Gold Donating Member Doug Posted December 16, 2024 Gold Donating Member Posted December 16, 2024 Some of you are lucky enough to be riding and great for you guys. Going Nth to take care of somethings at the cabin Thursday and trailer up to Mass City Mi Friday for some breakin miles. Then home Saturday morning for our club Christmas party Saturday night. 1 Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 4 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 4 Got a text from a guy that dropped in Sidnaw Michigan trails were light on snow. Started going toward Michigamme but turned around because of lighter snow. When to Baraga snow improved and riding for the most part was OK. Heading over to Mass city now where he heard trails were decent. Also said lots of sleds so trails are really getting hit hard. Quote
racinfarmer Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Rode one of the 19's into town to put gas on it. Fully rebuilt clutch didn't explode, so I got that going for me. Rode the 22 around the lake a bunch. Finally out of break-in mode. Now we don't have any snow on the lake, so no more lake running for me. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 6 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 6 Trails out of Mass City had decent snow could use some grooming after the busy week but still decent riding. Trails most of the way to Houghton were real good until just Sth of town where snow was getting thin. Started good to Copper Harbor with good snow but snow started getting thin with gravel coming through. Turned around about by Egg Harbor. 1 Quote
BillyL❤️Ve Posted January 7 Posted January 7 I ran out of Melstrand and Seney the three weekends before the holidays. Snow was very good. Rained the first weekend I was up there. Had a 1/2 of ice on me when I got back to the truck. I was going to leave out of Bruce crossing Saturday and make the Copper Harbor loop, but after reading your report I think I’ll head east again. . Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 7 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 7 1 minute ago, BillyL❤️Ve said: I ran out of Melstrand and Seney the three weekends before the holidays. Snow was very good. Rained the first weekend I was up there. Had a 1/2 of ice on me when I got back to the truck. I was going to leave out of Bruce crossing Saturday and make the Copper Harbor loop, but after reading your report I think I’ll head east again. . 2 guys in our group rode Munising Sunday and said it was better trails. I'm going there Thursday with my wife. We're going to leave out of Mass tomorrow and go toward Greenland and Rockland direction tomorrow. When we got back to Mass City that direction was groomed recently. When we were getting up towards Copper Harbor which was our destination there was a lot more gravel mixed in the snow. We turned around by the trail cutting off towards Egg Harbor. Should have turned around before then. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 7 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 7 Trails were groomed out of Mass started toward Bergland and they were not groomed yet from the weekend. Turned around and trails were all groomed up to Houghton and froze down nice and flat. Still lighter snow in Houghton going to turn around and head back towards Mass City possible heat toward Bruce Crossing. Grade looked very thin in Bruce Crossing. Could drop there and head Nth. Better choice would be drive 15-20 minutes and drop in Mass City 1 Quote
USA Donating Member Bontz Posted January 7 USA Donating Member Posted January 7 23 hours ago, Doug said: Trails out of Mass City had decent snow could use some grooming after the busy week but still decent riding. Trails most of the way to Houghton were real good until just Sth of town where snow was getting thin. Started good to Copper Harbor with good snow but snow started getting thin with gravel coming through. Turned around about by Egg Harbor. I think we crossed paths Doug. My buddy was on a 9R XCR just like yours, and then I was on my ‘23 VR1 like you had … along with a 650 Dynamix, Assault Boost and two Catalyst. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 7 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 7 6 hours ago, Bontz said: I think we crossed paths Doug. My buddy was on a 9R XCR just like yours, and then I was on my ‘23 VR1 like you had … along with a 650 Dynamix, Assault Boost and two Catalyst. I think we did Heading home 388 miles for a 2 day ride. Heading to Munising with the wife Thursday. 2 Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 8 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 8 15 hours ago, Bontz said: I think we crossed paths Doug. My buddy was on a 9R XCR just like yours, and then I was on my ‘23 VR1 like you had … along with a 650 Dynamix, Assault Boost and two Catalyst. Was that you in Houghton across from the gas station? Quote
USA Donating Member Bontz Posted January 8 USA Donating Member Posted January 8 (edited) 13 hours ago, Doug said: Was that you in Houghton across from the gas station? On Monday? Yes. We rode south on Sunday and north on Monday. Got as far as Mohawk, and decided we better loop back so we stopped in Calumet, Lake Linden and South Range before getting back to Krupp's. It was nice to scratch the itch and get some miles on! Have a good trip tomorrow and through the weekend Edited January 8 by Bontz 1 Quote
