I pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which
it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Our trails held up and
by the looks of the forecast, we are good to
go. So I am placing the green flag up along side the yellow one and I will
explain why this is. The rain and warm weather melted allot of snow and placed
more water underneath it. But due to the low traffic on Saturday, our area held
up. We have plenty of snow so I am not worried about running out anytime soon.
The yellow flag is out because word has it, some areas are still not frozen
down. I heard that
Paradise southern trails are not yet frozen,
but they are grooming along side the road so town is accessible. Also, be
careful if you jump off a road and ride in a ditch! Lot's of water! If one wants
to venture off trail, which I encourage every one to start doing, plenty of
riding can be found north of Hulbert. One can ride between Hulbert and Silver
Creek Bar all day on many two tracks. Just remember this. When you leave Hulbert
and are heading up the road toward Paradise, all trails that go off to your
right will bring you back out to the road or M-123. If you hit M-123 you will
know it because it is black top. Cross the black top, run on the power line and
hit the trails that branch off to the right again. When heading north out of
Hulbert one will come to 12 mile corner. We call it that because it is 12 miles
north of Hulbert. Once you hit this point, hit the trails that go off to your
left! This will take you either to the river, bring you back to the road or end
up at Silver Creek Bar. Lot's of riding folks. Don't be trained like a monkey
and stay on the groomed trails. Respect people's private property signs when
they are posted, but much of the land that I mentioned above is your land! So go
out and enjoy it! Stop out in the middle of the woods, have a little fire and
relax! You cannot find more serenity then this! The way snowmobiling should be!
You can now click on the below trail reports and see their conditions!
Yesterday was such a great day. My little honey and I sat at Shirley's Happy
Hour and watched football all day! Met many great people and it will take me a
couple of days to tell you all the stories. But I will tell you this one. While
the Packers was finishing up the ass whooping on the 0-16 Lions, a snowmobiler
approached me. He handed me $100! I told him, "No sir, I don't want this nor do
I need it! Thanks but no thanks!" He said, "Absolutely not, I am giving you this
money for your website and for you not to shut up! Don't keep silent! You are
the voice that I depend on from Ohio! I sat in my motel room on Saturday with my
computer and you are the only one that mentioned that it was raining! You are
the voice and I don't want the voice to stop! The reason I rode to Shirley's
today is because of your update and honesty!"
After the guy left, I got to admit, I teared up a little bit! When does honesty
and volunteering one's time has to be such a uncommon thing anymore? I listened
to many snowmobiler's yesterday that approached me and talked. Absolutely
nothing negative did they have to say about the Closet or myself! All positive
and I wish I would have had many of the conversations on tape because I would
have made you all proud! I will say this, I am not a monkey! I do not support
what is going on in my area! I won't be trained and I will never rip you off or
take short cuts! I am working on getting my sled running and cameras working. I
will be out on the trails soon so I soak up this serenity that is out there and
I will show you what peace is like. I will also show you how a monkey lives and
what he does! Big difference my brothers and sisters! Very big difference! Now
let's rock out to one of my favorite Elvis Presley songs, because I need to get
geeked up before I go and donate some money to the Indians! Peace and God Bless
all of you Biskit fans! I am convinced that I attract the honest hard working
men and woman of this sport and the monkeys can say what they want, but they are
running this sport into the ground! I will keep you hard working American fans,
because you are absolutely the best!
Sunday Dec. 28th 2008 1:08 p.m.
Did not make it to Green Bay for the game. Tried early this morning but
conditions were to bad to drive. Freezing rain, slush and unplowed roads. We are
experiencing high winds and the bridge is closed. Not even open for cars! Looks
like the rain stopped early this morning and turned to snow. We have approx. 1
inch of new wet snow. Trails are still ride able and the rain did not destroy
everything. Cooler temps are needed and fresh snow on the trails. I don't think
they got to tore up because traffic has been real light! I will find out more
today and report for you in the morning or sometime tomorrow. Now, the rest of
the day is all about football so catch ya later!
