TheMainer

We're a bit southeast of the mountains, but hoping it works out here, can't take anymore rain at this point. Nice snow squal going on as I'm driving up to give the boys working on the groomer some parts, only nice thing about a delay to winter is we're getting a bunch of preventative maintenance done.

The year I snowmobiled until the last weekend in April?

The state threw some emergency funds at clubs that already got swept up, but looking at another pool of funding coming supposedly to fix washouts and bridges. We've checked half our system and so far so good, but the two bridges I'm most concerned about I'm looking at tomorrow. Hoping they're still there as one is close to 40 feet long

That really sucks for you guys, those VT hills picking up speed and funnelling water is no joke. Here is the brand new bridge in Strong Maine they built gone again.

Oh yeah for sure, further south in Maine or no ITS trails I think we might see quite a bit of trails closed. Around Franklin county they were finally recovering from this spring storm with all the bridges and trails washed away, probably gonna have to do it all again...

Gonna try to walk/drive all 34 miles of our trails this weekend because if we need to bring in fill or rebuild a bridge we got to do it sooner rather than later if we want to be snowmobiling this winter, what a miserable stupid storm, I wish it was November instead

Currently almost flooded completely in here in the great brown north, luckily we live on a hill and currently have power, but only one way out of town right now since the river flooded over everywhere else, think we're past peak now though. Highest flood ive ever seen in my 32 years, worst since 1987

Hopefully we will be!

Got to put 20 miles on the ol lady's sled running around the pond ice fishing today while waiting for mine to come in. Lot of the local lakes have 5-8 inches of ice now which this downpour won't touch so at least we'll be fishing next weekend even with bare ground around.

All I want for early Christmas present is a 60 mile shift southeast!

That looks ideal as a bad cutter could get here, 0.5" of rain and temps stay in the 30s and we'll still have a base

6 inches here so far in the middle of Maine, still snowing. Might go out on sleds this weekend to cut some blowdowns since we had 3 inches of icy crust before. Too bad about this weekend, this was a good start

Got a new (to us) groomer to try out this winter, we still have an icy crust left, hoping for around 6-8 inches so I can drag an old bridge into a big water hole to fill it and get out and cut blowdowns on sleds. New sled hopefully will be here before Christmas. Definitely feels and looks as though we may break the trend of the past 3 crappy winters hopefully.

We're saddle bagging from the house to the Northern Door in Ft Kent for a 3 dayer that Friday through Sunday, back through the woods via St John River and Churchill dam, hoping for a whiff for sure cause we'll already be pushing it on fuel Sunday! Could be a really good March for snowmobiling, our trails are in great shape, will be better after we get this storm and Thursday groomed out. Hoping we can ride from the house til March 24th like a normal year since it started so late.

Interesting snow hole over Lac St Jean in Quebec, been riding there a few times and it's always a bit skinny compared to all other directions from there. We ended up with 5 inches, compacting in the warmth (~33.8F), but should give us another good weekend of snowmobiling

Snowing nicely here, hoping for 4 inches to give me something to work with in the groomer tomorrow night. 11-12 is the earliest id ever been done snowmobiling in middle of March after that 80 degree stretch. Only one of two winters in my past 19 years of riding I didn't ride in April at least once.

About 5 inches of sloppy snow here, thinking it's just enough to still get the grooming done, was really hoping for 8 inches. Usually we're in the snowbelt up here and never have these issues...

Around 20 degrees here, radar looks to be filing in but nothing getting to the surface yet. Gotta be up somewhat early for work so I can groom later tomorrow afternoon and all day Friday (assuming this doesn't fall apart). Bout to take a weed gummy so I conk out and don't stay up all night worrying.

Fingers crossed this verifies then the whole region will be snowmobiling and get some money into the businesses

Got about 4 inches here, happy with that as it was about right in the middle of the forecasted amount, hoping for 8 inches Thursday and we'll have our whole trail system open for this weekend

Yeah same happened end of January and beginning of February last year, 2 back to back storms over a foot, hard yanking a drag through almost 30 inches of snow up some of our hills, but our machine climbs really well thankfully, at this point I'd take whatever we can get, haha.

Hoping for a combined foot by the end of next week, ended up grooming yesterday, that 3-4 inches of sleety stuff gave us just enough to work with for our first grooming run of the year, but definitely need quite a bit more.

Monson with 7 inches this morning in town, Dover probably 3 inches, then it started pouring rain but was still pretty cold out. Hoping we dryslot rain soon

Yeah I have been on conference calls most of the afternoon, I'll have to see if CAR shifted anything in their AFD. We're almost there right now, Moosehead lake finally locked up last night too, not terribly later than usual, but this snow, rain and warm isn't gonna help ice. We ended up with about 8 inches at 500 ft elevation in Willimantic, 12 inches in downtown Monson, and 16 to almost 18 inches north of town at 1,100 ft elevation. That storm was definitely sharp cutoff by elevation. Was hoping for a repeat with this storm cause then we would have really been in business!

22 degrees and some nice mood flakes falling north of the 45th. Still have a solid crusty base, hoping for a net gainer out of this at least, we're like 8 inches from grooming, but the 3/4 inches of rain after a sloppy 4 inches isn't gonna get us there.