Worst Winter Ever

Our snow only has to survive a few more hours before the temps will be back to freezing and the flurries start. Most of our local trails are still open and not taking much of a hit.
Yesterday the rain held off for the most part and it stayed around freezing. Today it's 3c and light rain. My front concrete walkway still had snow on it until a few minutes ago when I took the scraper to it.
Heading out now to check the trail heads and side roads.
 

Ok, so the side roads didnt fair so well. Trail heads/crossings look great. Not bad considering all the salt that gets to them.
Currently 4pm temp is 1c and my van is getting snow covered.
Dont call it quits yet SRX700. We'll see what this week has in store for snow.

According to ofsc guide, I can ride across to Barrie, down to Orangeville, across to Kincardine and back up the Lake Huron shore to Owen Sound on open trails.
Have to book a motel and a masseuse for that ride. ;)!
 
A lot of trail went limited and even fully open green and still show that way late this afternoon. I am watching this and see the effect tomorrow since its freezing and the loss will stop. Yes, rain, ice pellets now coming today with temperature hitting 6-7C with overcast skies. No doubt it knocked some snow and build a slushy mix which is going to freeze. I am hoping to get on on the family day weekends since the 3 day permit is free this coming weekend. Just maybe I will actually leave my driveway. LOL
 
Hopefully the temp drop and new snow will hold the trail status where it is, over night.
I walked a trail about 1/8 mile off the road crossing and it was actually really firm.
Sleds are on the trail and not tearing it up to bad.
There may be hope. ;)!
 
Only a couple inches here.
Trail status stayed the same from 4pm yesterday until this morning though.
Not sure that means they wont change by noon today. All depends on the volunteers that scout them.

I managed to get stuck in a gully waiting for dear to cross in town last night.
Half way up a winding steep incline, about 25 deer charged out of the bush in front of me. Roads were extremely greasy and I had to stop 3/4 of the way up and hang up 3 more vehicles behind me.
One dear slid into the guard rail standing on his hind legs, turned an ran into the front fender of my van. Damn thing just stood there looking at me as if to say, WTF dude.
Once they were gone we all had to wait for the salt truck to get out.
Kinda cool. I havent seen that many deer at once in a long time.
 
District 9 is mostly red again. Will see if it changes during the day, but as predicted, not looking promising.
 
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District 9 is mostly red again. Will see if it changes during the day, but as predicted, not looking promising.
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From Owen Sound you can still do decent day runs east or west, or do a 2 day loop.
I'll let you know how the trails are today. ;)!
 
I don't know if the updates haven't come in or not but a new Green rated trail which appeared before the rain from Bancroft south to Belleville (stops short, don't know whats there yet) is still showing Green the day after the thaw and rain of yesterdays +6C temps. I am off that way tomorrow and going to try and find it for the Weekend ride. So far if I am to believe the status colours there is passible trails still. Hmmm

I am hoping for some fresh snow though since this will likely be hard crusty base left now. But thats better than rocks and dirt.
 
Ohhhhh yaaaaaa.
There's just nothing more fun than bushwhackin. Tuck the feet, climb up on the bars and pull the trigger. Open fields and lakes are like watching paint dry to me.
Caught up to a groomer right away that was headed in the same direction as we were, so it was ungroomed trails for the next 5 hours. Had a blast in everything from drifts, groomed to packed. Snow is definitely heavy. Hard on belts and fuel.
Started heading south towards Hanover/Durham area but switched up in favor of the tight bush trails to the north. Tight means if you meet other sleds, someone has to give way and pull off the trail abit. ;)!
No major damage this ride other than ski's getting mangled by tree's, fence posts and such.
If you bounce of them just right, they help keep you on the trail. lol
It's a fine line, not recommended.
All in all, a great ride. Now I just have to give the sled a go over to see if all my recent work held together. lol
 
well I think everybody is out sleddin, or should be anyways!! lol got a lot more snow last night, trails are open and couldn't ask for more! and its still snowin ;)!
 
