Extended Forecast Looking Great.

old abe

Well-known member
Eek. I’ve been following snowfall and condition reports with a microscope since the snow started falling. Unless you enjoy running up and down trail 3 from Mass City to Houghton you’re going to be greatly disappointed. 13 loop is closed, I heard rockland gets thin with water spots, ontonogan is extremely thin, Bergland is too thin, etc and can’t really go south of trail 3 either. Could maybe run from Mass to the Rousseau bar and maybe venture down the newly reopened trail 109 to Alston from Twin Lakes but that’s about it. Freda loop is still closed, and can’t get across the bridge/canal in houghton.

If you’re looking to put on 150 miles I’d head to the eastern UP. Pretty much everything north of M28, east of Munising and west of M123 has plenty of snow cover. Could put on 100’s of miles if you covered every trail. Haven’t heard of any water issues that way… yet! I’m heading up there Saturday.

Keep in mind there is more snow on the way between now and Friday and could help change a lot of what I mentioned, but there is a slight warm up coming Sunday/Monday as well.
Bravo on trail 109 being reopened! Hopefully the Baraga group will do a good job with their end of it.
 

goofy600

Well-known member
We’ve had a few inches of snow since the warmup and snowing now. We are in the 3-6” area so I’m going to take a little ride just to check my trails (UP Thunder Riders in Watersmeet) towards Marenisco maybe even further west if not bad to see how things are and to see if I can get groomers back out. Will be almost all grade running so will see what how it is and try to post later.
 

600_RMK_144

Active member
We're getting absolutely hammered right now! It's great snow and no end in site right now. We cannot keep up with the plowing. It's absolutely beautiful right now!!! Time to ride fellas!!!
Sounds like our trip out West after Christmas may need to be switched to the UP!!!! Our guide for Togwotee called last night (Skinner Bell). He said it's very thin over there! Everyone thought we had a slow start out West last season (which we did), but he said it's thinner right now than it was at this time last season! :mad:
 

indy_500

Well-known member
Well the extended forecast looks not so great… after today’s brief warm up ends, the next week looks pretty darn good, but after Xmas looks like $#1+. 3-5 days of upper 30s and rain.
 
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