Meeting tonight

                    

  P.O. Box 248

             Waitsfield, VT 05673

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Please join us for our monthly meeting.

Event: Club Meeting 

Day:  Tuesday, February 5^th , 2013

Time: 7:00 pm

Place: Mad River Ambulance Building

Trails Update:  Snow is thin or non-existent all around, even in the higher elevations.  What is there is bullet proof.  Waiting on snow.

Donna Kenyon

MRRR President

Trail update 1/28/13

Trail Update

Well at the least things have frozen up since the thaw. The trails are a bit thin in places, but are in relatively good shape. Skip  groomed the log job and the upper side of Camel’s Hump this week. Not much snow to work with.  Riding is ok in the higher evaluation.  You should consider it decent early season riding.

Doug road the fields up to the Huntington turn yesterday. Thin in places, water-bars to take care with, but relatively flat. He thought it would be bare going down town so you will want to avoid that.  Also Northfield has not been out grooming.

Caution: Some of the water-bars had opened up again in the thaw.  It may be frozen, but we need snow to fill them in. There was a large bog hole on the goat path down to the Duxbury Store, you may want to avoid this area till conditions improve.  

Happy Riding

MRRR

grooming report New years day

Happy New Year!!!

Do not forget the New Year’s Day Hotdog Roast: The event starts at 12 in the gravel pit. Bring your own hotdogs and something to share. Condiments will be provided.

Trail Update  

The groomers to date have run approximately 60 hours since the arrival of the beautiful snow last week!! Riders need to remember that even though we have a lot of snow the waterbars are still open. Also keep in mind that it takes time for new snow to settle down into a hard trail no matter how quickly the groomers get out. 

*The Kew Vasseur RD to Duxbury store has been packed once and   

  groomed with the drag twice

*Northfield has been packed once and groomed with the drag once

*Irasville has been packed once and groomed once

*Huntington has been packed once ( Will need to be packed again

 before there is enough traction to pull the drag over)

*Camels hump loop has been packed on the park side once

*Camels hump loop has been packed on the Duxbury side twice

*Pizzalis trail has been packed once

The general grooming plan for New Year’s day is to pack the park side of Camel’s for a second time.  The trail from Kew Vasseur to log job and Pizzale’s will be groomed with the drag

The only section that is not broken open is the goat path by the Duxbury Store.  We do need somebody to break this out this section. There may also be trees down in this section. We believe that the swamp right next to Rt 100 is still not frozen.

We will keep you posted. Let it snow!  Let it snow!  Get out and ride.

Happy Riding

MRRR