Posted by Hiawatha on February 16, 2010 under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan | 
Sunday started out with a group of 22 sleds. With a few oops and a couple lost sleds, we finally got to putting on miles late. We made it out to Tippler and got gas & refreshments at the White Tail and hurried home for Valentines Dinner with the ladies. We rode Eagle River, Phelps, Alvin, Nelma and Tippler. We started picking up snow Sunday and had received about 2″ before we made it home from the ride that night. By later evening picked up a total of about 4.5″.
AWESOME WEEKEND with a GREAT group of folks… Looking forward to next year!
WE RIDE!!! 
Posted by Hiawatha on under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
Saturday we headed out for our big group ride with about 30 plus sleds of snow trackers. We rode up to Black Oak and Bents Camp in LandO for the Radar Run, which a few of our group joined in on. We all headed back that evening to the Hiawatha for our evening BBQ. The traffic up in LandO Saturday was pretty heavy. Between the heavy traffic and full sun some of the trails got beat up.
Posted by Hiawatha on under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
This weekend was our annual tracker group ride. Friday after rounding everyone up, we took a rode over to Minocqua and rode the Ski-Doo demo sleds at Cruiser Fest. After playing in Minocqua for a bit, we headed back to Eagle River to meet up with more of the group that came in for the weekend. We rode - Conover, Star Lake, Sayner, Minocqua, St. Germain & Eagle River… overall conditions ranged from fair to good.
Posted by Hiawatha on February 9, 2010 under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
Sorry haven’t posted or ridden in the last few days, we both have been down with the flu since Saturday.
Dawn & I took a spin to St. Germain today to check out Dustin in his attempt to break the world record of most miles in a 24 hour period. When we were there he had about 400 miles behind him, only about 1,000 to go.. GOOD LUCK DUSTIN. He has until 9am ish tomorrow morning.
Trails were a mix out there today, with some fair, some good and some icy areas, but thats to be expected its on trail 70 out and trail 10 coming back which is always on the icy side – usually why we never head from Eagle River to St. Germain. All and all it wasn’t bad. Looking forward to the snowtrackers starting to arrive tomorrow…
Keep the shiny side up and the track spinning!!!
Al
Hiawatha
Posted by Hiawatha on January 31, 2010 under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
Took a ride out today with the Reaper and Jason. Rode up to Phelps, LandO, Conover and back to Eagle River. Ride was AWESOME today. Trail 17 & 6 were both really decent. Trail 13 was a skating rink, and trail 3 coming back into Eagle River was fine. With the exception of a couple of trails the riding up here is still real good. Probably gonna rest up tomorrow, got a “big special” ride on Tues & Wed…
Would really love a little extra snow if that can be arranged! 
WE RIDE!!! 
Al
Posted by Hiawatha on under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
Rode Saturday with Reaper & Rayne. Trails were good, smooth, enough loose snow for lubrication with hard icy base. Most corners held up well, but a few were icy - so ride with caution. Had a great ride!!!
WE RIDE!!!
Posted by Chris on January 29, 2010 under 2011 Skidoo, 2011 Yamaha, Information, Personal Interest, sled blog, snowmobile blog |
I just returned to Toronto from Quebec City where I was holed up in a hotel with our regional reps for three days of ‘spit-balling’ about snowmobiles. We had a chance to get out on the trails with the new sled(z) but unfortunately a freak rain storm dampened the fun. There was one section of trail that got completely wiped out by a flash flood which left huge chunks of ice strewn about the forest. I didn’t get a chance to see it but Jon did and had an image on his i-phone that made me cringe.
Got word today that an old friend Max Aoshima has chosen to retire. What is notable about Max’s announcement, he is, to the best of my knowledge the only engineer left who started working with snowmobile in the 60′s development period which resulted in the SL350 and he has been with snowmobile ever since. His knowledge and sled history is brilliant! Max-san please enjoy your retirement and if you make it to Canada we must go for another ride 
Well we’ll hoist the blue dress high soon enough but if you’d like a little peek at 
what’s under the hood, here’s a little Sled Talk bonus. I am heading out on the road to meet and ride with our Ontario dealers Monday but will post again around this time next week. I have really enjoyed all the comments that have come in on Sled Talk and TY and it will be interesting to see what happens next week. I was asked to do a little video blog on the new sled which will no doubt be popping up pretty soon, sure to get me in some more trouble
I need to ask a small favor. It’s report card time for Sled Talk and I have made a brief survey that I am asking everyone who reads Sled Talk to take the three minutes required to complete. All you need to do is click on this Sled Talk Survey link.
Thanks in advance! cheers cr
Posted by Hiawatha on January 28, 2010 under Blog News, Eagle River, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan, hiawatha, snow conditions, trail conditions |
Rode today with our guests Tom & his buddy Shaker. We rode up thru Phelps to Iron River… we put on a 120 miles. Even tho the trails are a little thin, they are all smooth and in decent shape - plenty of lube for the hyfaxes. We had an awesome ride even tho it was bitter cold. As far as bad areas.. dirt or gravel, didn’t find any today, but the base of the snow is set up really hard. Sure had no problem riding on these.
WE RIDE!!! 
Posted by Hiawatha on January 25, 2010 under Blog News, Eagle River, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan, hiawatha, snow conditins |
Took a ride today with Dawn and Jeff Catlin from Appleton PowerSports. We left Eagle River and took 13N to LandO, the trails were OK - snow covered, and a little rough. We had lunch at the Black Oak then rode trail 6 to Phelps. Trails also still have snow on them, some areas of snirty snow but trail 6 was whooped up the entire way to Phelps. Trail 17 back to Eagle River was actually in decent shape, nicely white snow covered and smooth. Overall it wasn’t a bad ride at all. I don’t think I’d want to make a 200 mile day out of this yet until we have alittle more snow and the groomers have had a chance to get out. The trails are not anywhere near perfect… but able to ride around every where with more than enough snow cover to enjoy some decent riding. Snowing lightly tonite, had a dusting so far. Here’s some pics and a video of todays ride.
On a side note here: To the family from Oak Park, IL that we met at Black Oak today… Thank you for your kind words, glad to see your out having fun on the trails and it was nice to finally meet you..
Al
Hiawatha
VIDEO of trails http://vimeo.com/8981785
Posted by Hiawatha on January 24, 2010 under Blog News, General, Snowmobiling, Trail Reports, Wisconsin/Upper Michigan |
Warm up left the whole northwoods pretty beat up, snows coming down pretty good now. Hopefully it will be good news by the time its all said and done.
Yesterday rode up in the UP with The Breeze, HiRise & Josh. Was suppose to meet The Breeze & HiRise at 9:30, when they didn’t show started heading down the trail to meet up with them… First came upon HiRise sitting on the side of the trail outta gas, with The Breeze 3 miles further down the trail also outta gas… LOL. Did a little towing (note to self - go slower for Matt while towing.. LOL) Got the sleds gassed up on we were on our way. 
Things were pretty beat down and we rode til it started raining. We did a little playing on forest roads and screwed around. All & all had a good day.
Al
Hiawatha
SNOW TODAY! Come on SNOW!
