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Yesterday, late afternoon, early evening, I was out on the deck prepping the grill for a bbq. I heard what sounded like thunder in the distance. I went out towards the lake side of the deck and heard what sounded like an underwater explosion. Scared the hell out of me as after the eruption, I...

Attended the Presque Isle/Winchester SnoBunnies trailside party/fundraiser yesterday at Lynx Lake Lodge.......by means of my truck. Talking with some of the club members, our president brought out a sheet of trail openings since 1987. Latest opening/start of grooming was 2002-2003 season where...

The good is that we are making ice in northern Wisconsin. After last weeks warm up, everything is frozen again including swamp areas that trails cross in Presque Isle and Manitowish Waters. Lake ice looks to be safe for people as several were out on my lake the last few days. Next ten days shows...

Anyone else seeing about a dozen new posts that looks like Asian script? I did not open any.

So on my list of things to do, I had some maintenance to do on my truck. I called the auto parts store and ordered a case of trans fluid. I could not believe it when the delivery guy showed up at my house with a case of Bud Light.

Didn't think I would be doing this again in mid-April. 15 inches in Presque Isle at 10 am and still coming down. Rain turned to snow last night around 9 pm. Drove up on Saturday from Chicago in shorts and a t-shirt because it was in mid 70s. Planned on summer prepping the snowmobiles but now I'm...

Johns forecast today shows some impressive snow hitting the Northwoods on Thursday/Friday and weather app on my phone shows Vilas County getting 10+ inches. Anybody left up there or those of you that live there full-time planning on one last ride? If I was there, I would be. Hope to read about...

I am looking for any information or ideas on what everyone out there does for insurance on your sleds. Now that the season is over for me, it aggravates me to pay for liability insurance for 7 snowmobiles that will sit in the garage and not move for 9 months. Is there a carrier out there that...

We lost one of our Presque Isle/Winchester Sno-Bunnies family on Wednesday night on the border of Presque Isle/Marenisco. A 60-year-old lone female rider was killed when her sled left the trail, hit a snowbank and then several trees. MSP, Gogebic County Sheriff, and MI. DNR investigating. I had...

After 20 years, I have decided to update one of my reserve/guest snowmobiles. It is a 2003 SkiDoo MXZ Sport 600. It has the 1+1 seat that has served us well while the kids were growing up and when guests came to our cabin. I will be placing a spring order for a SkiDoo Grand Touring soon. The...

80 mile loop today from Presque Isle to Winchester, Mercer, Manitowish Waters and back. Presque Isle/Winchester trails were groomed and very nice. Plenty of light powder and still plowing through untouched trails. The short distance we rode Mercer trails were very nice and appeared to have been...

We got a late start yesterday for a ride due to an uninvited guest in the cabin. Seems that a red squirrel got in either when my wife let the dog out, (100 times) or when I brought in a load of firewood, (once). Guess who got the blame? Took off from PI on 6W and was pleased at how nice the new...

I just came from a Presque Isle/Winchester SnoBunnies fundraiser event at the PI Pub and while there, one of the board members came to me and showed me her phone news feed showed that Vilas County trails were closed. Being that she is a board member, and would have been in the know, I told her...

Ventured out of the cabin yesterday (car) and hit a local watering hole. Presque Isle had light snow on/off all day that amounted to nothing. Trails looked snow covered and icy. 3 riders in the Retreat Bar that said they had rode down from Hurley. They said the trails were rough. Winchester...

I received a call this morning from a friend up on Gogebic that a "real genius" thought it would be fun to chase a group of deer with his snowmobile on Gogebic yesterday right in front of a full house of patrons at Gogebic Lodge. I give the crowd credit for not taking matters into their own...

Sad news out of Gogebic County for the last week. 2 fatalities. First one was a male on the Ramsay re-route around the ski hill property. Only details I know is that he fell off of his sled and was run over by his companion who then crashed and broke his leg. Second was last night in Marenisco...

My wife was checking WUPN and Facebook this morning and saw something about another Oneida fatality over the weekend. I did not see the story and was surprised when I signed on to this forum today that there is no talk of this yet. 40 something year old male overtaking another sled on the trail...

Took a short ride yesterday to MW from PI to get lunch and found Shillelagh to be closed so I thought I would start this thread for local information. Please add to it with any info you may have. Ran into some riders from Boulder Jct. who said not a single place open to get lunch or a beer there...

We have been out on the trails every day for almost two weeks except for last Friday and I found it somewhat interesting that I see more sleds parked at the bars and restaurants then I see on the trails. Last Thursday we did a loop from Presque Isle to Boulder Jct. to Manitowish Waters to...

I have to give credit where credit is due since I ripped on MW trail 6 about a week ago and someone's panties got bunched up. Rode Presque Isle, Manitowish Waters, Mercer trails the past two days. Absolutely incredible on Thursday. Left PI on trail 6W. Jumped on 14 and took that to 19 in Iron...