Updates from Meredith Sno-Streakers Snowmobile Club

ACutAbove · 01-28-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Old Hubbard Rd

A couple weeks ago we tried coming from Little Squam thru Holderness headed to the Mug and got stuck in that damb swamp. It S--ked!! I said that was the last time I would ever go that way. Keep me posted. I may change my thoughts if I get different reports.

I went thru there yesterday about 330ish and the trail wasnt to bad. Everything was passable. I am hopeing it stays that way for a while as it is the quickest way south for me , rather than going all the way up to ashland to get on the tracks just to go south.

Squam and little squam is frozen. I have ridden bothof those in the last week.

ITD · 01-28-2008, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ACutAbove

Squam and little squam is frozen. I have ridden bothof those in the last week.

Thank you.....

boat_guy64 · 01-28-2008, 03:15 PM

This weekend, I rode the prison loop, south downs and up to Plymouth. A few minor detours north of Ashland but they are all well marked as easy to get around. Trails are awesome. I'm new to riding here and I can't believe how much fun it is. Thanks to all the groomers and the volunteers that worked so hard to make this a really fun place to ride. Pray for more snow and cool daytime temps. I'd like to have these conditions for a couple more months. (Then it should go immediately to 80 so we can get out the boats)

murph · 01-28-2008, 04:48 PM

Can anyone give me information about the ice around Center Harbor, Levitt PArk area? planning on going up this weekend for a ride. Also wondering how the trails to North Conway are, and/or the laconia area trails.

Old Hubbard Rd · 01-29-2008, 07:53 AM

Update on volunteers at Sno-Streakers:
Just so you know Sue is a member who volunteered to mail out the membership cards and I built the web site and do trail work but neither of us are in charge or heads of anything at Sno-Streakers. The president is Todd Andrews, the trail master is Hank Denison, the treasurer is Gus Jenkins, and I think the secretary is Patty Denison.
Could you reference "Sno-Streakers Trail Report" when you quote (copy/paste) directly from the site. Maybe that will direct some traffic back to our site so people can use the map features etc. I currently field on average about five E-Mails directly from sno-streakers.com a day during riding season and more before big weekends. Recently I have received many about the ice. Telling people the ice is safe (which I never do) is tricky business - there are drastic differences from lake to lake and around springs and inlets . I do not have much computer time at work so I do most of this at night after work
Thanks,
Ben

Old Hubbard Rd · 01-29-2008, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ACutAbove

I went thru there yesterday about 330ish and the trail wasnt to bad. Everything was passable. I am hopeing it stays that way for a while as it is the quickest way south for me , rather than going all the way up to ashland to get on the tracks just to go south.

Squam and little squam is frozen. I have ridden bothof those in the last week.

A Cut Above the word "Passable" scares me. We are so spoiled these days with "groomed" trails

I would love for that trail to get groomed. I would enjoy starting the morning off at Waukewan and headeing up the tracks to Ashland then left to Bridgewater up to Rumney down to Plymouth over to Holderness and end at the Mug in Meredith. That would be a fun run!!

ACutAbove · 01-29-2008, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Old Hubbard Rd

A Cut Above the word "Passable" scares me. We are so spoiled these days with "groomed" trails

I would love for that trail to get groomed. I would enjoy starting the morning off at Waukewan and headeing up the tracks to Ashland then left to Bridgewater up to Rumney down to Plymouth over to Holderness and end at the Mug in Meredith. That would be a fun run!!

I guess that is a bad word to use to sum up a trail. I will say it was alot better than the 1st time I went down it. The mud puddles were frozen over and there was plenty of snow coverage. ,although it is a bit tight in some spots and that is due to it going down into the swamp. If it could be rerouted up out of there it would be a nice trail.
With that being said there is alot of swamp it crosses in sections and I doubt it would ever be able to be groomed all the way thru, unless a small drag was available to pull behind a snowmobile.

donmac · 01-29-2008, 01:53 PM

I did about 50 miles this morning from Winona, to 104, down to Winnisquam, then across to New Hampton - most the trails are in good shape.

The trail from Meredith to Waukewan was pretty (very) rough the other day.

I agree with comments that the trails from Little Squam, to White Oak, to Meredith are often not up to par with other local trails.

A new landowner on Hawkins Pond has blocked local riders with the connection from Hawkins Pond to the primary trail on East Holderness Rd - I feel sorry for the kids in the area.

