Where did you park in Orillia? Division Road and Carlyon Line? 

I rode Orillia to Waubashene and then continued on to do a loop through Midland and Penatanguishine and back this evening.  Trails were quite good.  Little bumpy between Orillia and Waubashene.  Groomer was out though.  He cut a lot of it out, but was still leaving some bumps behind him.  Trails were flat in the penatanguishine area.  Next to nothing for rocks or stones coming up anywhere in the trails I rode.  Came across 3 wet holes.  Two there was trails around to by-pass and one I had to get one ski wet in.  But more than manageable.  They have a base built in the trails I rode.  I was quite impressed.  It was snowing on the peninsula which helped the road running.  If you're looking to ride I'd consider this area.  Clubs are doing everything they can with what they've been given for snow.

Thanks for the report. I seen this on FB the other day. The Township will not be plowing the parking lot this winter. There was a local sledder with a backhoe who offered to plow it all winter for no charge but, as we all know, this leads to a liability issue so he's been told not to touch it.

We play Grey Bruce in Durham next sunday.  Wondering if I should grab the sleds for the balance of the day

We launched this morning from the Dufferin Drift Busters club house in Shelburne, parking lot filled quickly this morning and was by far the the busiest I’ve ever seen it when we got back, 30-40 trucks and trailers.  Lots of people out enjoying the trails today, thank you to the Dufferin Drift Busters, Klondyke Trail Groomers, and Durham Trailblazers for all the hard work that went into the trails we rode today.  Trails coming out of Shelburne were definitely thinner, a few sections of gravel mixed with snow, nothing too bad and snow increased as we headed north.  Markdale has much more snow, the parking lot in Markdale is not plowed but people are staging from it.  The snow especially closer to the entrance is packed down.  We headed into Durham for fuel and lunch, roads were snow covered so the road running sections were decent, and we saw mixed conditions on the trails into Durham, very good to thin sections.   We did go through a few muddy crossings, nothing deep or very wide but enough to get some mud on the sled.  We stayed north out of Durham and headed back to the B110 as we heard things weren’t as good to the south.  Overall we had a very good day, 170km,  3 years since this group rode together and it was nice to see everyone again.   To everyone looking to get out, the snow is light and will get beat up with the heavy traffic the trails are seeing.  I can see conditions deteriorating as the days go on.  Lots of trailers heading north as I was on my way home.     Some pictures of the good stuff….