TheMainer

Got to put 20 miles on the ol lady's sled running around the pond ice fishing today while waiting for mine to come in. Lot of the local lakes have 5-8 inches of ice now which this downpour won't touch so at least we'll be fishing next weekend even with bare ground around.

All I want for early Christmas present is a 60 mile shift southeast!

That looks ideal as a bad cutter could get here, 0.5" of rain and temps stay in the 30s and we'll still have a base

6 inches here so far in the middle of Maine, still snowing. Might go out on sleds this weekend to cut some blowdowns since we had 3 inches of icy crust before. Too bad about this weekend, this was a good start

Got a new (to us) groomer to try out this winter, we still have an icy crust left, hoping for around 6-8 inches so I can drag an old bridge into a big water hole to fill it and get out and cut blowdowns on sleds. New sled hopefully will be here before Christmas. Definitely feels and looks as though we may break the trend of the past 3 crappy winters hopefully.

We're saddle bagging from the house to the Northern Door in Ft Kent for a 3 dayer that Friday through Sunday, back through the woods via St John River and Churchill dam, hoping for a whiff for sure cause we'll already be pushing it on fuel Sunday! Could be a really good March for snowmobiling, our trails are in great shape, will be better after we get this storm and Thursday groomed out. Hoping we can ride from the house til March 24th like a normal year since it started so late.

Interesting snow hole over Lac St Jean in Quebec, been riding there a few times and it's always a bit skinny compared to all other directions from there. We ended up with 5 inches, compacting in the warmth (~33.8F), but should give us another good weekend of snowmobiling

Snowing nicely here, hoping for 4 inches to give me something to work with in the groomer tomorrow night. 11-12 is the earliest id ever been done snowmobiling in middle of March after that 80 degree stretch. Only one of two winters in my past 19 years of riding I didn't ride in April at least once.

About 5 inches of sloppy snow here, thinking it's just enough to still get the grooming done, was really hoping for 8 inches. Usually we're in the snowbelt up here and never have these issues...

Around 20 degrees here, radar looks to be filing in but nothing getting to the surface yet. Gotta be up somewhat early for work so I can groom later tomorrow afternoon and all day Friday (assuming this doesn't fall apart). Bout to take a weed gummy so I conk out and don't stay up all night worrying.

Fingers crossed this verifies then the whole region will be snowmobiling and get some money into the businesses

Got about 4 inches here, happy with that as it was about right in the middle of the forecasted amount, hoping for 8 inches Thursday and we'll have our whole trail system open for this weekend

Yeah same happened end of January and beginning of February last year, 2 back to back storms over a foot, hard yanking a drag through almost 30 inches of snow up some of our hills, but our machine climbs really well thankfully, at this point I'd take whatever we can get, haha.

Hoping for a combined foot by the end of next week, ended up grooming yesterday, that 3-4 inches of sleety stuff gave us just enough to work with for our first grooming run of the year, but definitely need quite a bit more.

Monson with 7 inches this morning in town, Dover probably 3 inches, then it started pouring rain but was still pretty cold out. Hoping we dryslot rain soon

Yeah I have been on conference calls most of the afternoon, I'll have to see if CAR shifted anything in their AFD. We're almost there right now, Moosehead lake finally locked up last night too, not terribly later than usual, but this snow, rain and warm isn't gonna help ice. We ended up with about 8 inches at 500 ft elevation in Willimantic, 12 inches in downtown Monson, and 16 to almost 18 inches north of town at 1,100 ft elevation. That storm was definitely sharp cutoff by elevation. Was hoping for a repeat with this storm cause then we would have really been in business!

22 degrees and some nice mood flakes falling north of the 45th. Still have a solid crusty base, hoping for a net gainer out of this at least, we're like 8 inches from grooming, but the 3/4 inches of rain after a sloppy 4 inches isn't gonna get us there.

I honestly have no idea how Windham, Gray, Winterport, etc can justify having a snowmobile club anymore when like you guys said it barley lasts 3 weeks a season. We only groom on average 10 weeks and looks like it is gonna be more like 7 this year north of the 45. Did manage 60 miles prior to the New Years rain to try out the Lynx, 3rd worst start to the season for me since 2009. Hopefully it turns around, might try to get a few more miles tomorrow after our 4-6 inches yesterday, but at least I got my Quebec season pass worst case, but outside of Mt Valin there is hardly any riding up there.

I'm hoping our area can get less than 2 inches of rain and we might keep some pack. 8 inches in the lower elevations of the system, a foot in town, over 16 inches above 1,000 feet. Was tough going Sunday out clearing blow downs.

Lock in the 62.5 inches right over my head, haha

I like living on the border of GYX and CAR so I just click back and forth over the county line to see who is giving us more snow, usually the one that gives us less snow wins though, haha. Hoping for 6 inches + of paste to set a base, then another 6 inches on top of that next week and we'd be grooming by Christmas day for the first time since 2019.

Seems like models are thinking less QPF up this way and down by you gets the better snow load even if it is a bit more sloppy. Aroostook county would be pretty salty with Lewiston getting 10 inches and they get 2, haha.

Exactly where I want it to end up for my neck of the woods!

I was going to go to Mont Valin riding Friday through Sunday but decided to wait this storm out and see since if we can get 8+ inches we can at least get the club sleds out to pack and trim blow downs, tired of looking at green grass while you guys at least got a little snow last night, haha

Looks great living north of the 45th parallel!