Sunday Dec. 28th 2008
The U.P. Sportsman's Alliance?
Bring Lansing to it's knee's? Sounds like
something I might get involved in and support! George is their a website that
these boys and girls got going on? Bill from the
Outspoken
Sportsman has already called me more radical then him, so I am ready
to show just how radical I can be!
Still misting and drizzling out! Temps are warm at this time and it's 12:34 a.m.
in the morning. My mother is feeling better and the shot that we had to beg for
and demand has kicked in! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!
Carolyn Kennedy for Senator? Are you on crack?
Click on the below to check on the trail reports. My trail report consists of
this. Two days of rain, mixed with allot of snow equals crappy conditions! Sugar
coat what you want, but it is crap out right now. It's going to change, but I
would not ride in this at this time. I would give it a couple of days and let
the temps go down! Peace and God Bless!
First off I want to apologize to the Army and all other snowmobilers that follow
my trail reports this winter. I am hurting and lacking just like the rest of you
folks! I want to explain for a minute why I am not updating everyday and why I
am not showing pictures. First, my regular job is calling me to be away for a
week at a time. I do not get internet access where I am at, but I am working on
it. The U.P access doesn't work as good as down state, so I have got to pull
some strings and maybe go satellite. I can't update until I return to Hulbert on
my days off. I don't know at this point what I am going to do. I do know this,
these monkeys don't care what you know
or don't know! So sad! I will tell you this and
consider this an order from Biskit! If a grant sponsor/snowmobile club does not
take the time to update you on trail conditions, then they are not worth joining
up for nor supporting!
Now you want to know the trail conditions? We'll I will tell you how I see it
from the road and what has been happening as far as the weather. It has
been misting rain since 9 p.m. last night. 3a.m. to 5 a.m. it was raining pretty
hard. I just left Newberry and one trailer was at the Comfort Inn, ZERO at the
American Quality Inn next to the closed Topper Bar. Hulbert has very little
rentals and word has it that Strongs and Trout Lake are in the same shape. But I
talked with my brother and he reports that Paradise is packed. The temp stayed
at 39 degrees all night last night and it is currently 43 degrees and still
misting out! More then a handful of sleds on the trails at this time will have
them down to mud in no time! I wonder how many grant sponsors are getting paid
out of the trail permit fund to groom last night and tonight!?!? Just wondering!
I wanted to have an update to you all this morning but I just got home. It is
12:47 p.m. I was in the hospital with my mother all morning long trying to get
her some pain relief for her arthritis! She was in so much pain and was in
tears! Walk Inn Clinic said that they couldn't do nothing for her, to go to the
emergency room! We left, the tears started rolling again and I said, "Screw
this, I am not a Monkey! We are going back." The car turned around! So I walk
into the clinic again and demanded that something be done for my mothers pain. I
advised them that last night they treated a scum bag convicted child molester
for his intense back pain, that had no insurance and never will! You will help
my hard working mother out today or we will not leave! And we will do it through
the walk in clinic and not go through the ER which will cost thousands more!
When are us monkeys going to wake up and stand up!?!?!
Sorry for the un-prepared and spontaneous update! I had to vent! The weather, my
situation, my area, my snowmobile club, my legion and my State has me rather
pissed off at this time and I don't see it going away anytime soon!
How dare anyone knock my mother who has raised thousands of dollars for the
local grooming program! If
you knock her then you are the Cancer that needs
to be removed from the program.
The snowmobile club that ignores her has something to hide and I will find out
what it is! You might do a shitty job with your club, but you will not shit on
my mother! If you have the balls to knock Biskit for the thousands of hours and
many thousands of dollars I have brought to the program then you are a complete
idiot! I don't know of many men around this area that could carry my jock strap!
It's time to Man UP People! I have nothing to hide so come with it!
As far as Dinosaurs? They are extinct in some areas but not mine! If I was to
run out of gas in Strongs Michigan, I would
push my sled here!
