3-8-10: Sorry, but we now have to officially close all of our trails for this season. There is no snow from Sciota Inn South to Corry and also from Corry to Columbus and Bear Lake. The snow conditions from Corry north to Clymer are poor and Corry to Wattsburg is closed now due to landowner requests. I hope that you all had a good season; I know that it was too short…. We still have to take down all trail signs – that project begins Sunday 3-14 and we will continue to work Sundays until it is done. Thanks to everyone who helped us with trail work this season – you know who you are… Thanks to you we had the best trails ever this year and we will continue to improve them over the summer – looking forward to an even better season next fall! THANKS! -Chuck
3-5-10- Trail is closed to the gas station from Sciota Inn and Corry Country Club, All Trails will probably be closed by Saturday, stay off bare ground.
3-1-10 – Trails are hard packed from warm weather, We are still grooming trails Corry to Clymer done yesterday, Corry to Wattsburg tonite And a 2nd time tomorrow, Corry to Columbus Wednesday Bear Lake later this week, Sparta may not get groomed this week, operator is out of town. Thanks Jon Andrus
2-26-10 – We did get about 4-6″ of snow last night. Conditions have improved because of this. Corry to Wattsburg is good, Corry to Clymer also good. Corry to Alderbottom road is fair – it could use some more snow. Bear Lake conditions are also good. Ride safely!!! Watch for construction on between Corry and Clymer… – Chuck
2-22-10 – Conditions are poor now around the city of Corry. NO SNOW south of Sciota Inn down into town to the gas station. PLEASE do not ride. Conditions from Sciota Inn North to Clymer are fair. Corry east to Columbus also poor due to no snow. Please stay off of trails until we get more snow. Conditions on Carter Hill are good, BUT, please don’t ride – you have to go through Carter Heights GC, and there are bare spots there. We don’t want to lose that trail due to an upset land owner…. THANKS! – Chuck
Wed. 2-17-10 – Conditions still good to excellent. Grooming continues nightly. Bear Lake and Corry to Alderbottom groomed last night. Corry to Wattsburg conditions excellent, Corry to Clymer Excellent. Bear Lake Excellent. More snow is is the forecast too! PLEASE READ THE 2-8-10 entry below! Ride Safely… – Chuck
Monday 2-15-10 – Conditions good to excellent. Corry-Clymer groomed 2-14, Happy Valentines! Grooming tonight Corry to Wattsburg, Corry to Alderbottom Road later this week… PLEASE READ THE 2-8-10 entry below!
Monday 2-8-10 – CAUTION - Trail construction in progress NOW! The trail from Corry to Clymer is being renovated. There is currently brush cutting, chipping, and stump removal in progress. This trail MAY BE CLOSED periodically due to this construction. PLEASE OBEY TRAIL CLOSED SIGNS – we mean it! There will be bare areas, equipment, PEOPLE, logs, etc. on the trail. Go slow and if you see trail closed signs, please turn around. We will try to minimize the amount of time that the trail is actually closed, but can’t keep the trail open all of the time during this phase of construction work. Conditions from Corry to Wattsburg are currently good, with a few bare spots. Corry to Clymer conditions are good with the construction excepted. Corry to Columbus is only fair due to lack of snow. Bear Lake area is good. There is snow in the immediate forecast, so conditions should improve over the next few days. Please don’t spin your track on groomed trails and PLEASE don’t spin snow onto the roadways! THANKS – Chuck
Tuesday 2-2-10: Please note: club bonfire on the trail across from Sciota Inn on Saturday 2-13-10. Starts mid afternoon, goes until fire goes out!
