Greetings Fellow Sno-Cruisers!
We have a Sno-Cruisers club meeting this Saturday at the Bear Point Yacht Club at 9am followed by the fall Adopt a Highway Cleanup along Hwy 180 east of the Yacht Club.
Last year it didn’t take long because we had a lot of hands working together. I believe that we had the stretch of highway cleaned up in a little over an hour, and we collected a couple of truck loads of garbage.
We had our annual meeting in September at Gateway Bar in Crivitz. Chris and I went, and the usual suspects were there. I was a little surprised that there weren’t more people, and I don’t think anyone under 40 was there.
You can catch up with the meeting minutes as well as our events in the newsletters posted to the right.
Hope to see you this Saturday!
RJB
Greetings fellow Sno-Cruisers!
Hopefully your summer is going well. Today was the summer solstice, and now the days start getting shorter as our season gets closer.
We have some events coming up that you should know about.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Bear Point Fun Fishing Day
Bring fish in for bragging rights between 2:30 and 3:00 on sat afternoon.
You can eat or share the fish if you wish.
The fun will be on the deck. No prizes no money just FUN!
Saturday, July 3, 2011 – 1:00 PM
Marty Cooper Memorial Celebration
To all of Marty’s friends! Roxy and the rest of Marty’s family invite you to a celebration of Marty’s life Sunday July 3 rd at 1 :00 at Bear Point Yacht Club. That’s 5 miles east of Wausaukee. Trouble said he would make chicken booyah and there will be sandwiches also. You may bring a dish to pass if you wish.
Thank you,
Slug
=Extra parking across road on grass and road going up to motel
Menominee River Float Trips
Saturday July 9 & 16, 2011 and August 6, 2011
Float Trips start at 11:00 AM.
We meet at the Town of Wausaukee Boat Landing* and float down the Menominee River to Bear Point.
Bring your own flotation device. All ages are welcome but an adult must accompany children under the age of 18. Life jackets are a state law requirement!
*The float trip on August 6 will meet 2 miles west of Bear Point just off of Hwy 180 (about 3/4 miles shorter than the usual trip). Those wanting a longer float can start at the Boat Landing if they wish.
August 20, 2011 Meeting and Highway Clean-Up
The meeting starts at 9:30am and the highway clean up starts afterward.
September 17th, 2011-Second Annual Club Meeting
Our annual meeting #2 at Gateway Bar in Crivitz at 1pm
Last week pneumonia unexpectedly cut short the life of friend and club member Marty Cooper. Marty was very active in the club and I always enjoyed seeing him at functions. He will be missed by a lot of people. Dan G set up a page for him, which I will be adding to. Please stop by and pay your respects.
Thank you,
RJB
From the Big Snow Page..
Unbelievable.. I just watched it snow here on the radar for 20 hours and we didn’t even get a dusting. The snow last night stopped about 10pm. The radar continued to show snow, including some heavier bands, right over us until about 6pm tonight.
Not even a dusting.
I have seen a lot of storms where the rain or snow would evaporate as it fell into the lower levels of the atmosphere, (see Virga) but having it eat all but the first 1/2″ of a snow storm is a fresh one on me. Usually the atmosphere saturates and we get the precip.
Not everywhere got skunked. Dan from Chute Pond is reporting 6-8 and that their trails will open in the morning with fair to goo early season conditions. The TV showed 10″ or more south of about Lena.
I have 1/2″-1″ depending on the spot. Slug said that they saw about a half inch near Wausaukee. The TV showed 1.5 in Carter and 4.5 in Marinette. Niagara, the northern border of Marinette Co, got zip.
Looking ahead there are glimmers of hope. We are in an active pattern, and there will be storms in the region, including some good ones for about the first week in March.
A lot of places around here are starting from bare ground. Sheltered areas still have an ice base. With the current conditions we need a couple of good storms in one week or a home run of a foot or more. That does not look likely in time for this weekend.
Looking at the calendar I don’t like that much. With each passing week the sun gets hotter and the days get longer. The chances of a storm being rain increase, and the chances of it’s snow lasting ’till the weekend don’t. We have about three weeks to have it happen and we are about to lose one of them.
For now the best riding opportunities look to be south of about Hwy 64. Riding around here is not recommended, and the Iron Snowshoe gates south of Hwy C remain locked.
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When I was in Crivitz and Wausaukee last week fields were getting pretty bare. A half inch or an inch was not what we were hoping for.
RJB
CM28
Finally!
The storm from Friday night brought a lot of snow. It is still early so I don’t have area wide snow totals yet, but I can tell you that as of 2am I have at least 7″ here in Silver Cliff.
Last week we had conditions that ranged from just good enough to really pretty nice. The common factor was a nice flat base where the clubs had worked what snow that we had into the best trail that it could be. Now we have a nice blanket of snow on top of it.
It is supposed to be in the mid-20s today and with the fresh snow and a few flurries it should be a great day to go riding.
Have fun and be safe!
RJB
CM # 28
