Last year we had a hard time traveling from there over to the other parts of the Hill.
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In checking on AbsoultSnowmobile.com he is reporting that the Brantingham’s Club Trails are not being gromed. Any input from others???
Last year we had a hard time traveling from there over to the other parts of the Hill.
Last year we had a hard time traveling from there over to the other parts of the Hill.
QUOTE(1 OLD SLEDER @ Dec 14 2007, 03:03 PM) 
In checking on AbsoultSnowmobile.com he is reporting that the Brantingham’s Club Trails are not being gromed. Any input from others???
Last year we had a hard time traveling from there over to the other parts of the Hill.
Last year we had a hard time traveling from there over to the other parts of the Hill.
I would imagine there is not enough snow in the valley to groom yet. All the snow that the higher elevations have been getting does not matter down in the Black River Valley.
We never try to go to or from Brantingham until mid January at the earliest and then ONLY on overcast or snowy days due to all the "trails" that are actually plowed roads that melt to mud whenever the sun peeks through.
Don't they get paid the same per mile from the Trail Fund for those roads that they call "trails" as their real trails? That doesn't seem to be fair. I know my brand new carbides were screamin' hot when I road about 8 miles of bare "trails" last March. Their trail to Trail #1 was very nice though.
Brantingham is grooming, rode down from my place in Brantingham to route 12 to go over to the hill Saturday morning on freshly groomed trail. The snow is there now so they will be keeping up with their trails as always.
QUOTE(snowman1 @ Dec 14 2007, 11:45 PM)
Don't they get paid the same per mile from the Trail Fund for those roads that they call "trails" as their real trails? That doesn't seem to be fair. I know my brand new carbides were screamin' hot when I road about 8 miles of bare "trails" last March. Their trail to Trail #1 was very nice though.
State law is 3 inches of snow or you don't ride. Pretty silly to ride 8 miles of bare ground.
QUOTE(spikegary @ Dec 16 2007, 07:20 PM)
State law is 3 inches of snow or you don't ride. Pretty silly to ride 8 miles of bare ground.
I'm pretty sure he was referring to the roads that act as trails, not the actual trails.
I've been known to do a lot of "silly" things when it comes to snowmobiling, Gary.
Yeah, smikin' is correct, it was the 8 miles of bare "Roads" that they are getting paid for as Corridor A trails that I was referring to. I was referring to the comment that Phantom Rider made about the same subject of roads that they consider trails.
That seems silly to me that Parks would allow this and NYSSA doesn't try to stop things like this from continuing. These particular 8 miles of roads are not their only miles that are actual vehicle roads that are open to cars & trucks all winter either. I tried to stay away from the others due to the high sun and the warmer temps that time of year because I knew about them. By looking on their local map, it seemed as though the trails I took weren't roads, but then I was proven wrong and by then it was too late to turn back. Can't they put these particular roads/trails out into the fields or something?
Yeah, smikin' is correct, it was the 8 miles of bare "Roads" that they are getting paid for as Corridor A trails that I was referring to. I was referring to the comment that Phantom Rider made about the same subject of roads that they consider trails.
That seems silly to me that Parks would allow this and NYSSA doesn't try to stop things like this from continuing. These particular 8 miles of roads are not their only miles that are actual vehicle roads that are open to cars & trucks all winter either. I tried to stay away from the others due to the high sun and the warmer temps that time of year because I knew about them. By looking on their local map, it seemed as though the trails I took weren't roads, but then I was proven wrong and by then it was too late to turn back. Can't they put these particular roads/trails out into the fields or something?
QUOTE(snowman1 @ Dec 17 2007, 12:14 AM)
I've been known to do a lot of "silly" things when it comes to snowmobiling, Gary.
Yeah, smikin' is correct, it was the 8 miles of bare "Roads" that they are getting paid for as Corridor A trails that I was referring to. I was referring to the comment that Phantom Rider made about the same subject of roads that they consider trails.
That seems silly to me that Parks would allow this and NYSSA doesn't try to stop things like this from continuing. These particular 8 miles of roads are not their only miles that are actual vehicle roads that are open to cars & trucks all winter either. I tried to stay away from the others due to the high sun and the warmer temps that time of year because I knew about them. By looking on their local map, it seemed as though the trails I took weren't roads, but then I was proven wrong and by then it was too late to turn back. Can't they put these particular roads/trails out into the fields or something?
Yeah, smikin' is correct, it was the 8 miles of bare "Roads" that they are getting paid for as Corridor A trails that I was referring to. I was referring to the comment that Phantom Rider made about the same subject of roads that they consider trails.
That seems silly to me that Parks would allow this and NYSSA doesn't try to stop things like this from continuing. These particular 8 miles of roads are not their only miles that are actual vehicle roads that are open to cars & trucks all winter either. I tried to stay away from the others due to the high sun and the warmer temps that time of year because I knew about them. By looking on their local map, it seemed as though the trails I took weren't roads, but then I was proven wrong and by then it was too late to turn back. Can't they put these particular roads/trails out into the fields or something?
If you are in unknown terratory using maps as your only reference and you are at the 3/4 point of a 200 mile loop you run the road... no choice in the matter. Maybe the maps should start indicating trails that are on actual roads.
The County roads are the worst as they get plowed, sanded and salted more often than seconary roads.
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