Sunday 1-31-10: conditions from Clymer to Corry to Wattsburg are excellent – from Corry east to Columbus and Bear Lake are fair due to not enough snow cover. Please ride safely, stay on trails and PLEASE don’t spin your track on groomed trail surface. Think Snow! – Chuck
Thursday 1-28-10: Trails open again; conditions poor to fair, BUT – the weather forecast is favorable and conditions should slowly improve over the next several days. We need more snow & it’s coming – slowly. Please watch for ditches caused by rain runoff and for obstructions that have been exposed as the snow melted. BE CAREFUL! – Chuck
Monday 1-25-10: OK – I couldn’t resist posting here again before we re-open trails! Can’t stop thinking about riding & grooming! After our VFW fundraiser breakfast yesterday, six of us crazy idiots worked on a bridge on the Carter Hill gas line by the Wattsburg game lands. It rained hard all day. We completely re-decked the 32′ long bridge. If you see any of these people you definitely owe them a HUGE THANKS! : Catlin Pondel, Jon Andrus, Bill Hayes, Ryan Swart, Curtis Martin and myself. Curtis was most definitely the WETTEST of all of us. We did build a nice fire to help to keep warm, but really, all it did was warm up the water in our soaked clothes. We finished up well after dark, at about 7:00 pm – a long day. Thanks to all of these hard working sledders! Now, the forecast is looking better, but we’ve lost almost all of our base; it was above 45 degrees yesterday and I don’t know how much rain we received – A LOT I guess, covers it. THINK SNOW! – Chuck
Tuesday 1-19-10: Bad news – we have to officially close trails to protect landowners property – which in turn protects our future trails. The snow is still melting and the weather forecast is for continued warm days, which will melt more snow. PLEASE stay off of the trails (especially golf course trails) until we get more snow. My next update will be to open trails when weather premits. Thanks – Chuck…..
Monday 1-18-10: Trail conditions continue to deteriorate due to continued warm weather and rain. Please do not ride. There is very marginal snow cover on the golf courses, especially in the corners. Carter Hill is still OK with snow cover but it is still very wet underneath with numerous holes where the groomer has not packed in a trail. Conditions from Corry to Bear Lake are poor as well, with inadequate snow cover throughout. Think SNOW, people – maybe my next update will be happier! – Chuck
Friday 1-15-10: Conditions are deteriorating due to warm (mid 30’s) temperatures and light rain. Trails are still rideable and will probably hold up if temps don’t rise too much or we get any real amounts of rain. Keep your fingers crossed for colder weather! – Chuck
Wednesday 1-13-10: Conditions continue to be excellent, grooming continues nightly system wide. Ride safely, keep right, enjoy our fine trails. – Chuck
Sunday 1-10-10: Conditions are excellent now with good snow base almost everywhere. Grooming will continue this week, with Corry to Rte 474 in Wattsburg next on the list. Our trails are smooth and fast – PLEASE be careful! Don’t speed and as Jon mentioned – PLEASE don’s spin your track on groomed surfaces.
Saturday 1-9-10; We groomed Corry to Clymer and North Hills, Corry to Spartansburg this morning, Bear Lake to end of no maintenance road last nite. Corry to Columbus good. Still a few ditches open be careful, please don’t spin track keep right. – Thanks Jon Andrus
Thursday 1-7-10: Trail conditions are good to excellent. Grooming has been ongoing from Clymer to Corry to Bear Lake. Carter Hill to Wattsburg has had limited grooming due to excessive snow depth with mud underneath. We need some bridges on Carter Hill, but it is passable. Hopefully by this weekend we will have a good groomed surface – but remember – the trail trhough the game lands does not open until 1-17-10. Ride safely! – Chuck
Sunday 1-3-10: Trails are open, coniditions are fair, due to no real base yet and LOTS of light, fluffy snow. Conditions should rapidly improve over the next couple of days as the snow gets packed down by traffic and time. The weather forecast is looking good, both temperature and continued snow fall. Please stay on the trails, ESPECIALLY throught the Golf Courses. We don’t want to lose any landowner permissions! Carter Hill is still muddy, but this should improve as well over the next few days. Ride Safe! -Chuck
Thursday 12-24-09: Carter Heights to Rte 474 is marked. We still need to replace 3 and repair 2 bridges on Carter Hill. Remember, the Gamelands don’t open until Jan 17th.! The trails are open, but conditions are POOR at best. Lots of mud holes, rocks on the Corry-Clymer RR grade. If we get rain tomorrow (Christmas Day), we will have to close trails until we get more snow cover. Thanks – Chuck.