Tuesday Dec. 23rd 2008
Yesterday some strange things were happing to the website. I would place a
update up and later in the day it would be taken down and another update would
be in it's place. Three very good updates were placed up, but would disappear
and old stuff would be in it's place. I won't be updating until Saturday so if
anything changes to the site, you know it did not come from me. Now for
conditions. Our entire trail system is covered with snow. We have between one to
five inches of base depending where you are at. Lot's of snow in the woods and
not very many sledders taking advantage of the trails. Hopefully after Christmas
it will pick up. In my absence, if you want to click on the below links for
trail reports, you may do so. Also, my brother is giving out trail reports for
the Paradise area on the
message board. So if you have a question, if
there is something that you need to know, please click onto there and someone
will help you out. Take care you all. Have a very Merry Christmas and God Bless!
The very
cold temps
over the
weekend have
frozen all
wet spots at
this time,
some short
pieces are
rough due to
the frozen
water
seepage.
Sault Ste.
Marie to
Brimley,
Trail #8
- Base 1-4
inches
-Trail is
in Good
Condition.
When
crossing the
bridge in
Brimley make
sure you go
with flow of
traffic.
Brimley to
Raco, Trail
#8
Base 1-4
inches
Trail is in
Good
Condition.
Raco to
Naomikong
(where
Paradise
meets us),
Trail #8
Base 3-8
inches
Trail is in
Excellent
Condition
with 3 feet
of snow off
the trail in
the woods
and forest
service
roads.
Sault Ste.
Marie City
Trail,
Trails #497,
#449, parts
of #8 & #49
- Base 0-3
inches -
Trail is in
Fair
Condition
with a
couple of
poor spots
and rough
areas around
the new
Super
Wal-Mart
construction,
site but
rideable.
Watch for
truck
traffic.
City curfew
is from 1
a.m. to 6
a.m.
Remember
most City
streets are
open to
traffic 20
mph, stop at
all
intersections,
and right
hand side of
street no
side walks.
Watch for
closed
streets that
are posted,
mainly
around the
hospital,
university,
and state
trunklines.
Sault Ste.
Marie to
Kinross,
Trail #49
Base 1-3
inches -
Trail is in
Fair
Condition,
with the wet
spots all
frozen but
they are
icy.
The Downtown
Trail is
still closed
but remember
most city
streets are
open to sled
traffic, see
our web page
for more
details.
Monday Dec. 22nd 2008
First off, I want to wish and say that I hope you all have a very Merry
Christmas! Remember the reason for the season and also pray for our boy's and
girls that cannot be with us because they are fighting over seas to protect our
country and freedoms. God bless our troops!
A nice post on a snowmobile message board that I would like to put up to help
out the area and U.P. We have plenty of snow and all of our trails are ride
able. Lot's of ice in the corners so be careful! Talk to you all Saturday.
When Michigans Upper Peninsula has snow, it's a great place to ride. Trails when
groomed, and they have gotten much better over the last few years with that,
it's an awesome run just pick a direction.
In the eastern U.P. it's pretty much lowland, cedar swamp, and mixed hardwoods.
The run from Brimley just east of Sault Ste. Marie is an old railroad grade.
Havent been on it in 12 or so years, but it is like 15 miles or so of straight
flat wide open trial. I havent ridden south toward St. Ignace, but have driven
through the area, and have knowledge of their program for grooming there and
they do excellent work on the trails, mother nature being the biggest
factor...and that goes pretty much across the U.P on the south side until you
get to Crystal Falls area. IF it's a good snowy winter they have good trails,
otherwise, if you like the deep stuff, stay north of M-28 on the north side of
the Peninsula.
So west of Brimley, south to trout lake and on to St. Ignace or west is a few
small ridges and the like but pretty much flat land riding. North to Paradise is
serious deep snow, the famous Whitefish Point where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank
and the lighthouse. The taquamenon falls both upper and lower are always good
stops, and down to Newberry. Very sled friendly town. P.M. "Lawdog" for info on
Newberry. He's top shelf! Works on the Sheriff's dept. there, and patrols on
snowmobile in the winter. Again, conifers, hardwoods, a hill or two here and
there.
