Stay to the right, and enjoy your ride!

Bagley and Brazeau Joyriders Snowmobile Trails – 2/26/19

B&B Joyriders trails are in excellent condition again this week. The groomers will be out on the trails throughout the week. So be careful for the groomers on the trails. Also watch out for deer on the trails, they are using the trails to move around. If you ride to Suring, the old trail is closed through the golf course, but the trail does go around the golf course by using the side of the road, it will bring you back into town.

Gillett – 2/28/19

Gillett trails are in great shape after last weekends winds. We groomed hard and go through all the drifts, some areas are a little narrower now, but with regular grooming they should be back to their normal width soon. There is lots of snow on the trails now get out and enjoy.

Oconto Falls Sno-Jokers – 3/2/19

Groomers were out and all trails were groomed multiple times this last week and with 3-5 inches of fresh powder, they should be awesome this weekend. Obviously with a lot of traffic, they will get a little rough. Thanks to our groomer drivers for all their time! Ride safe and enjoy them while they last.

Lena Snowdrifters- Trails are open and in good to excellent condition. Grooming regularly.

Chase Sno Chasers Trails – Trails are open and in very good to excellent condition.

Trail Report – : Washburn County, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Washburn County

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 13-19″

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

All Washburn County Snowmobile trails remain open with excellent snow conditions. More new snow was received over the weekend so clubs are out in force, regularly grooming the trails. Riders will find a snow base of 13 to 19 inches. Enjoy the trails!!

Make sure you get your new trail map to start planning your snowmobile trip by visiting washburncounty.org/contact/

Trail Report – : Spooner and Washburn County, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Washburn County

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 13 – 19″

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

Make sure you get your new trail map to start planning your snowmobile trip by visiting washburncounty.org/contact/

Trail Report – : Boulder Junction, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:boulderwi

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 30-40 inches

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

Trail report for March 4, 2019– Trails are very good. It is currently about 20 Deg below zero. Brrrrr! With the very cold temps at night the trails stiffen up and stay flatter longer. We will be out tonight and tomorrow morning with our groomers to lay down a nice trail for you. With the expected lower traffic during the beginning of the week you should experience a great ride. With the enlarged size of snowbanks use caution at intersection road crossings with diminished visibility. We had a very great successful cabin fever party fundraiser at Gooch’s A-1 Bar over the weekend. I would like to thank Gooch and his staff, all the volunteers, and everyone who came out to support this event. A very special thank you goes out to Jen Beda for her great job and time organizing this event. Looks like we have great snow conditions to last to the ending date of the snowmobile trails closing on March 31, 2019 There will be no extensions! Get out there and ride the trails now. Remember to be safe, ride right, and enjoy the ride.

~Jim (Hammy) Hamilton, Boulder Junction Snowmobile Club President

Trail Report – : Crivitz, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:ironsnowshoe

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: Two Feet

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

March 4th and we still have awesome trails! I know the snow is a bit much for many people, but all us snowmobilers are really getting in some great riding.

All three groomers are out and reporting back great results. With the cold weather upon us, these trails will hold up for another great weekend coming up!

There are a lot of deer on the trail because the snow is so deep in the woods. PLEASE do not chase them. Take you time…they will get out of the way. ALSO, PLEASE stay on the marked trails. The snow is very deep outside of the beaten down path. We also need to RESPECT our landowners.

Everyone is still looking for the bunny in the box! Get your clues from the business owners. Find that box. It is worth lots of $$$$$$$’s…

Trail Report – : Forest County, Wisconsin – March 5, 2019

Reporter:forestco

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 12″ to 16″

Date of Report: March 5, 2019

Area Report:

The trails have a 12″ to 16″ base and are in good to excellent condition.

We cannot stress enough to RIDE SAFELY and RESPONSIBLY. Trail conditions vary greatly throughout the County. Always use caution when riding on lakes and frozen water as ice conditions will vary.

