Vilas County
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SHOOT2KILL
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Reminder...Vilas closes today 3/2/25 @ noon
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hermie
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Has to be the strangest closing time I have seen to close a trail system. At this point might as well close them tomorrow at 6 am. I can't imagine saying the heck with let's go grab lunch on the sleds and then realizing after you ate you can't ride back because trails closed while you ate. Does look like some people were out riding in land o yesterday.
Usually it’s a midnight closure noon was kinda of a strange time. But is what it is.
Used to be able to ride the 3rd week in March every year in the Yoop. My sons spring break while at Ia. State was always the 3rd week in March, and we rode every year.
Surprisely I saw more sleds in Conover than Lando yesterday and the straight grade east of 45 & north of K has had that section closed for approx a week now.
hermie
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My wife works for a oral surgeon and she closes about 4 to 5 weeks every year. My wife only gets 2 weeks of vacation every year, so we kind of try to plan things around when the office is closed which doesn't work the best to ride. They always close the last week of March. We have been able to ride every year including last year thanks to a miracle snow that hit. I will have to say this is not looking good for that to happen this year based on the weather and still no sled. I am not saying it's always excellent trails but we normally find some pretty decent riding and there is normally no one out riding. We may see a few sleds but overall it's like having your own trail system. The 22-23 season The last week of March was incredible. The good thing about the yoop seems like most places stay open and don't close down at least not in March.Used to be able to ride the 3rd week in March every year in the Yoop. My sons spring break while at Ia. State was always the 3rd week in March, and we rode every year.
hermie
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How did the trails look? I did see Eagle river went out and groom and cleared trees that fell.
SHOOT2KILL
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I have ridden across the Huron Mountains and signed the guestbook @ Mt Arvon as late as the 3rd week in March on a few occasions over the years...Each time I was up there they still had 5'+ of snow in the bush...
SHOOT2KILL
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pclark
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I think you are right but that’s pretty normal, another low snow year up here, so sun will take care of any new snow we get pretty quickly.
From a distance they looked all white, but we only got about an inch and it was very wind blown. So under that light snowcover was all the brown ice and dirt spots from the preceding day, although everything did freeze back up, so don't know what there really was to groom. Will find out status of groom (or lack of) in Lando tomorrow night.