so i get home from work.. nice weather not too cold out. we're all hanging out and i walk outside when people are leaving and its snowing out. i despise the weather gods

 

you guys have been hit pretty hard on the "Dry" side of the state this year
but its pretty bad when you get so used to the temp- "not too cold out" means snow

I can't wait until spring sun comes out it goes to 55 and we are all throwing on shorts!

 

Man Iv'e been fighting snow for the last 1 1/2 weeks. It is really open where I live and it's been really cold, so the snow drifts my driveway over even when it doesn't snow. At least it got warm enough yesterday to glaze it over so now it wont drift.
I am going to buy a front end loader before next winter!

 

you can get a nice tractor that has the front end loader attachment - more useful if you've got a bunch of land

 

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I am actually taking a bunch of my riding pals for their first ever snowmobile trip in a few weeks. It is gonna be a freakin blast, and it is the only way to maintain sanity while waiting for the snow to melt.

 

good point sro. instead of getting a klx im gonna get a sled

 

yeah, but sleds are an expensive high-maintenance sport...

 

Man there areso many open fields around here, that the sleds have been out for the last three or four weeks. They even have snowmobile poker runs! But there has been a lot of people getting hurt around here. They will be going along at 70 mph, and hit a ditch that they didn't know was there. One guy clipped an outcropping of snow doing 80 mph and there was a 3" broken off branch in it which speared him through the gut and killed him. It seems like they are more dangerous than bikes from what I have seen.
I know, bikes are dangerous too, but at least you can see what your rolling on!

 

That's why I stick to the hundreds of miles of groomed, marked, technical trails in the UP, or else go out on the lakes.

Bikes are high maintenance too :P

I don't know that I would go and suggest you buy a sled... but don't be adverse to renting one a couple times a year. I have a group of 6 going on this trip and we are all renting.

 

Links to trail maps (note mileage scales):

All of western UP of Michigan: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf

Marquette County: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf
Alger County: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf
Houghton County: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf
Ontonagon County: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf
Baraga County: http://www.midnr.com/Publications/pd...snowmobile.pdf