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    Where is here? Ski
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    Going to be +13 in Central lower michigan Thursday, and Friday. Guys are getting their boats out. Ski
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    Togwotee Lodge said they received close to 2 feet the last few days. Snotel shows 47" which is usually when it starts getting good. I wont go there, unless there is at least 40". Triple Peak near Pinedale only shows 27" so that is loooow. That is just southeast of Jackson, and is a pretty neat place to explore. When you get to the top, you can see the Grey's range, and darn near to Utah. Ski
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    I just talked to Patrick at the motel in Dub, he said, Hornepayne tried to groom somewhere over the weekend, and lost 2 wheels on the PB groomer due to low snow, rough conditions. Our club has yet to turn a groomer track. Looking grim, even though I know there is a lot of winter left up there. Ski
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    The twins, and Denis have posted pics on FB, around the Hearst, Kap areas. The twins pics show snow (very low depths though) but, Denis' pics from the trail between Hornepayne and Hearst are brutal. Crazy for this time of the year. Ski
  6. Man, usually they are cutting and hauling street side snow banks away, due to no more room to plow snow. Crazy winter. We will be going up Thursday, I have scheduled my PAL class in Wawa for friday, and Saturday. It will make it easier to bring hunting items across, and participate in the local rod and gun clubs. Ski
  7. The big orange ball, is putting the hurt on the snow. Still have 5 or more days of above freezing daytime highs. Ski
  8. The area that was "missing" is now yellow. guessing someone hit the wrong button, earlier in the day. Ski
  9. It's bad gang. Still have 5 more days of zero and or plus temp highs, to go. Weds-Fri calling for the big orange ball in the sky to show up too. Ski
  10. There is snow at Frater but, not off trail deep, fun fluff snow. My Chapleau connection says they dont have much either, and melting right now. Ski
  11. Gonna be a while, especially with the warm up coming. Wawa said they are suspending opening trail operations until weather permits. lakes are slush pits, and they are trying to preserve creek crossings/snow/ice bridges. The area between Dubreuilville and Hornepayne, is very light on snow. and I mean less than a foot. Go to FB look up Wawa Sno Riders, they posted a video, snow, trail report just yesterday. Ski
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    And I got crap thrown at me for posting this stuff, last week. LOL! I probably shouldn't say anything about the plus 10 temps, coming for several days next week then. Ski
  13. Couldnt have said it better PLC. Great post. Ski
  14. While going back and rewatching the video, the sledder doesnt do anything right. No look, no signal, didnt follow basic traffic laws, cut the corner on the wrong side of the road, to enter the new roadway direction. Instead of going to the corner, stopping, crossing corner, stopping, looking and crossing the road on the right side of the road, with the flow of traffic. All on the sledder here, in my opinion. This is exactly why municipalities dont want sleds in town, and on roadways. Not many people follow the basic roadway laws, and safety rules. Ski
  15. Sleds are not allowed on a roadway. They were traveling the shoulder. Turning left auto, different scenario... car should be in lane of travel, with signal on. If a car, bike, sled, lawnmower, skateboard, whatever, was on the shoulder, merged out, no signal and turned left (like in this case), the Transport in the travel lane still has the right of way. But, I hear you on people not slowing down while approaching vehicles turning, right or left. Having a dash cam, would have shown the sled was at fault here. We have cams in all our vehicles. People dont accept responsibility, and lie to prevent themselves from being accountable... A camera negates all that. Ski
  16. Really? Road traffic has right of way. If that was a car, even if they signaled to come out from the shoulder, they have to enter the roadway safely, with enough distance to get in to the traffic lane, and up to speed safely with the flow of traffic, without impeding it, or causing any issues. Being a snowmobile in this situation, it is even more on the snowmobile. The road traffic always has the right of way. Ski
  17. No different than automobiles... You need to be aware of your surroundings. Head checks (all directions), and check again, then keep checking while you cross roads, bridges, trail crossings. Just winging it, could end up badly for everyone. Not turning to look to see what is coming via front, back, crossing, is just plain stupid. Just like running or rolling stop signs, at intersections. That is on you... Use your brain, for more than a hat rack. Ski
  18. Snow pile in the front yard is starting. It is adding up, little by little. We didn't get the big snow event Wawa and Hawk received. I heard 40" in 48 hours. We only received 4-6". That's lake effect for you. Need to go up this week, to shovel decks, walkways, and garage, barn entries. Get out there, while you can. Ski
  19. Good to see you check in, and post here BP. Good info! Ski
  20. https://www.christmaslightsetc.com/p/500-foot-c9-commercial-light-spool-spt2-green-wire-61558.htm And bulb choices https://www.christmaslightsetc.com/p/C9--Cool-White-OptiCore-LED-Replacement-Bulbs-13604.htm#F373V332 We purchased 500 of the commercial C9 large sized opticore bulbs, extra male and female plugs, etc... choose your length, color bulbs, plugs, and go. Looks like there is a sale right now. We went with 1 foot bulb spacing. We have the entire perimeter, peaks, and corner drops covered on a 30x60 barn, costs us about 500 usd. But, we have a lot of extras to do more. This way you are buying everything separately but, getting what you want. They have 50 and 100 foot pre-mades but, unsure if they are the commercial units we have. The cool white is white white. the warm white is more of a yellow color. The wife researched, and found these, then waited for a super sale, (Christmas in July) and then bought them. now at least you have the website, and can search shop, for what works for you. Good Luck! Ski
  21. Yes, for sure, give me a few. She is a travel nurse and works surgery. I will text her, asking name brand, and where she got them. Ski
  22. My wife got tired of leds going out on whole strings, (this is our third time putting completely new lights on the barn), so she bought high end commercial units. You can cut, and splice the lengths, remove and add light sockets, and male and female ends for custom correct length applications. In these units, the led bulbs are replaceable too so, no more whole strings going out for no reason, and no way to fix them. You can choose the color of bulbs you want, or choose the changeable colored bulbs, with a programming module. We tried everything, fuses, replacing bulbs in every socket, etc... Nothing would get the bad strings running again. These have been pretty stellar, they have been up for 7 months, we have had 2 bulbs "go out" I tapped on them, and they came back on. She didnt even opt for the extra bright, and these are off the charts. I swear the Canadian Air Force knows when these come on, and could call the Township stating they detected a launch of some sort. LOL! They actually have a brighter bulb option. LOL! These throw a 30 foot halo around the building now. She waited until they ran a sale, and bought enough to do the barn, and then some. They regularly send her discount codes for 20% off. Ours are red and white only, we did that to pay homage to the Canadian heritage colors. It really looks good in person, many towns people tell us, how much they love what we did down there, to clean up the site, and make the barn, river area look nice. Ski
  23. Coming in from the north, you will have this, guiding you home to Dubreuilville. Ski
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