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Grooming we all want to ride groomed trails all the time. It takes 4 full days to groom the entire system adequately. A typical grooming cycle starts on Monday morning and finishes Thursday evening. That’s four 10 hour shifts per groomer over that time. Included in that time is equipment maintenance, fueling and traveling etc. Friday is usually spent re-grooming the heaviest used trails before the weekend. When the heavy volumes hit usually sometime on Friday through Sunday, it’s not possible to do 4 days of work overnight Friday or Saturday night to restore the good conditions. Admittedly, we dropped the ball on some weekend nights and did not have one or both groomers run-ning, but we promise to make sure we have someone available to “touch them up” over the weekends, but please don’t expect miracles. Due to the amount of tight trails and heavy volume over the weekends, we will not generally do daytime weekend grooming due to safety concerns. We’ve had many offers to help out on grooming and we’d like to entertain more operators for at least weekend backup help. After we inform you of what is involved, please do not hesitate to still offer if this doesn’t scare you off. You must be able and willing to: devote at least 7-10 hours to a shift (day or night) sometimes on short notice, be able to fix or solve any problems that might occur on the shift (track jumps off, fluid line breaks, blade or drag repairs, electrical malfunctions, getting the drag or tractor unstuck, etc). All this plus you’ll need 3-5 shifts of instruction to be able to properly handle the simple trails by your self. It’s unacceptable to leave a disabled groomer somewhere and simply call someone to say where it is and to “come get it”. To summarize; it is a time consuming, boring and generally only for persons familiar with large equipment with a fair amount of skill and ability to “MacGyver” a repair. Finally on the grooming topic, the manner we must handle a new snowfall differs from the great lakes region where the trails are generally wider and recipient of more snow. We must wait a period of hours (sometimes a day or two) for the sleds to pack the new snow down and widen the trails. If we don’t do that, then we will only scrape most of the new snow off and it’ll end up mostly useless. That is why the trail conditions will likely never be very good until around day three after a new snow.
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