Mid-December update

The guys are busy replacing the cleats on two of the groomers - they were getting quite worn down.  This should be done by tomorrow or Thursday.  With that done the groomers will be ready to go once the trails are ready to groom.  There still is not enough snow and the frost is not very deep in the ground.  Another reason for not grooming yet is that we have been jynxed by thaws between Christmas and New Year's the last few years.  We'll look to see where the weather is next week to see if we'll work on getting something open early.

The cold weather expected over the next few days should go a long way to freezing the ground so that the groomers won't sink in the swamps.  We're still thinking about renting an Argo for a few days once we have some more snow and some cold weather.  Lake Temiskaming is almost frozen over today and the Wabi River has been frozen for nearly 2 weeks now.

Bill and Marcel had an onsite meeting with the MTO at Brown's pit.  It looks like the reroute is going to be feasible so we should have the trail open in January.  The reroute is very scenic and should be a very nice new trail.

Snow's here

We finally got some snow on Thursday.  Too late to help with early season permit sales but still it should have people thinking about sledding.

I was out in the bush today.  There is about 10 cm of the white stuff.  There is no frost in the ground so it would be nice if it got cold for a while before we got much more snow.

The Wabi also froze Thursday night.  That's certainly a good sign.  It had actually frozen several weeks ago but the disgustingly warm November melted all that nice ice off.

We're still working on the Moose Lake trail reroute.  It looks like we may have to delay opening the new trail until next year because of issues at the MTO pit.