http://woodland-snowmobiles.com Grayling, Michigan Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:35:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the second year in a row, our club's trail groomers started operating on the first of December, the day trails officially open. Snow depth is about a foot according to the National Weather Service, although it seems like more. We've plowed about 4 out of the last ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/2008-2009-snowmobile-season-opens-with-a-bang 43 Degrees and raining in Grayling now. Every day's high temperature has been above freezing for most of this week, and through the weekend that should continue. Surprisingly the trails have been OK up till about two days ago or so. We had two groups of Germans ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/spring Diane and a few friends went out Monday night, snowmobiling to Lovells for dinner and back. Monday morning started out at 40 degrees, but soon cooled off, and by the evening everything was freezing back up. The girls said the trails were very nice, with no dirt/snirt, and ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/59 This is an update from some wonderful customers that stay with us at least twice or three times a year. " Lovells trail out (47) was nice and then trail 4 to Gaylord was sloshy but once you got north of Gaylord to Indian River was beautiful and was the smoothest ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/positive-update Sunday we saw a lot of rain, and very little snow or sleet. Temperatures were up to 37F or so. All of this has frozen now, resulting in a lot of ice everywhere. We had several riders come right back after leaving this morning. They said ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/rain-yesterday-makes-trails-icy-today Why no updates in so long? Well, we've been busy snowmobiling! A very busy several weeks here, and things still look good. Trail Conditions: I went out last night to Lovells and back, in temperatures down to about -4 F. That's cold, I probably shouldn't have worn ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/cold After last week's warm period came a dramatic change. In about 4 hours the temperature dropped from 40 degrees to 5, and the rain changed to snow. Every road was covered with ice, and the 40+mph winds and zero visibility made driving a challenge. It was hard ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/snow-again The last two days have been over 40 degrees, with a bit of rain. After all the traffic of the past week, this has caused some damage to the trails. I see spots of dirt here and there along the Frederic-Gaylord trail. I haven't talked to any ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/warm-up It's been an extremely busy week around here, one of our busiest 10 day periods ever in terms of snowmobile activity. This weekend our motel and cabins are full. Not full of snowmobilers, though -- there is a conference in town dealing with Michigan State University Agriculture activities. We've ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/good-conditions-busy We've gotten a few inches of snow here and there over the past week, and it's finally added up to enough for snowmobiling to start up again. 6-8 inches on the ground now, with more in the forecast every day. It doesn't sound like much, but it ... http://woodland-snowmobiles.com/a-beautiful-saturday-morning