Honestly, the we rode from Iron River to Hurley via Bruce Crossing and the only area that was bad was Bergland to just outside of Ironwood. I guess now that I think of it 150 wasn't stellar either, especially considering the amount of snow they had from trail 2 north. We stepped off the trail at the 13/8 intersection on the top side of Gogebic and it was to the top of my thighs deep on Friday, so should have held up through the warm spell.
The reroute of 2 by Wakefield is a disaster, I really hope they can figure that out for next year. It was rough going in on Friday, it was horrendous going out on Saturday. I can only imagine what another day of warm conditions and heavy traffic would have done. Once you got to the trail 2/8 intersection past Bessemer trail 2 was pretty nice through to Marinesco, while it got rough again around Watersmeet and thin towards Iron River (Saturday 1/30).
South of Hurley in WI was pretty nice in most areas on Friday, but who knows what the weather did to the trails. Trail 6 to Saxon was great, and some other stuff around Island Lake and to the west and north was pretty good. We heard from a number of people to avoid Mercer, all who rode from the south up to Hurley, so we never went that far south. Most of the areas should have held up fine though. Of course only if you wanted to venture into WI... not sure of the trail passes and such if you were from out of state.