Sunday 12-20-09: We had good help today. After our VFW breakfast, Jon Andrus, Catlin Pondel, Ryan Swart and Greg Rushin marked from the Country Club to Alderbottom Road. John Tobin, Bill Hajec and myself finished marking from Hereford Road to the New York line, cutting some downed trees along the way. We also put runners on the Sciota Inn bridge. Thanks again to all who gave their time this weekend. So – now all we have left to mark is WalMart to Sparty and Carter Heights to Rte. 474 in Wattsburg… THINK SNOW! -Chuck
Saturday 12-19-09: Frank Martin and Jim Clayton marked from Bear Lake Inn to Alderbottom road, John Tobin and myself marked from Carter Hill road to Carter Heights GC. Thanks guys! – Chuck
Sunday 12/13/09: Pretty good turn out for a rainy day. Catlin Pondel, Ryan Swart, Greg Rushin, Jon Andrus (sporting a self inflicted illness!), Bill Hajec and Chuck Thompson (& Hot Dog – he moved moles out of the trail and helped to ‘mark’ the trails!) worked several hours in the rain. More trail marked on Carter Hill and Corry to Columbus is now done as well. Thanks to all who helped! Mark Munsee worked on readying the big groomer and Bill Hayes worked many hours (also many hours over the last several weeks) constructing a new drag for the Spartansburg groomer. Thanks also to these guys!
Our trails are not officially open yet, due to crappy snow conditions and rain. The forecast is looking good, though and hopefully we can open them toward the end of the week (12-17, 18, ???). -Chuck
Trail work will continue on Sundays until complete – 10 am at storage bldg.
Our trails WILL open, pending enough snow cover, on Sunday 12-13-09. Please note, New York trails don’t open until 12-23-09.
12-7-09: Good turnout on 12-6-09 to help with signs and brush clearing! Jon Andrus, Craig Bailey, John Tobin, Ryan Swart, Catlin Pondel, David Thompson, Alex Young, Bill Hajec, Chuck Thompson, Greg Rushin, Mark Munsee and Doug Grinder. Most worked until dark. We were able to put up signs between Carter Hill Road and Russell Road and between Corry and Hereford Road. Also moved a major pile of dirt and debris blocking the trail near Plank Road. THANKS to all who showed up to help. Trail work will continue next Sunday at 10am – meet at the storage sheds. THANKS! …Chuck
Trail Conditions
3-5-09 – That’s all folks! It was a pretty good season and our new groomer made it even better. We have been removing trail signs this week and will have all of the signs removed by next week. Please thank any landowners that you know for allowing us to use their property. There will be sporadic work on trails over the summer, please contact me if you get ambitious & would like to help to improve our trail system – I do have a job list. Also, over the next two or three weeks we should be doing groomer work to ready them for hibernation. A big THANK YOU to all of you who helped work on trails, put up signs, build bridges, donated equipment, materials & time and operate our grooming equipment. We had great trails this year thanks to you! See you next fall! – Chuck
2-26-09 – Trails are CLOSED again due to warm weather & rain. The conditions (snow depth) was marginal even on Sunday (2-22-09) around the Columbus and Bear Lake areas, but now the snow is gone on a lot of the trails there. If the weather cooperates, we hope to open trails again this year. Think Snow! – Chuck
2-24-09 – Trails Corry to Wattsburg groomed Sunday afternoon, Corry to Clymer groomed Monday nite, Corry to Bear Lake not done yet, or Corry to Spartansburg.
2-22-09 – Trails are rough need groomed and we need more snow, some ditches have opened up so be careful, please tell people to stay on the trails and keep the Four Wheelers off or we will lose the trail. Grooming should start Monday.
2-20-09 – Trails are OPEN, but there is only a marginal amount of snow. It’s snowing hard right now so conditions will improve, hopefully, over the next 12 hours. There are LARGE DITCHES where the snow has melted and eroded the snow. Most of the trail surfaces between Clymer, Corry and Wattsburg are well covered and hard, with any snow bridges still OK – BUT DON’T TRY TO RIDE ‘off to the side’ of the packed trail. The erosion ditches are LARGE, DEEP and HARD. From Corry to Columbus and Bear Lake, there is less snow but conditions are improving. Bottom line is BE CAREFUL and watch for HAZARDS. PLEASE stay on designated trails and ride safely. – Chuck
2-13-09 – Trails still closed, it has snowed, but not much. There is still significant snow in the woods, but the fields and lower areas (Corry / Columbus / Bear Lake) still have only a dusting of snow – not enough to open trails. The forecast does not look promising for the next few days….. :^( When trails are snow covered enough to re-open – BEWARE OF DITCHES CAUSED BY THE MELT. They will hurt if you hit ‘em! Check back here for updates….. – Chuck
2-9-09 – Sorry Gang, trails have to be closed at this time due to lack of snow. I wouldn’t have believed that that much snow could melt so quickly. There is still snow in some areas, but getting through area to area is impossible now. PLEASE don’t ride until we get more snow – your cooperation will help keep landowners happy & keep our trails available! THANKS! – Chuck
2-8-09 – Trails - Do not ride if there is not enough snow on trail, we lost a lot of snow and the trails through the woods have a lot of bare spots. Wait for more snow!!!!!
