What a Saturday it was on the eastern trail system. Trailer load after trailer load of sleds heading east with hundreds of sleds enjoying the close to 350 kms of trail. By evening some of the most heavily traveled areas were showing the effects of the heavy traffic and were getting beat up bad. Plan was to have 3 groomers go last night and do some of the busier loops but unfortunately one of the machines decided because it had a hole in a fuel filter it was not going anywhere so we adjusted our schedule and the two groomers ended up doing the necessary trails but in some cases only had one pass instead of the planned two passes. The # 4 left from Grandview Welding and headed for Murray Harbour on the # 104 and after making it to Ocean Acres it turned and headed back on the # 305 through the County Line Road and Greenfield. The operator then returned for fuel and took the #104 to Pisquid River through Lake Verde and as I write this he is returning back to Grandview.
The # 1 Groomer also left through the night and did the # 217 through Greenfield and on to New Perth, then west on the # 103 to Mt. Stewart and then returning back to Grandview on the same route. Unfortunately we can not get over the entire trail system in one evening to give it all a refresh, but at least some of the main trails have been given a fresh pass. The groomers will not be running today because of the anticipated traffic but plan is to run tonight