USA Donating Member Bontz Posted January 8 USA Donating Member Posted January 8 Our crew (4 of us who traveled together) stayed with an overall group of 29. It might be the largest group of Cats I'll ever see .. mostly because the owner of MotoProz was part of this trip & all the Cats were sold by him. Anyway, we rode with two other guys from home - both of which were on Catalyst sleds. The one guy was on a RXC 858, and the other on last year's 600. The 858 owner and I swapped for a bit and other than the vibration you feel from your feet all the way up to the handlebars, the sled itself rode nice ... good front end. It wasn't broken in yet so I didn't want to be the guy beating on it, but the little bit that I did squeeze the throttle it was what I expected. The G8 looks pretty cool, too. Not enough seat time to really see what it would be like in different conditions since we were mostly on flat/smooth stuff. He did have the exhaust value issue pop up where he had to bend the bracket to get it lined up correctly to stop from popping the APV code. Hoping to get another chance to swap sleds in a couple weeks. 3 Quote
Not greg b Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Eastern up above m28 is good. You can get to paradise if you take the road up. I am at about 1100-1200 miles for the season so far 3 Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 10 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 10 On 1/8/2025 at 11:44 AM, Not greg b said: Eastern up above m28 is good. You can get to paradise if you take the road up. I am at about 1100-1200 miles for the season so far Agree stay Nth of M28. Avoid trail 413 more gravel than snow. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 10 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 10 Left Wetmore this morning trails were decent with some being groomed last night others being groomed this morning. Went to Grand Marais with more snow and good trails other than in town. Looped our way back on trai 443, 88 and 8. Trails that were good in the morning were beat to death by time we got closer to Wetmore with all the traffic. Many larger groups. Sad reality with minimal areas having snow. Quote
USA Donating Member Bontz Posted January 11 USA Donating Member Posted January 11 1 hour ago, Doug said: Left Wetmore this morning trails were decent with some being groomed last night others being groomed this morning. Went to Grand Marais with more snow and good trails other than in town. Looped our way back on trai 443, 88 and 8. Trails that were good in the morning were beat to death by time we got closer to Wetmore with all the traffic. Many larger groups. Sad reality with minimal areas having snow. You at least had some decent riding, so that's good. I've had a bunch of people from town asking me how our trip was earlier this week, and wanting to head up there now too. I have been telling them it's going to be chaos if they go up this weekend .... you've confirmed that. I think we're heading to the cabin next weekend and going to spend a day on the Flowage if they get this snow that's in the forecast the next few days. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 11 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 11 35 minutes ago, Bontz said: You at least had some decent riding, so that's good. I've had a bunch of people from town asking me how our trip was earlier this week, and wanting to head up there now too. I have been telling them it's going to be chaos if they go up this weekend .... you've confirmed that. I think we're heading to the cabin next weekend and going to spend a day on the Flowage if they get this snow that's in the forecast the next few days. Heading back up Monday to Wetmore with some guys and heading home Wednesday. Not ideal but what to you do. At least I broke last years millage of 812 miles with this trip. 1 Quote
Not greg b Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Eup was busy. Most traffic I have seen all season. It’s been pretty quiet until yesterday. Trails were beat by this afternoon. I road just over 100 yesterday day and about a 160 today. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted January 15 Author Gold Donating Member Posted January 15 The Seney and Pine stump areas had the best trails. Wetmore to Grand Marais areas if you hit them early were good but still had high traffic and gets beat up by the afternoon. No knock on the clubs seen them out grooming or they had the trail groomed the night before just so much traffic the trails never had a chance to setup. Stay away from Curtis gets very thin and trails were not groomed. Quote
Gold Donating Member Doug Posted 3 hours ago Author Gold Donating Member Posted 3 hours ago Seney to Grand Marais Wednesday and Seney to Pine Stump Thursday trails were great and seen multiple groomers out. Wednesday night got any where from 4" to 10" closer you got to the lake. Traffic was not bad and not to bad of a line for gas in Grand Marais. Little over 1800 miles for the year that 1000 more than I had total last year. What's with the idiots parking side by side on the trail or at intersections. Dumb................ 2 Quote
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