2-7-09 – Trails are getting studder bumps, warm up may make them rough, don’t know if we’ll groom depending on temperatures.
2-6-09 – Trail from Corry to Bear Lake Groomed very smooth!!!
2-4-09 – Trail from Corry to Wattsburg & Corry to Clymer & Spartansburg trail Groomed.
2-2-09 – Trails are rough from the weekend grooming will continue through the week.
1-31-09 – Trails look awesome, groomed from Corry to Clymer, Spartansburg Trail & Carter hill was done on Thursday, Corry to Columbus on Wednesday hasn’t been much traffic on the trails, lots of snow Bear Lake is a little rough sound be groomed today, ride in to the Bonfire across from Sciota Inn. Stay on Trails Be Careful. Pres.
1-28-09 – It’s snowing again! Our trails were getting pretty well beat up by a high volume of traffic. Areas through the woods like North Hills have some small bumps building up but not quite enough snow to groom them out effectively. The Corry – Clymer trail is smooth now & will be groomed again before the weekend. Corry to Bear Lake is fair with some bumps through the swamp & into Bear Lake. Grooming is planned for this as well. Corry to Wattsburg is fair, again with moguls building up due to heavy traffic. Grooming and brush trimming is planned for Thursday there. Corry to Spartansburg was good on Sunday 1-25 but again had a large volume of traffic. Grooming and brush trimming is scheduled here too for this week. Come to the bonfire on Saturday at Sciota Inn, 5pm to ???? Ride safely! – Chuck
1-24-09 Trails have melted some starting to get small bumps warm last nite cold today bumps will be harder, should have Groomer out tonite in Corry area & Bear Lake, Groomer is out on Carter hill today. Watch for people working on trail. Pres.
1-20-09 Trails where groomed last night Corry to Clymer, Corry to Wattsburg rest will be groomed this week Breakfast Sunday at VFW. Pres.
1-19-09 Trails are getting rough as of Sunday night. LOTS of traffic over the weekend…. Grooming will begin again tonight… The weather forecast is favorable for the next week… Ride safely… – Chuck
1 -16-09 Trail from Corry To Spartansburg was groomed last nite and Corry to Wattsburg today, Trail from Tammarack swamp to Bear Lake needs groomed should be done tonite. If you go to Spartansburg take Shady Ave. it is not marked go SLOW!!!!
1-15-09 Trails are excellent Groomed from Russell Road to Alderbottom Road in Columbus, Railroad bed is smooth, new snow on trail to Wattsburg probably drifting on the trail, Spartansburg got more snow Yesterday and Today around 12-14″ has not been groomed yet, becareful watch for Groomers and signs that aren’t up yet need a few more stop signs, some ditches still open, Respect Landowners and stay on trail Ride Safe 
Pres.
1-12-09 Trails are, for the most part, fantastic! We have had enough snow now and cold temps. The trail base is building up and fresh snow and colder ( single digit highs ) temps are forecast for the remainder of the week. We have been grooming a lot with our new machine and also have had one of the Thiokols out as well. The gas line trail on Carter Hill is very wet still, with several muddy spots. Hopefully this will improve rapidly this week with grooming and low temps. Ride Safely….. – Chuck
1-8-09 – Trails open again. We did lose most of the base though. It’s snowing now and snow and low temperatures are forecast for at least through 1-14-09. Ride carefully though and remember, no snow filling in the ditches. I’ll try to post tomorrow after hopefully a recon ride tonight to check out the conditions. – Chuck
12-29-08 - Here is a quick list of trail work that has been done recently, and stuff that still needs to be done: THANKS to Bill Mitchell, Steve Bimber, John Graham, John Bova, Sarah Thompson, Alec Bimber, Bill Hajec, Ryan Swart and Frank
