This is what the snowmobile trail conditions looked like yesterday. Susan had a visitor over and I took the opportunity to get out on a short ride. We had a thaw this past week. Temps in the 40's cost us about 1/2 our snow cover.
I didn't expect very good trail conditions, but I took the Pugsley out to see for myself. It's not like there's a Snowbike Trail Conditions Hotline I can call to find out what the current conditions are like. I ended up going about a 1/4 mile before turning around. The trail was no longer snow. It was solid ice. Temps were in the teens yesterday, so I expected to find ice and maybe snow. But there was no snow, only rutted ice. If I had continued on there would have been a very high probability of going down. With Susan 's current condition with her aplastic anemia, I didn't need to end up with an injury. I did the smart thing and did a short Pugsley road ride.
We would need a good snow storm to make conditions favorable for snowbiking again. It just so happens there is a huge snowstorm passing just to the south of us today. We're only expected to get 1-3 inches out of it. To the south of us they're getting 10-20 inches.
The wind is crazy right now off the big lake. It's gusting to 50 mph right now. Any snow that falls is just going to blow around.
Update @ 21:10: Winds are now gusting to 60 mph.....since I'm writing this, that means we still have power.
This is what the snowmobile trail conditions looked like yesterday. Susan had a visitor over and I took the opportunity to get out on a short ride. We had a thaw this past week. Temps in the 40's cost us about 1/2 our snow cover.
I didn't expect very good trail conditions, but I took the Pugsley out to see for myself. It's not like there's a Snowbike Trail Conditions Hotline I can call to find out what the current conditions are like. I ended up going about a 1/4 mile before turning around. The trail was no longer snow. It was solid ice. Temps were in the teens yesterday, so I expected to find ice and maybe snow. But there was no snow, only rutted ice. If I had continued on there would have been a very high probability of going down. With Susan 's current condition with her aplastic anemia, I didn't need to end up with an injury. I did the smart thing and did a short Pugsley road ride.
We would need a good snow storm to make conditions favorable for snowbiking again. It just so happens there is a huge snowstorm passing just to the south of us today. We're only expected to get 1-3 inches out of it. To the south of us they're getting 10-20 inches.
The wind is crazy right now off the big lake. It's gusting to 50 mph right now. Any snow that falls is just going to blow around.
Update @ 21:10: Winds are now gusting to 60 mph.....since I'm writing this, that means we still have power.
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