TheMainer

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

I'm starting to look down the barrel of a .12 ga, I don't have a good feeling for much of anything the rest of this month, My back is sore from shoveling all the potential snow.

We're still able to ride from the house here but need some snow really badly. Taking the ol lady to Mont Valin school vacation week since she's a teacher and I had to get a Condo on the mountain since riding in and out of Jonquire is bad right now when usually they have 5 feet. So far this isn't worse than 2011-2012 season for me, but if winter ends the same way that one did this season will win the worst ever award...

34 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Looks like i'll be riding in the jackpot zone tomorrow in the Eustis-Jackman area.

We usually do decent in these setups, hoping for 4 inches to give the drags something to work with after this Ice completely locked down our base.

8 hours ago, mreaves said:

@TheMaineryhis is our groomer with the roller. 

Looks like a good setup! Did you guys build that yourselves or have someone make it for you? My next big want is a brush bar for the drag to help trim face slappers as you groom since I haven't met a club that doesn't like theirs

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

Nice, 4 pages of doom and gloom, I'll make sure to take pics this weekend to cheer folks up.

You should have a good weekend up north, took yesterday off to groom another 60% of our system, just one more trail left to do the other guys are packing today with sleds so we can take the groomer. Hopefully ride 200 miles Saturday, full on winter fun!

Closing in on 7 inches from what I can tell measuring in a few spots to average, still ripping out there. Very Happy with this storm so far. 

5 inches total currently of fairly fluffy stuff, still coming down, picked up and inch in the last hour, wood fire is ripping along nicely and enjoying the flakes. Let's see if we can squeeze another inch or two based on the radar, looks completely dry 25 miles south of here but nice steady snow to our southwest it appears 

8 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Looks like the fun is still yet to come here, looks like its going to fall in that stripe that the models advertised last night.

1/2" of snow here, starting to come down more steadily, been lightly falling since Noon. Hoping we still get our 6+ as I've already teed up to take off Thursday to go grooming 

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

3k very similar

 

Got the groomer out today on one trail, real close to being good on the rest, 6 inches and I think we'd be opening the rest of the system

Snowing probably close to inch and hour rates, perfect time to run to Greenville and get her some new snowmobile gear and lunch, hopefully we get another 4 inches and I'll be perfectly happy with this storm. 

25 minutes ago, dryslot said:

12z Euro a tic or two colder for Saturday, This one is looking very similar to the one we just had on the 10th.

That's what I want, If we got an exact repeat Sunday and Monday will be full 10 hours grooming days opening the system, I'm gonna bet lower though with only 4 or 5 inches and get half the trails open hopefully 

Radar says we've been in rain for a bit, was snowing up til about 2 mins ago as it had flipped back the past half hour, nice Wintery morning out there, two towns up the old man said they had about 9 inches when he left at 5am so guess closer to 10 by the time it's all said and done. Good starter storm for sure.

The snow definitely blew and drifted around a bit here last night, I'd say 7.5 inches and is now pinging sleet with freezing rain mixed in. Now to minimize the rain damage coming to the pack.

This is real man snow for sure, about the ideal storm to form a base, if we repeat this Saturday we're in business!

40 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Hopefully there's a nice pack by Feb 3rd, going up to snowmobile for a weekend. Last time I went the pack was thin but enough.

Where do you guys usually go? We had ol trails last year that weekend, it was the coldest day of the year February 4th, -20 and windy and we rode 200 miles, only saw 8 sleds all day and had to cut 10 trees, but trails were glass smooth

11 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Just curious - which mountain?  Big Moose, Coburn, the Spencers, somewhere else?

What we call the mountain is Russell mountain about 6 miles west of Monson, extensive logging road and windmill road network that's interconnected over 1,000 feet of elevation, gets snow early and keeps it late, almost over to Moxie Pond near the Forks. Ton of fun messing around up there early season with multiple loop possibilities, only need a foot to make it fun and rideable without grooming 

36 minutes ago, dryslot said:

It should be an interesting first ride for me, Coming off a 2007 doo and onto a 2020 doo, I have 0 seat time, Don't know how well it was set up by the previous owner, Only has 1,400 miles but hes about the same build as me so it should be close i think.

You'll definitely need to get used to it since REVs corner really well and flat I always thought, but once you do you'll wonder how you ever rode a REV chassis with the big advancements in suspension and ergonomics. I rode my 500ss 14,000 miles, bought a 2014 back when I graduated and kept the REV as a backup, sold it soon after cause I just couldn't ride it anymore. 

12 minutes ago, dryslot said:

More this weekend too, I plan on riding on the 20th.

If we get net 5 inches Wednesday and net 5 Saturday planning to ride Sunday up on the mountain to break in the new sled, 60 miles of logging roads just poking around and cook a hotdog over a fire

GYX WSW saying possible 12+ near us, CAR saying 5-8 then rain, hoping GYX is right, they usually end up a bit more accurate than CAR

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

Mountains and ski areas will do fine, Little more iffy SE of there on the 10th.

We're a bit southeast of the mountains, but hoping it works out here, can't take anymore rain at this point. Nice snow squal going on as I'm driving up to give the boys working on the groomer some parts, only nice thing about a delay to winter is we're getting a bunch of preventative maintenance done.

56 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Look how next week's inside runner augments that huge NAO block via wave breaking and poleward heat flux...that is going to put up one hell of a fight mid month against what will be a very hostile tropics....could be a 2007-2008 like stretch far enough north.

The year I snowmobiled until the last weekend in April?

42 minutes ago, dryslot said:

I'm hearing there's major trail damage and the season for some areas may be closed this year due to no funding, What that will do, Is place more pressure and congestion on the areas that will be open making it more dangerous once we finally get riding conditions, The states winter tourism is going to take a major blow.

The state threw some emergency funds at clubs that already got swept up, but looking at another pool of funding coming supposedly to fix washouts and bridges. We've checked half our system and so far so good, but the two bridges I'm most concerned about I'm looking at tomorrow. Hoping they're still there as one is close to 40 feet long

3 minutes ago, mreaves said:

 

We had to do it over the entire system after this summer's floods.  In my county we had one club that had to rebuild 13 bridges and replace 8 culverts.  I'm afraid to think what may be out there today.

That really sucks for you guys, those VT hills picking up speed and funnelling water is no joke. Here is the brand new bridge in Strong Maine they built gone again.

4 minutes ago, dryslot said:

That's the worst part of all, Some clubs won't have the resources or time to make the necessary repairs in time to salvage the season, Most don't know what it takes to maintain the trail system so its an oh well, And a shrug of the shoulders for many that have no skin in the game.

Oh yeah for sure, further south in Maine or no ITS trails I think we might see quite a bit of trails closed. Around Franklin county they were finally recovering from this spring storm with all the bridges and trails washed away, probably gonna have to do it all again...

3 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Its widespread, Winds were bad in some areas but the worst is the snow melt and amount of rainfall that fell over a large area of the state.

Gonna try to walk/drive all 34 miles of our trails this weekend because if we need to bring in fill or rebuild a bridge we got to do it sooner rather than later if we want to be snowmobiling this winter, what a miserable stupid storm, I wish it was November instead 

Currently almost flooded completely in here in the great brown north, luckily we live on a hill and currently have power, but only one way out of town right now since the river flooded over everywhere else, think we're past peak now though. Highest flood ive ever seen in my 32 years, worst since 1987 

19 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

The snowmobilers in moose fart Maine on the Canadian border will be thrilled, I’m sure.

Hopefully we will be!