Think long term...............

The forecast still isn't looking any better for the weekend, than it was before.  How much R will we see?  Only time will tell, hopefully we only see a little R and people respect the thin base we do have.  It could be a blessing, as they are calling for temps to drop back into the teens by Sunday night.  So the base we have now, could become a solid ice base for the season.

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It's quiet..........

Traffic has been so light today, you wouldn't even know it's snowmobile season.  I don't think I saw more than a dozen sleds getting gas all day.  I'll let you know later how it is.  Because I'm heading out for a ride now.

Ride Up Date:
We headed over to Pine Tree and did 74 miles.  I'll list what trails we took and my rating on them.  Overall I'd say conditions are fair with some good, but I don't know how they would hold up to really heavy traffic. I can say we had a nice ride and I'm happy I went.

1 F-G
pipeline F-G
Cut off trail to Brantingham ends poor center good
Brant rd good
trail at Kovaks  mostly poor some fair
9 G
89 G
8 G
Lower 5 F - G

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How low............

It went down to 20 below this morning and that sure helped with freezing things down.  You'll see what I mean at the end of today's video.  Traffic was very light today again, so that also gave everything a good chance to freeze down with today's  low temps.

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It's amazing.............

You wouldn't think it, but it's amazing what 3 to 4 inches of snow can do for the conditions and it showed it yesterday.  Is it perfect?  Heck no, but it was good enough to go out for a 45 mile ride last night.  I've gotten a few calls on this one today........the weather for the end of the week.  Who knows!  Give it till Wednesday and then worry about it.  We all know it'll change a few times before it gets here.  Let's just hope it's for the better.

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Looking better.............

We didn't see much of anything, when it comes to snow overnight.  But late this morning we had a bank of lake effect set up and it stuck around long enough to give us a good 3 to 4 inches of nice wet snow.  Nothing to go crazy over, but the snow stick is closer to the foot mark than it was yesterday at this time.

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No question.........

We need more snow, there's no question about it.  But what we do have, seems to be enough to keep things cool and keep the track from sticking.  However I'm sure it's doing a number on the carbides.  As for traffic, there isn't a thousand sleds around town, like most weekends in the winter.  But I'd say there's a hundred or two by what I saw.

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Happy New Year !

The lake effect has been moving all around today and so far we haven't seen all that much from it.  But as you can see in the below pic, Stillwater was getting hammered at 3pm.  So cross your fingers and get a dancing, so the bands of lake effect stay in the area for awhile.

Stillwater

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