Well the skiing was so bad on saturday that we had to take the ride up north on Sunday to check things out. My usual crew of riding partners were no where to be found all scared off by the doom and gloom crowd So I take my son for his first ride up on the big trails. We load up his 440, my F7 and since the trailer holds 4 I took my bro's F7 for a backup/parts sled. left Brownsville at 6:00 and arrived at the miles pond pull off b4 8:00. first mile up is always iffy
and today was no different 3 small stream crossings and were at 102. North past the pipeline over wilkes mtn. bare as it always is on the south facing hill climes but other then that the trail has a nice base and is fairly smooth. Just b4 we get to the RT1 intersection we come to a big waterbar 3 foot ice walls on both sides and a stream running through it, not passable. Only way north is to backtrack down to the pipeline and ride it west to the 315 feeder trail. If you ride the pipeline you know how bad it gets after a warm up with all the bogs and soft spots. but unless we ride through the posted closed trail sign to get around the washout we have no other choice back down we go. Pipeline was better then i hoped not much traffic since he groomed pre-warmup 5 or 10 waterbars and we make it to 315. RT1 back to 102N pick up freahly groomed trail just past the sawdust pile and now the riding is just perfect. Gas up in Bloomfiled,
give the kid a safty speech and were off for the east branch. Every trail north of stone dam is freshly groomed and just perfect hard and fast. Hit the east branch at midstation and Jr. gets his first real speed run up to RT97 over to RT96 and back down to the surplus can lady just groomed and perfect. His 440 breaks the spring holder bolt so we McGiver it and limp back south to the car 170 miles. first big ride with my son and he can't stop taking about how great his sled is and how awsome the trails are up north. He'll be leaving soon I'll hold on to this day for a long time. Get out and ride
Schifty

Freshly groomed trail just past the sawdust pile? That was closed to snowmobilers 3-4 years ago. Has it been reopened?

proberly my error I thought the sawdust pile was the intersection where RT1 is now closed

Actually, the sawdust pile was at the junction of the 102 trail and F102 (BZA Road) which was shut down by the NY trust that purchased the land. Coming north you would have gone straight through a no snowmobiling sign instead of taking the 90 degree left to the junction of the south end of the 1 trail to get to the sawdust pile. Is that confusing enough?

nope, I understand what your saying. that's just where the big washout was located.