The clubs that maintain the Forest County trail system are made up of volunteers who work very hard to provide the best trails possible. Please respect them while on the trail. When approaching a groomer or member doing trail maintenance, please slow down and move over so they can do their job

Trail Report – : Western UP, Michigan – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Western U.P. Snowmobile Report

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 18-36

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

Western U.P. Trail Report – Western U.P. Bureau – 03/04

Western U P Snowmobile Report
March 1, 2019
Snowmobile report

Temps for the next couple of days will be single digits to low teens for the highs and with a -2 with some snow showers. Trails are the best they have been in years. There is still plenty of time to come up for some great riding. WARNING AND NOTICE: JUST EAST OF TRAIL 1 TO PRESQUE ISLE, WI JUST EAST OF MARENISCO IS A LARGE WATER HOLE. PLEASE RIDE SLOW.

THE GOGEBIC RANGE TRAIL AUTHORITY reports on 3/1/19 grooming is ongoing. If you see a groomer please pull over and let them pass. Overall the trails are all groomed from our storm last weekend. Trails are narrow and will be working on widen them as grooming continues.

Trail 2 from Hurley to Ramsay Crossing is excellent was last groomed 2/27/19. Please do not ride on sidewalks near Holiday and try to keep the noise down in town.

Trail 2 from Ramsay Crossing to Wakefield is very good was last groomed 2/28/19. PLEASE REMEBER TO CROSS US HWY 2 IN THE CORRECT LANE OF TRAVEL, DO NOT BLOCK HWY TURN LANES!

Wakefield to Marenisco is excellent was lasted groomed 2/26/19. This trail is a mix of twisty but wide forest roads (13mi) and 12mi of rail bed to Marenisco. This beautiful trail is 12 miles of unplowed wide logging roads that wind their way through the Gogebic Range Hills before running 10 miles of rail-trail to Marenisco. PLEASE STOP AT ALL STOP SIGNS ON THE RAIL TRAIL! There is a significant logging presence on FR-8100 with dozens of log trucks hauling out daily. Last week an accident occurred with a log truck. Stop at the stop signs!!

Trail 8 from Bingos to Tula Crossing is excellent and was last groomed 2/27/19. Bingo’s is closed and has no gas….

Trail 160 from Walmart to Montreal River (WI) is excellent last groomed 2/27/19. This is their most scenic trail and a treat to ride! Stay on the trail in the farm fields. Over 25 landowners are involved to make this trail a reality, please respect them and ride responsibly.

Trail 11S is in excellent condition it was last groomed 2/28/19. It is groomed all the way to the WI line. This 17 mile long trail has 2 stop signs and is a wilderness tour. The southern 3 miles get thinner, but remains in good condition.

Trail 11 N is closed indefinitely.

THE GOGEBIC AREA GROOMERS report from 2/25/19. We received over 20” of snow with our most recent blizzard. Gogebic Area Grooming will be heading out to break trails soon, but they have one groomer down due to mechanical issues. Parts are being ordered today they hope to have it up and running by Wednesday. Groomers ask that you please be patient as it is going to take some effort to get the trails back in shape. We will update when we know that groomers are heading out. Temps are brisk today and don’t get much past the mid teens. Snow (again) in the forecast for Wednesday and then on Friday.

Please be safe and use caution and good judgment.

WATERSMEET WHITE THUNDER RIDERS reports 3/1/19:

We are grooming daily. Trails are very good condition, lots of snow!!

Trail 2 West of Watersmeet – Excellent!

Trail 2 East of Watersmeet- Very good condition

Trail 13 South to Cisco Chain- Excellent

Trail 3 south to Land O’Lakes- Very good condition. There is lots of traffic on this trail and it’s very hard to keep smooth, use caution on bridge approaches.

Trail 3 north to Paulding/Bond Falls/Bruce Crossing- Excellent

PLEASE STAY ON MARKED TRAILS. RUNNING ON UNMARKED TRAILS CAN RESULT IN LOSING EASMENT OF THE TRAILS AND ALSO A POSSIBLE TICKET FOR YOU.

Trail Report – : Rhinelander, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Hodag SnoTrails

Trail Conditions: Excellent

Snow Cover: 20+ on the ground

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

The brief cold snap really helped the trails set up over the last few days. It took almost all week to get the trails into excellent condition, but I think most trails were in great shape for the weekend. The groomers will be out regularly to put them in excellent shape this week and going into the weekend.

One of the only things to be mindful out there, is with the extremely high snow depth, some of the trail signs are not as visible as usual. Club members and groomer drivers have been working on digging out / replacing signs were appropriate. Please be aware of that as you ride the trails.

