New Trail 109?
- Thread starter whitedust
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Me tooI just hope its not a bunch of road running whitedust?It's absolutely gorgeous forested area for sure! Plus, hopefully, Baraga Tourism will fulfill there ends grooming duties.
I'm liking the looks of that route, big time! Especially that Superior Snowmoble Club is now grooming all the way to Alston! Bravo! That is where the problem has been for many years as Baraga would stop grooming at Alston, instead of continuing to the Power Lines split turn around as they were supposed to do. That is where the two clubs were supposed to split the grooming duties.
109 Dead end at Alston doesn’t allow connection to Sidnaw?
indy_500
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Correct. Here’s the Polaris trail map app. Currently a large portion of the new 109 is plowed for logging as well, plenty of snow to ride it but it’s not great per the reports I’ve seen on Facebook.
I was told years ago that Baraga did not want to give up the funds collected by them from Alston to the power lines split, turnaround. Seems strange, cheating, stealing that Baraga Tourism, could even collect trail grooming funds on that section, Alston to the split, and then not groom it on a schedule, or when needed. I'm well aware that the trail conditions on that section, at times, being wet, it was not able to be groomed. However that being the case, they way over used, and abused that excuse many, many times over than what the true trail conditions actually were. Scandalous behavior. , and that rubs me wrong.
Yes it dead ends at Alston, the Superior Snowmobile Club worked extremely hard to get that section reopened. DO NOT ditch bang to S. Laird road ! The Law Dogs are watching for this, if they see this they will shut 109 down again.
Baraga Club is very short on Volunteers and has been for some time I understand. Why don't a bunch of you join that club and offer up some help, i'm sure they would take it
FYI , shot down to Sidnaw yesterday via trail 174, Superb I tell ya ! Great job to the folks who groomed that up.
Baraga Club is very short on Volunteers and has been for some time I understand. Why don't a bunch of you join that club and offer up some help, i'm sure they would take it
FYI , shot down to Sidnaw yesterday via trail 174, Superb I tell ya ! Great job to the folks who groomed that up.
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indy_500
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Am I missing something, is it illegal to ditch bang in MI? Fully legal in WI en route to a trail as long as you stay certain amount of feet from the road.Yes it dead ends at Alston, the Superior Snowmobile Club worked extremely hard to get that section reopened. DO NOT ditch bang to S. Laird road ! The Law Dogs are watching for this, if they see this they will shut 109 down again.
Baraga Club is very short on Volunteers and has been for some time I understand. Why don't a bunch of you join that club and offer up some help, i'm sure they would take it
FYI , shot down to Sidnaw yesterday via trail 174, Superb I tell ya ! Great job to the folks who groomed that up.
Has 'Baraga bothered', says it all goofy. As they have told me before, it's a long ways out there.Question is has Baraga bothered to see if they can get there end open. I can tell you I’ve ditch banged over to south Laird rd many times years ago. It’s about a mile.
Perhaps too far out there for them? Huh, yeah well, that's exactly what I was told after contacting, and complaining to the Chamber of Commerce. That's after us being tired of being lied to by the Tourism council. And no, I don't have any respect these kind of people. Okay, I'm done ranting.
mezz
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Snowmobiles are not permitted along State trunk lines. Snowmobiles are permitted along County roads here in Houghton & Keweenaw counties.
indy_500
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no kidding… and we’re talking 300 yards from the trail to laird rd along m38 in the absolute middle of nowhere
mezz
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The DNR would be the one that would raise a stink about it if caught. There is not enough patrol power out there to enforce it, nonetheless, not legal along State Highways.