Eagle River Conditions

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Cirrus_Driver

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So I take off Monday in January and February weeks figuring I'd get better riding on Sunday's as opposed to Saturday.
I get it that you can't groom with the traffic on Fri/Sat. I head out yesterday A.M. (SUNDAY) and 70W was fine, and 7N was OK UP TO the point where it intersected with 10E. I rode 12 miles of 1 1/2 foot to 2 foot moguls on 10E all the way to the 13N cutoff to Conover one-ways. So what happened with the groomer driver on Satuday evening that he couldn't groom 10E? I guess he forgot about 10E or that section's too much work? Usually avoid 10E/W but wanted to ride Conover and that's a more direct route than going around 7N to 8E, 13S, ect. Conover trails were excellent, (13's) and so were St. Germain's - 7S was alright past the 70E cutoff and Sayner was OK too, from the point where 7N crosses G and leaves ER. Not sure what the deal is this last couple years but ER sure falling down. Yeah I know, get out and help - BS, I paid my $30 shakedown, not to mention all the money I spend at local businesses up there. Step it up and take care of your system the way the surrounding areas do.
 
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blkhwkbob

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I was pretty much thinking the same thing. 10e was ridiculous. The only groomer I saw in the area was running through the business trails along 45 in front of Trac-Side on Sunday night. I'm sure the conditions are brutal on the grooming equipment, but somehow the Bo-Boens seemed to at least try to clean things up, and that was ground zero for the radar run and most of the traffic. Eagle River was not good.
 
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Cirrus_Driver

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Honestly, I don't remember the last time I saw a groomer on the ER trails DURING the DAY. I presume they don't groom during the day. I have seen them when sitting in Riverstone in the 7-8 PM hour, heading north on 3. I usually don't ride at night so if they don't groom during the day I'd never see them. Maybe they are avoiding 10 to the West of 3 because of the river area at the bridge just west of 3, but they could just head north on 13 from the 7N side, and turn around on Deep Lake Rd. Seems to me they are avoiding, but we were told the bridge area on 10 is all frozen now, so what's the problem?
 
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Cirrus_Driver

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groomerdriver said:
Instead of doing what you do best, why don't you call this guy and ask HIM what's going on. Tom is the groomer boss for the ER area trails.

TOM TOMLANOVICH
715-617-0917
trailbosstom@baysidelodgingrentals.com
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So based on your comments on the CAP/STEP thread, nobody should EVER complain about what clubs do, because the system works fine as it is? All they needed was more of OUR money it seems, and we are supposed to just give it up willingly? Don't take that offensively, because I WILL call or email and find out what they are doing, even though for the limited amount of time I get to ride, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO be the one to keep these people honest. Surely there have to be others that take note of what's happening. I purposely waited until mid February to go on my FIRST extended ride, giving them every benefit of the doubt to get trails in good groomed condition, and still I see failure. This was my 1st ride over 50 miles, a total of 3 times riding all season.

I think it's somewhat TELLING there's absolutely no rebuttal and total "crickets" in defense of there efforts to groom an approx. 15 mile East/West section (Trail 10), a major connector, in Vilas Cty.
 
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cmscat50

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I wish people would understand that the $30 is not a shakedown and that is not meant to instantly change the state of the grooming funds / etc. The trail pass program is meant to be a long term solution to the funding. As you know the money goes to a SEGREGATED snowmobile fund. The results of this are supposed to come to fruition in a few years. At that time the goal is to be able to fund new trails, be able to tackle projects that have been outstanding for years (bridge repairs / etc), and also increase funding for grooming.

And also....never....ever....ever....assume riding Sunday will be better as that's almost never the case anywhere. Grooming operations generally happen early in the week and late in the week.
 
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groomerdriver

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XXX007 said:
So based on your comments on the CAP/STEP thread, nobody should EVER complain about what clubs do, because the system works fine as it is? All they needed was more of OUR money it seems, and we are supposed to just give it up willingly? Don't take that offensively, because I WILL call or email and find out what they are doing, even though for the limited amount of time I get to ride, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO be the one to keep these people honest. Surely there have to be others that take note of what's happening. I purposely waited until mid February to go on my FIRST extended ride, giving them every benefit of the doubt to get trails in good groomed condition, and still I see failure. This was my 1st ride over 50 miles, a total of 3 times riding all season.

I think it's somewhat TELLING there's absolutely no rebuttal and total "crickets" in defense of there efforts to groom an approx. 15 mile East/West section (Trail 10), a major connector, in Vilas Cty.
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Did you call him? MAYBE...and I say MAYBE....it's because that very few clubs are taking any chances this year on any trail that goes across a swamp.

Call him....and don't tangent off on a thread that you started.
 
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groomerdriver

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cmscat50 said:
I wish people would understand that the $30 is not a shakedown and that is not meant to instantly change the state of the grooming funds / etc. The trail pass program is meant to be a long term solution to the funding. As you know the money goes to a SEGREGATED snowmobile fund. The results of this are supposed to come to fruition in a few years. At that time the goal is to be able to fund new trails, be able to tackle projects that have been outstanding for years (bridge repairs / etc), and also increase funding for grooming.

And also....never....ever....ever....assume riding Sunday will be better as that's almost never the case anywhere. Grooming operations generally happen early in the week and late in the week.
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He's just anti CAP/STEP and has been since post #1.
 
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