West to Munising there are some bluffs along the lakeshore, and a few higher
ridges here and there. Seney and Grand Marais have serious deep snow, and
hardwood/conifers with some lowland swamp areas but all good to go. They just
put in a new bridge and keep things up to snuff. Seney has lodging and the MSA
president lives there, sure he will advise you to great fun, and he also runs
the groomer. South of there is Manistique. Flat country, usually pretty well
groomed, and a good pitstop on M-94 called the Jackpine. Be sure and visit the
Indian in the basement, the girls love him. West of Manistique is The Big Spring
which feeds Indian Lake. It's a really big lake, dicey on smooth or rough as far
as blasting across it. You can hit it on the south side, blast up to the north
and just to the west, beyond the
fishing
shanty's there is another boat ramp/launch which will save some trail time. The
big springs in is just beyond the big springs state park. Worth the stop to
check out the glass bottom raft and look down into the bubling springs that feed
that lake. It's been said to me that the lake cleans out every 1.5 days from the
water flowing from the springs. Sometimes there are 30 inch trout swimming down
in the bottom, and it's crystal clear. NO FISHING.
West of Marquette, to the north is some big hill country, but covered in trees.
Kinda like I remember Vermont and New Hampshire, just not quite as high. The
highest point in Michigan is in those Huron Mountains. To the south toward
Republic and beyond it's somewhat hilly terrain, but also flatland, swamps,
conifers and hardwoods. The trail south out of Republic is a powerline on and
off. Be careful on those hills or you will get airtime you didnt know you had
coming. Hit Felch and go to Solbergs for a good lunch or dinner if you have a
place to stay around there. No lodging close by that I know of. Sagola has a BP
gas station with a little snack bar restaraunt that has pretty good pasties. A
pub next door. Iron Mountain area can be dicey for snow, so check before you set
out for snow conditions there. West to Crystal Falls and north you get into
rolling country, lots of federal forestland. Most of the trails are on federal
forest roads. North up through Sidnaw and beyond to the Sturgeon River Gorge is
just plain gorgeous. Silver Mountain is quite a view from the top, but to get
there it's not groomed, just go past the entrance to the parking area 1/4 mile
or so and a trail through the woods will take you up the back side IF it has not
been gated off...that's actually private property but nobody there in the
winter, and nobody seems to mind, just respect it. (this may have changed, it's
been 10 years since I was up there). North into the Keewanaw Peninsula past
Houghton and Hancock, it's still rolling terrain, but the hills are much bigger,
once you hit the Keewanaw the world changes. Major snow, lots of historic sites,
the Gay bar, and on up to Copper Harbor. I have stopped in numerous places there
to eat and stay and it's all good. The Gay bar is in the town of Gay by the way.
Straight the last time I was there.
West of the Keewanaw is the Porcupine Mountains. Never seen the trail up the
mountain smooth ever, but they tell me they groom it. Just the same, it's worth
the trip to the top. Lake of the clouds is a worthwhile visit, and awesome views
of Lake Superior as well. South of there Bruce Crossing has lodging, good
restaraunt and fuel, Watersmeet, like Baraga, Marquette, Brimley, Manistique,
St. Ignace, and Harris, (west of Escanaba) all have Casino's, some have
snowmobile packages, but you would have to call them to get the details.
West of Bruce Crossing is Lake Gogebic. Once that lake is safely frozen over
it's like 18+ miles of wide open go for it riding. Check with locals, there is a
few soft ice spots on it, dont know where they are, but I think it's due to
river feeds. Cannot tell you much about west of there.
Recap, east to central UP is pretty much flat, then the north side of the
peninsula gets hilly and a few what we call mountains. South side gradually
reduces to flat on the west end the further south you go. Again, check for snow
conditions on the west end, they have not had the snow they usually have the
last couple years.
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