indy_500
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What a wild 36 hours! Left my house at 5am Saturday morning on what was supposed to be a 4.25 hr drive to our launch point halfway between Seney and Grand Marais. After getting stuck behind multiple snowplows and dealing with crap roads it turned into 5.5 hours. Plan was to head up towards GM and then over to pine stump for lunch. After some miscommunication in my group not all having full sleds, we had to stop in GM for fuel. 4-8” was forecasted, with the hour to hour showing nonstop snow and the radar showed pure snow over the entire EUP. Well, it was 26 degrees when we unloaded and was pure rain… all day…by the time we got to GM for fuel, the non Klim wearers were soaked, so instead of heading to pine stump, we took some loops in the crazy 8s and headed back after 65 miles. The trails held up surprisingly fine in the freezing rain and other than constantly wiping shields and dealing with crunchy gear, it wasn’t the worst. Rain ended around 3-4pm. We Went and checked into our hotel in Wetmore and dried off a little before going for a 25 mile night cruise. The trails leaving wetmore to the grade, and the grade to the bear trap trail, were both GOD AWFUL. The grade was great though. There is a massive water hole just east of the bear trap, we did not test it out but I hear it’s impassable and massive. This morning we trailered to the Kingston plains, and did a 30 miles loop along Lake Superior and back on trail 8. These trails were in fairly good shape, are very fun to ride, and held up without any overnight grooming, as all clubs were on pause with temps in the low 30s. All in all, plenty of snow, no bare spots where we rode, trails held up thru the freezing rain Saturday and held up great today, they just have to get thru tomorrow and it’s back to winter mode up there. Not the best trip I’ve ever taken, but glad we got to get in some throttle therapy!
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