slow poke Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Just now, slow poke said: Just got back from a week in WY. It was cold and windy and somewhat snowy. Seen very little sun unfortunately. My son even got a little frost bite it was so cold. If anyone is looking for winter conditions, head west. The ridding is great right now out there. We put 160+ miles on the sleds yesterday, rode from our place at Higgins lake to just south of Traverse City. Good ride but did hit about a 5 mile section of trail with very little snow on it south of Fife Lake. Other then that spot, it was pretty good and everyone in our group had a great day. Looking like next weekend might be it for northern lower for a while with the warmup there calling for up there, mid 40's Saturday is what there saying now with no cool down in site after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Don't really do a lot of riding on the trails (people go way too fast.. I'm shocked there isn't more accidents), but did ride from my house to Big Bay yesterday and was surprised to see so little traffic. The trails were fine. For me, the best riding imby is the area between trail 14 and trail 5 around the silver lake basin...tons of logging and power company land and the deepest snow of Marquette County. It's off the beaten track and pretty rugged but worth checking out if passing through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 This winter I have barely touched northern lower.... Every time I have the free time to head up, it's after a rainstorm hits northern lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Winter sports south of I 80, open water fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Took some pics earlier thought I would post them here as well. Picked up about 6-*" of new snow today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slow poke Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 14 hours ago, josh_4184 said: Took some pics earlier thought I would post them here as well. Picked up about 6-*" of new snow today. Looking like Feb should this time of your in your area. Sounds like area's southwest of you might get some decent LES starting Tues night finally with a NNW wind. Places like southern Kalkaska, northern Missaukee and most of Grand Traverse county should pick up some good snow with that wind direction I hope. That's the area we spend most of our time playing off trail. With this coming weekend being Presidents and lots of people being off Monday it's going to be busy I bet rain snow or shine up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share Posted February 13, 2017 18 hours ago, IWXwx said: Winter sports south of I 80, open water fishing. All our lakes are ice covered, but not safe enough to ice fish on. It's a real debacle. I actually saw someone pushing a flat bottom boat on the ice and ice fishing from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XfireLOW Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 I actually trailered over to Ely this last weekend. We mostly rode the small side trails and lakes. Snow won't be as good by next weekend.... You will see in the pictures all of the downed and bent trees. These are all from a storm last July that apparently had 80-90mph straightine winds. The pictures don't do it justice how many trees got taken down throughout the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 5 hours ago, slow poke said: Looking like Feb should this time of your in your area. Sounds like area's southwest of you might get some decent LES starting Tues night finally with a NNW wind. Places like southern Kalkaska, northern Missaukee and most of Grand Traverse county should pick up some good snow with that wind direction I hope. That's the area we spend most of our time playing off trail. With this coming weekend being Presidents and lots of people being off Monday it's going to be busy I bet rain snow or shine up there. Yea Kalkaska and SW of them do really well on NNW flow, my area gets clipped but definitely not my preferred flow of either NW or WNW. Some areas could clean up if a decent Lake Sup - Michigan flow gets established which is known to do in a NNW flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 I'm planning on doing a day trip to Gaylord this Thursday. I don't know when I'll get the chance to ride again after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 3 hours ago, Jonger said: I'm planning on doing a day trip to Gaylord this Thursday. I don't know when I'll get the chance to ride again after that. Riding should be pretty good, should get another 3-6 tonight-tomorrow , picked up about 8" in Saturday Night Sunday last weekend. Trails have been pretty decent especially during the week this year as the Jordan Valley club has been helping the Gaylord club this year due to broken groomer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 I got sick and couldn't go. Picked up my sled trailer and started getting a scratchy throat soon after. Probably going to be a min of 10 days now before anything is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Jonger said: I got sick and couldn't go. Picked up my sled trailer and started getting a scratchy throat soon after. Probably going to be a min of 10 days now before anything is possible. From what I am seeing for this weekend and next week, 50s, sun and then rain, my area will probably be back to zero, so would take a major long lasting cold shot to make things ridable. UP may be okay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 13 hours ago, josh_4184 said: From what I am seeing for this weekend and next week, 50s, sun and then rain, my area will probably be back to zero, so would take a major long lasting cold shot to make things ridable. UP may be okay North of M28 is my rule of thumb. I ride with a guy that has a place in Grand Marais, but even that area is going to take a hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slow poke Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 We're up here riding now, have about 60 miles on so far today, the snow is still pretty good up here west of I-75 around the M-72 area, it's warm and sunny though, tomorrow might be it for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 tonights GFS run has me pumped...only to be deflated as we near the projected event like has been the common theme here for 3 yrs now. But just wow. this baby has potential for the nw side of the sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Some pics from my trip north this past week Gaylord Munising Hiking near Marquette Huron Mtns Munising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 8 hours ago, UMB WX said: tonights GFS run has me pumped...only to be deflated as we near the projected event like has been the common theme here for 3 yrs now. But just wow. this baby has potential for the nw side of the sub. I'm liking the double hitter starting Saturday. I'll 100% be in Gaylord Sunday if that pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said: Some pics from my trip north this past week Great pics Josh. I see you were on county rd 510 on the east edge of the Huron's. The ice waterfall pics aren't too far from me. Hope you enjoyed the area. April 12th last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Nice pics Josh...I especially liked the Munising shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 1 hour ago, weatherbo said: Great pics Josh. I see you were on county rd 510 on the east edge of the Huron's. The ice waterfall pics aren't too far from me. Hope you enjoyed the area. April 12th last year Thanks. I pm'd you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 38 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: Nice pics Josh...I especially liked the Munising shots. Those were my favorite too! Definitely the deepest snow in came across in the UP. Parts of the UP seemed to have as little as 4-6", and munising appeared to have 2.5 feet. Marquette had 18-24" to the west and east with less in the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 Gotta rent a sled some time Josh or come along with me. You will experience 100X the wintery fun that way... You can cover so much ground on those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, Jonger said: Gotta rent a sled some time Josh or come along with me. You will experience 100X the wintery fun that way... You can cover so much ground on those things. I was talking about that with my friends since who likes to ride. I'm doing it next year, tired of never having that experience! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said: Those were my favorite too! Definitely the deepest snow in came across in the UP. Parts of the UP seemed to have as little as 4-6", and munising appeared to have 2.5 feet. Marquette had 18-24" to the west and east with less in the city. Hopefully, that trip will be enough to keep you content for the next 1-2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 19 hours ago, Powerball said: Hopefully, that trip will be enough to keep you content for the next 1-2 weeks. This warmup ends Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 1 hour ago, Jonger said: This warmup ends Friday. TRue, but the problem will still be getting any appreciable snow, aside from hit or miss LES action... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 41 minutes ago, Powerball said: TRue, but the problem will still be getting any appreciable snow, aside from hit or miss LES action... There are 3 storms in a row hitting my favorite spots and LES. If the great lakes weren't there, I wouldn't own a snowmobile. I don't care if it ever snows in Howell again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Through 240, that's good enough for me. We know there will be jackpots and that's where I trailer to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Planning March 11th through 16th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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