atomic Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi guys, I'm dying to ride tomorrow and have the day off. I'm from Wellesley. We want to launch somewhere closest to us and it seems Mactier area is best. Can you recommend a place to park there? Is there a parking near Cove Marine? Also are those yellow trails decent or destroyed from yesterday's mixed weather? Thanks for any tips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slomo Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Parking is no problem across from The Cove or at least was last year. As for trail conditions, (?) let's send our man Blake G over there to test them out. Last year's report January 20, 2018 - trail conditions yellow (for the trail pictures - what you might expect - actual results may differ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibsonNytro Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 There is lots of parking across the street from The Cove. The trail goes right into the parking lot. Please if possible let us know how the trails are in the area. I might go up on Saturday for a quick shake down ride. TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomic Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Thx! we will try the cove area tomorrow. I will let you know firday night late or sat morning how it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomic Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Second question, sorry to bug you guys. Do you think heading north up past parry sound or making a right toward Kearney direction would be a better ride tomorrow? The Kearney way tends to have alot of traffic and beat up trail I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slomo Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 I'm writing at 2:40 pm so might be late, but can't you take off this evening to Algonquin Motel in South River and wake up to green trails? I did just look up Wellesley ON and you've got a fair ways to go in any case. http://www.algonquinmotel.ca Four lane highway all of the way. 401 probably clogged in GTA though unless you have a 407 transponder or pay extra toll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomic Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Yeah we avoid Toronto area like cancer. The traffic can be brutal. We actually go north/east of Wellesley through Stayner and connect with 400 past Barrie. Its a pleasant drive. We only have one day to ride, can't go night before. We understand we will probably be in the truck for 6 hours for 4-5 hours of riding. But that compared to watching my green lawn right now is worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibsonNytro Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 35 minutes ago, atomic said: Yeah we avoid Toronto area like cancer. The traffic can be brutal. We actually go north/east of Wellesley through Stayner and connect with 400 past Barrie. Its a pleasant drive. We only have one day to ride, can't go night before. We understand we will probably be in the truck for 6 hours for 4-5 hours of riding. But that compared to watching my green lawn right now is worth it. Not trying to crush your plans or anything but I just got a text from my neighbor (our cottage is 15 minutes south of Mactier) and he said the 6" of snow we got on Tuesday night is down to about 2" of snow because of the rain yesterday. He hasn't been out in the bush or anything but that's what I've just been told. Weather network does say more snow tomorrow up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake G Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Kearney and north is very good these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricky Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 I know you are looking for more sleddin and less truckin, but things are better east of hwy 11, say Baysville/Dorset/Dwight area versus the Mactier Area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevester Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, tricky said: I know you are looking for more sleddin and less truckin, but things are better east of hwy 11, say Baysville/Dorset/Dwight area versus the Mactier Area. This. Frozen mogals on the Seguin till bear lake as well. Going to need lots of snow to fill holes. 1 hour ago, Blake G said: Kearney and north is very good these days. Yeah excellent. Went that way again today. Hats off to ADSC and HRSC for getting things well prepared and now in fantastic shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOM Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Going to park in Sundridge tomorrow and head to port loring trails are aleast green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMSOMAIR Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Report back on the Loring trails please , headed that way Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomic Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 Mactier area was great btw. We launched from the cove and trails were groomed and barely any traffic all day. 201/203 great too. No rough spots at all really. It got worse on C near parry sound side and C103D was a bumpy mess before sprucedale. Needs serious grooming with several exposed patches and some small water pools. Police were out about 20 kms before sprucedale. They were actually super nice though, two guys from Parry sound. They were nice if you had all your papers and weren't acting like a monkey on the trails. The way back to cove was getting a little bumpy by end of day, but nothing too serious yet. If Saturday has a a lot of traffic it could get rough, but in my opinion I would still go if that area works best for you getting there. Late in the day Saturday could be a bumpy mess. First pic at cove. Last one at C and 201 area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slomo Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 5 hours ago, atomic said: Mactier area was great btw. We launched from the cove and trails were groomed and barely any traffic all day. 201/203 great too. No rough spots at all really. It got worse on C near parry sound side and C103D was a bumpy mess before sprucedale. Needs serious grooming with several exposed patches and some small water pools. Police were out about 20 kms before sprucedale. They were actually super nice though, two guys from Parry sound. They were nice if you had all your papers and weren't acting like a monkey on the trails. The way back to cove was getting a little bumpy by end of day, but nothing too serious yet. If Saturday has a a lot of traffic it could get rough, but in my opinion I would still go if that area works best for you getting there. Late in the day Saturday could be a bumpy mess. First pic at cove. Last one at C and 201 area. Thanks for the feed back & pics atomic - excellent that your trip paid off. Arrived at my camp last night - Waubamik - and about 1.5 feet of new snow up here. Going to get out this morning once it warms up to -20 or so. Not sure which direction yet - north sounds better at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 8 minutes ago, slomo said: Thanks for the feed back & pics atomic - excellent that your trip paid off. Arrived at my camp last night - Waubamik - and about 1.5 feet of new snow up here. Going to get out this morning once it warms up to -20 or so. Not sure which direction yet - north sounds better at this point. Trails up to ardbeg and over to Whitestone are pretty bumpy as there was lots of traffic on them yesterday. Not many exposed rocks though. I went through at 10pm and at that point it was not groomed. Maybe a bit less traveled up to loring. I think people got off work early yesterday!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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