Rode some of the DATA trails this afternoon. Put on 90 miles between ditches (HWY 27) from Hoffman to the KOA-K trail starting at HWY 27, rode the KOA-K trail up to the Ida Valley trail to Garfield then took the Central Lakes trail to Alexandria. From there took the Prairie Trail to the Ready Riders trail back to KOA-K and ditches back home west of Hoffman.

Ditches were hard, but functional. KOA-K was good condition, only a couple of bare spots. Tried to take the Central Lakes north from Garfield, got just out of Garfield and the black top was showing through pretty good, so I turned around and headed SE on the Central Lakes. That was hard pack, but there was enough snow for the track to loosen up the snow and keep the sled cool. No black top showing though either. Wish I would of went north or turned around at that point and try a different route though, the Prairie was ok and the Ready Riders was the worst of any of the trails. Not terrible, but wish there was more snow. Everything is ridable, but tommorrow I think my wife and I are going to go north from Garfield and see how that is.
I attached a couple of pics. In one of them you can see a couple of deer on the left side of the pic. I seen a whole bunch in a cornfield, but couldn't get the camera out intime to catch all 30 of them run across the trail in front of me. That was cool, made the ride on the Ready Rider worth it.

Wasn't as good as my trips to Duluth and Bemidji, but I will take it! There were some spots on all the trails that were really good and a couple that weren't so good.
Will post a report tommorrow on what we find.

Here is a link to the DATA website so if you are from out of the area you can see what I am talking about. http://www.douglasareatrails.com/trail.cfm

Chris
If your out riding tommorrow and see an F6 and a Vmax riding together give us a wave!

Couple more pics. Didn't see very many sleds this afternoon either. Maybe 10 in 3.5 hours.

Nice race car Chris! My dad said that was the hardest hit he has seen for a long time up at Viking.

Thanks, I try my best to satisfy the fans! haha! And I am still to dumb to quit racing.
Got the video of it a few weeks ago, rolled it 5 times.
You and your dad from up around Alex, come to the races often?
Chris

Put on about 116 miles today. Rode the KOA-K again, Moon Ridge, East Little Alps, South Little Alps, and the Central Lakes from Garfield to just north of Ashby. All trails are getting bare spots in them in all the normal places cause of the sun glaring down at it. There are some really nice spots though also, especially along fence lines and in the trees.
At least today there was still enough snow where if we would of started earlier probably could of made it a lot further. Tommorrow is my oldest boys birthday (4 yrs) so won't be out tommorrow. Hope we get some snow this next week or the sledding around here might be on hold till the March snowstorm.
Keep it safe everyone!
Chris