What first? Good News – I’m back and healthy! As Rob can tell you, that flu sucked the life out of me! Then I got pnuemonia too. Damn near dead for awhile there. But I’m back, though not too excited about grooming and the fact that it just keeps snowing! Stop the snow dance, stop it now, and make up a warm and sunny dance! 
Bad news – the main snowmobile, the $11,000 only 2 season old one, is one big pile of crap!!!! Seems the brain, the computer, just quit, and since the warranty was 30 seconds or 30 feet, whichever came first, we are stuck eating the cost of that. And we managed to somehow wreck the entire right shock/swingarm assembly in the deep snow (gotta mark those stumps better next year-with big sticks that don’t get buried) so we are in debt about $2600.00 just to get it running! Damn! Going to have to raise those fees next year…
The good old Forest Service Arctic Cat, though under-powered and old as the hills themselves, keeps on ticking, so, though we are back to the old days grooming wise – fence and manual groomers – we are still able to groom, and it’s actually pretty darn good.
We are grooming Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday evening, and Sunday morning this week – so, assuming I didn’t just jinx the Arctic Cat, we should have great skiing this weekend. Come out and enjoy it as we are about ready for a warm spell (do that dance) and when that happens we’ll quit grooming. So see you on the trail this weekend!
One last 10:00am group ski? Anyone? 1 lap skate warm-up followed by one lap hard?
Rick
