Grooming Report for February 23, 2024
Cat went to Cold Springs and to 4 Mile and into Rye Spur today. Snow is iffy down low with a bunch of bad spots after the bridge on Cold Springs.
Grooming Report for February 22, 2024
Cat did about 48 miles in 9.5 hours. Nice day on the snow!
Grooming Report for February 22, 2024
Ken and Jim had the cat out today, they made their way up toward Buck Peak via the Sunset Trail. Because of the awesome saw work that the USFS Klamath District Rec folks did, they pushed 73 trees but only had to cut a few! Ken stated that the snow toward the top was over the top of the tracks on the cat, so there is snow at higher elevations! No pics, but the trail to Buck Peak is open!
Grooming Report for February 21, 2024
Thanks Wednesday groomers out of Big meadow today
Grooming Report for February 15, 2024
Steve and Dan made it out with Old Yeller today, after doing some troubleshooting on "Flipper". We apparently have a hydraulic valve stuck or an O ring that is not sealing. The Piston Bully tech will be here tomorrow to get it repaired.
We groomed into Lake of the Woods, then went toward the Sunset Trail and to the end of Varney Creek. Time was short today, so we did not start heading toward Buck Peak.
The good news... the saw didn't come off the cat all day
(small victories, I know!)
Grooming Report for February 14, 2024
Bill and Bill had the cat out today, they made it past the Brown Mountain Shelter intersection and headed west toward the 37 Road. They got as far as Intersection 32 (where Daley Creek meets Daley Prairie, end of the pavement) and headed back to the barn.
We are still dealing with a ton of trees and now there is new snow on top of some of the stuff, which makes it very hard on the cat.
Be patient, we will get there one of these days!
Grooming Report for January 16, 2024
Another day, another 1000 board feet
Ken and Mike took "Flipper" (the new PB 400) out and Bill and Dan took out "Old Yeller" to hit those pesky trees again. But... we had helpers! A crew of four from the USFS on snowmobiles and Brandon, our concrete guru, came out to help us. It is still a mess, but with more saws running and more folks, we made better progress today. The snow is DEEP (Micky calls it "post hole" snow, because when you walk, you leave post holes
). I call
it a way to get your cardio without a gym membership!
"Flipper" went back to the East Fourmile trail, and whacked away at the trees. Old Yeller went across the Pierce trail to the Fourmile trail. There are a TON of powerline and tree folks trying to get the power back up, it's a mess for those guys. We made it about 2 miles up, and have the same situation as East Fourmile; LOTS of trees, many big ones blocking access. You won 't be able to get to Fourmile lake until we can get the cats all the way through. It is SLOW going!!
We will be hitting it again tomorrow, again with the aid of the USFS. It is great to have them out there, we get a lot more done with more saws!