The trails don’t get much better condition as these.

Lake crossings could be a bit rough with all of the snow and minor slushy areas.

Trail Report – : Eagle River, Wisconsin – March 4, 2019

Reporter:Holly t

Trail Conditions: Good

Snow Cover: Plenty of SNOW over a hard ice base

Date of Report: March 4, 2019

Area Report:

EAGLE RIVERS TRAILS
On average GOOD

March 4 2019 6:54am – 19 below – High 6

This Monday will be a cold one. 19 below zero this early AM & it will be a struggle to get above zero until near noon. Then only a high of 6 today. Sunny this morning & cloudy this afternoon. Below zero at night until Friday. Daytime temps will start warming on Thursday. Next snow forecast to move in Saturday night into Sunday. Stay tuned pretty far in advance forecasting.

Extremely heavy traffic this weekend. Last night nearly all of the Eagle River trails that Sno-Eagles maintain were groomed. The following trails were not groomed:

10E to include 9mile & Chanitcleer Inn trail
1S aka Grampa Grahm,
Section of 70/W from the trail 7S turn heading west to the St. Germain BoBoen connect

Even with the heavy traffic trail riding was pretty good. Rode yesterday starting on 10E which was in VERY GOOD condition. This all the way east to the Three Lakes connect & later heading home from town as we circled around into Three Lakes & Phelps trails heading into town on 17. Check out Three Lakes & Phelps report for an update on those trails. Did see deer on 17. Good 17 was groomed last night as it had seen plenty of trail & was rough. Should be fine today. Trail 13/3/10 in town was GOOD. Even though temps only got up to around 6 the snow had softened from the sun. But still plenty of snow all the way through town heading north & south. The “grade” heading south as far as the 10E turn off is EXCELLENT. Saw no snirt in town & none on the section of 10E between Loon Lake Rd to Bloom Rd. No icy in there either all snow covered. Did see a couple of deer in that section too. Corners are filled high with snow everywhere but no icy on the trails. Only icy conditions were on a few of the road trails. Did not ride Eagle or Catfish lake trails. Was told best to stay right by the orange barrels as there is a lot of drifting on Eagle & layered slush on Catfish. All in all trails are on average GOOD.

Here are other important updates:

Trail 10W/13N aka Wisconsin River Bridge Trail has reopened. Please use caution.

There is 1 logging operations going on where there is a need to use parts of the trails. Trail 13N by Deep Lake Rd. Plus utility work on 7 near Sugar Camp on the high line.

The snowbanks at driveway crossing & road crossings are still high. Road crews are still out winging road banks. Expect some blocked road & driveway crossings. Please stop & cross with caution.

Still seeing some signs buried in the deep SNOW.

EAGLE LAKE TRAIL & CATFISH LAKE TRAIL ARE MARKED & OPEN. Lakes are drifted & lots & lots of slush under the SNOW especially on Catfish Lake. Drifting on Eagle Lake is much worse than on Catfish Lake.

The 2 one-way trail areas are 10E from the ERRA Sports Arena all the way out to Nicolet Mini Mart. The other is the 13’s up near Buckatabon Bridge & Bauer’s Dam area. Please be aware that for now signs will be buried in many locations. PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK A MAP SO YOU KNOW THE LOCATION OF THESE TRAILS.

See ya on the trails. Give the groomers 2 thumbs up!

Holly Tomlanovich
THE SNOWMOBILE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD® – Eagle River
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News and Reports:

Wednesday & Thursday – Trail Rides – Meet at the Historic Railroad Depot on “the grade” Trail 13/3 at 9am. Contact Club Pres., Howard Wolf 262.442.4876
Tuesday, March 5 – Sno-Eagles Board meeting – 6pm – Snowmobile Hall of Fame – Hwy 45N
Saturday & Sunday, March 9 & 10 – USSA Series Snowmobile Race – World Championship Derby Complex
Thursday, March 21 – General Member meeting – 6:30pm gathering with 7pm meeting – Eagle Waters Resort
SNO(Saturday Night Out) – Pike’s Pine Isle – 5:30pm gathering with 6pm dinner – 1261 Pine Isle Rd, Three Lakes

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