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Marc B 1/22/11

For those of you who didn't think the local riding would not be good, sorry to say but you are sadly mistaken.

Three of us ventured out once again from my house today.....Trailmaster Roland L, Colonel Paul M and myself, your humble secretary, in the direction we failed to endeavor last week, past the Mitchell hill overlook towards the RT 13 state trail in the Wilton/Lyndeboro system.

After the obligatory stop for the view, we continued on towards Wilton where we came upon a new intersection for route 13 which has a nice BIG placard sign with the Hollis clubs new mapping system on it covering the total span of trails from the Silver lake area all the way to the Wilton/Lyndeboro system.

We stopped to review our planned route and the next thing we know (where is George when you need him) our local "Man in Green" (Todd Z) shows up behind us. We did the usual meet and greet after of course he visually checks out our stickers for legitimacy's sake.

Roland introduces himself and the rest as Sno-Buds and Todd asks "where's George.....don't I owe him a ticket ?" (JK)

After the brief exchange, we confirmed with Todd that the DOT HAS APPROVED the crossing in northern Brookline (both crossings by the way). HE did say that the DOT DOES NOT want sleds crossing that bridge at a diagonal. They want sleds to cross perpendicular to the road and then continue down the side.

We allowed Todd to continue along towards Wilton ahead of us as he was talking about his favorie spots for running radar. NOTE to self: when we get on the railbed watch your speed.

Sure enough, 10 miles or so later on the railbed (thinking of you George) we run into Todd's radar trap.....we quietly waved to him as we toodled by at 42MPH ;-) BTW George, you should have come with us.....not only did we run into the Man in Green but we also did railroad bed WITH RAILS and none we exposed AND Paul didn't get stuck !!! (Tim wasn't around)

As we approached Greenfield we came upon Cliff Russell doing some grooming with his mini Kubota that only does 2-3 MPH if your lucky. At least it has power steering.

We continued on past Greenfield State Park towards Bennington and Hillsboro. For the most part the riding was fairly smooth with many spots groomed. Once we arrived into Hillsboro, we came upon a spot where the trail seemed to disappear but come to find out a payloader had cleaned up an intersection and had just dumped large snow boulders near the trail. While we were attempting to cross, a guy in a snowplow pickup stopped and asked if we knew where a certain road was. We told him we weren't from this area and that we were just looking to cross the snow boulder to get to Hillsboro. He decided to be the Good Samaritan and move the boulder with his plow.......we all know what happens when you try to be a good samaritan.....he got stuck.....and I mean STUCK. We eventually got him out with the help of another guy who had a chain to tow him out.

At this point we decided to turn around and head back to the Sunoco/Deli in Bennington to get a quick sandwich...(2 PMish....good thing Newt wasn't with us)

After the quick lunch, we made the trek back to my house after making another view stop at a different outlook which shows Pack Monadnock.

All in all it was a great day of riding.....83 miles and we didn't have to trailer 83 miles to do it.

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Chuck 1/17

Saturday Denny, Bob dropped into Groton for a wonderful 75 miles through the trails of Hardy country, Baker River, Lyme, and Rumney. All were rolled except for BAker River where the groomer has been working hard. A couple of trail closed notes: the Lyme trail from the ski way to Quinn town is closed for logging. The Baker trail "Rocky pond" is open again, having been closed last week for logging. It got hit with a wind micro burst which toppled thousands of huge trees. Be sure to take a look if your riding BRVSC. The Jewell trail is closed in HArdy Country due to a land owner issue. Its taped off BUT is open for riding just no grooming. (trail from Sculptured rocks to Province road)

Sunday was a vacant land wanting sleds but many were holed up for the game.

Today- I decided to watch the sun rise over Newfound lake, breakfast in Hebron and a return trough the Tenney Meadows. The groomer was out filling waterbars and getting ready for the snow tomorrow. That brings the riding to a shade under 200 miles this week. All the trails are rideable, some are good, a bit more snow to fill in the dips and bumps and it will be great. My drive is plowed and available for anyone wanting to start from Groton. About 20" on the ground. and the power line is snirty in places of wind scower.

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George 1/14 and 1/15

In addition to riding with Marc, Sheldon, Denny and Paul on Friday in Brookline, that evening, I also rode with Newt from his house into Horse Hill to open the trails. Our two fan-cooled sleds ran great discounting us both getting stuck once (okay, me, 1 1/2 times - pulled an Sheldon on a bridge, left ski on the bridge, right ski not so much, reverse worked, no pictures, and I may have forgotten to mention to Newt :) Fun evening under a clear sky.

And Saturday afternoon, Pam, Bill, Lisa and I rode Hollis. Parked at Silver Lake State Park ~12:30 and rode to Brookdale's, then around the town forest, all excellent trails, our 'Thanks' to the Nor'Easters, then across the road at Silver Lake, through the orchards and continued to downtown Monson Village for a rest. We didn't quite make it to Federal Hill Fire Tower, turned around in Monson, but a very enjoyable, local afternoon ride on great trails.

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Dave B 1/15

Marc, Paul and I road from Lake Massabesic down the rail line as far as Onway Lake. The best grooming was between the tunnels at RT101 at exit 3. The Slickers have been working hard to keep that section in great shape.

We returned and headed to Tower Hill and the Slickers club house for a brunch. From there we went to Bear Brook for a few loops around the park.

We headed back to the rail line and a few more laps about the trails at little Lake Massabesic.

Over all the rails went from good to fair. Most of the trails were turning brown later in the day.

We end the day with about 70 miles on the sleds.

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