District 9 is mostly still limited with very little green and some closed trails still. No major snowfall forecasted for the next 14 days. Looks like it was a bust this year for the area (most trails per square km in all of Ontario).
 
were supposed to get 10-15cm Tuesday, and the same on Thursday too! we weren't supposed to get 3-4" last night (they were callin for 2-4cm) but we did. The weather is kinda like a woman....they can never make up their mind! most of the "green trails I was on this past w/end were absolutely horrible....extremely rough. green trails are most likely torn to shit because everybody flocks to them. there is plenty of snow in my area and I wouldn't be surprised if the "yellow" trails are better than some of the "green"....we were hittin rocks and gravel on the green trails by the way. and this was up in midland and muskoka area
 
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district 3 shut down before we could get out. Districk 2 has an open trail north of Belleville but even green when I drove by it on Wed morning it was a heavy wet crusty snow base. We had rain and mile temp over the last few days. Some of that is definitely gone but no snow yet. Yeah saw that prediction for Tuesday but will it save the trails and/or open some. the Family Day weekend is not shaping up very well. It will be very cold so the snow will be like a block of ice since its heavy saturated with water. Nothing for lubrication without some fresh stuff.

You guys are much further north and closer to Georgian Bay. Winds are high today.
 
There's only no lube until a few studded sleds with aggressive riders tear them up. ;)!
I seen sleds all the way to Orangeville today. District 9 is all yellow and green today, other than a couple spots that dont really matter. Water/mud holes have held a freeze for the most part. A couple ponds/swamps and a couple streams are still wide open and will be the remainder of the winter. The trails they are on are open though.
I will say, my Polaris felt a whole lot better on water than the SRX. There'll be no beach to beach water skipping on it I dont think. Feels tail heavy in the water.
It snowed all day here but didnt amount to much, maybe a couple inches. Snow is just getting nice again. Yesterday was a mix of snow and rain all day which made for heavy snow on the trails.
Harder the better for me. As long as the ski's touch snow for a second in every corner, it's good riding. The heavy stuff isnt trustworthy for my riding style. It moves out of the way to easily in hard cornering. Push is noooo good. lol
 
Trails are still good in ottawa

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Well, interesting ride to say the least. Too much air and not enough landing strip.
Landing in the bottom of a ravine with a crick was rough. Almost vertical climb on the other side meant a nasty impact was inevitable, but I managed to slide the srx sideways enough to not hit full on. The srx found it's way down downstream while I was ejected into the hillside tree's. My choice to bail out rather than take the impact. The bumper and ski's tore into the embankment taking a gouge out and leaving chunks of dirt and clay all over sled.
She was sittin cock-eyed on some rocks and still running when I got to her. Yanked and pulled to get er pointing up stream and rode er out.
Rev and Nytro didnt fair so well. Rev being much lighter and driver also much lighter managed to plow through the invert where the Nytro just kind of blew apart. Rev was twisted up and tore a suspension bolt right through the chassis along with a spring dislodged and turned sideways and a idler missing we never did find. The Nytro's many cowling pieces just blew off and nothing is salvageable. Still one headlight hanging around though. Suspension faired pretty well and even rode good coming home.
A couple ratchet straps, rope and some redneck pry bars scavenged from the woods, all sleds rode out of there and home.
Of course I tended to my buddies before retrieving my sled. One broken thumb and some bumps and bruises is all.
SRX is seemingly unscathed. Even gave her a bath in the stream. I was wet already, why not. ;)!
After some pounding, pushing and pulling along with a little fabbing and welding, were ready to hit the trails again today. Nytro looks naked, but parts will be ordered. That thing has been rolled, sunk in the swamp, caught on fire and now this. Tough year so far for the Nytro, but so far, tough sled. ;)!
 
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you guys must have a Death Wish or something..So the newer sleds didn't fair so well.little wander there.The older sleds were built stronger and take a real beating..We have a friggin Blizzard here again but I had a great weekend of riding.Going to have to get the snowblower ready for like 4 hours of blowing.... :o| hey we did get a good snowfall this Winter..cannot complain at all.Lots of riding left yet here. :sled1: :sled1: :sled1: :sled1: :sled1: :sled1: :sled1:
 
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