We did get around half inch of heavy wet snow last night. It started snowing this morning but that has changed to drizzle. I headed out for a ride hitting some Sayner, Eagle River, Lake Tomahawk and St. Germain trails. The Sayner and St. Germain trails I rode had been groomed. Lake Tomahawk had groomed some their trails but not others. The Eagle River trails I rode hadn’t been groomed. The groomed ones were smooth overall but still had some bumps the groomer didn’t flatten out completely. The ungroomed ones were pretty smooth overall and looked like they had been groomed the day before but did have some small bumps. I’m going with an overall good rating. Found some that were white, smooth and really nice. Others had corners that are getting pushed out and thin on snow or icy. The carbides were scraping on some corners. Some trails are brown from snirt while others are mostly to all white. Most plowed road trails have a decent base but some are starting to have areas where the carbides will scrape and there are a few bare spots.
Lakes are slushy if you get off the trail. There are areas of nasty ruts from where sleds went through the slush and the tracks froze. More lakes are getting marked but there’s still quite a few that aren’t. We don’t advise riding a lake unless it’s marked or you know it’s safe.
Note: In some pics trails will look whiter than they are due to the new snow.