Zee · 01-30-2008, 10:27 AM

Boatguy64, could you tell me about the prison loop? Trail numbers if possible.

SAMIAM · 01-29-2008, 11:53 AM

We hit the Rumney/Baker River trails on monday and the riding was just great. Most trails had been grromed all night on sunday and we were the first ones on some of them.Could have sipped a glass of wine at 30mph.Nice,too,that they groom right up to some of the restaurants.

Old Hubbard Rd · 01-31-2008, 10:49 PM

1-30-08 Wednesday - Rain and warm temps. The trails were soft so I stayed off them but from my truck it looked like the trails held up well with rails showing, a little, near road intersections. Cold temps. tonight and the possibility of snow and ice pellets on Friday -lets hope for the best.

Check out our weather page:

http://www.sno-streakers.com/weather.html

boat_guy64 · 02-01-2008, 12:30 AM

Zee,

Check out this map. http://www.sno-streakers.com/mapsouth.html Off trail 9&15 on Paugus Bay, you will see Wool's trail and how to get to the prison loop. It is towards Winnisquam.

Old Hubbard Rd · 02-02-2008, 07:49 AM

2-1-08 We got about 1-1/2 inches of ice pellets "sugar snow" this afternoon. It was dense, smooth and fast. The last hour of the night switched to heavy rain and seat slushies for all.

Radar looks like more rain

http://www.sno-streakers.com/weather.html

hilltopper · 02-02-2008, 12:11 PM

My brother in law is coming up to try out a new sled. Just took a quick ride down 15 from Keyser Road to Meredith Bay. The trails seem to have held up just fine. Plenty of lube for the liquid-cooled sleds (if my Viper doesn't overheat, nothing liquid cooled will). Meredith Bay was definitely slushly. Wanted to take the lake to Saunders Bay to secure a bobhouse but we will probably end up taking the tracks south to get to Gilford Beach. If we can just get through the next five days, all is good.

01-28-2008, 03:15 PM	#3
boat_guy64 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Windham and Meredith Posts: 226 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 33 Thanked 90 Times in 43 Posts	Trails are great This weekend, I rode the prison loop, south downs and up to Plymouth. A few minor detours north of Ashland but they are all well marked as easy to get around. Trails are awesome. I'm new to riding here and I can't believe how much fun it is. Thanks to all the groomers and the volunteers that worked so hard to make this a really fun place to ride. Pray for more snow and cool daytime temps. I'd like to have these conditions for a couple more months. (Then it should go immediately to 80 so we can get out the boats)

01-29-2008, 07:53 AM	#5
Old Hubbard Rd Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 462 Thanks: 141 Thanked 54 Times in 33 Posts	Message from Ben @ www.Sno-Streakers.com Update on volunteers at Sno-Streakers: Just so you know Sue is a member who volunteered to mail out the membership cards and I built the web site and do trail work but neither of us are in charge or heads of anything at Sno-Streakers. The president is Todd Andrews, the trail master is Hank Denison, the treasurer is Gus Jenkins, and I think the secretary is Patty Denison. Could you reference "Sno-Streakers Trail Report" when you quote (copy/paste) directly from the site. Maybe that will direct some traffic back to our site so people can use the map features etc. I currently field on average about five E-Mails directly from sno-streakers.com a day during riding season and more before big weekends. Recently I have received many about the ice. Telling people the ice is safe (which I never do) is tricky business - there are drastic differences from lake to lake and around springs and inlets . I do not have much computer time at work so I do most of this at night after work Thanks, Ben

01-30-2008, 10:27 AM	#9
Zee Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Union Wharf, Tuftonboro Posts: 173 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 1 Post	Prison Loop? Boatguy64, could you tell me about the prison loop? Trail numbers if possible.

01-31-2008, 10:49 PM	#11
Old Hubbard Rd Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 462 Thanks: 141 Thanked 54 Times in 33 Posts	1/30/08 Update from Sno-Streakers.com 1-30-08 Wednesday - Rain and warm temps. The trails were soft so I stayed off them but from my truck it looked like the trails held up well with rails showing, a little, near road intersections. Cold temps. tonight and the possibility of snow and ice pellets on Friday -lets hope for the best. Check out our weather page: http://www.sno-streakers.com/weather.html

02-01-2008, 12:30 AM	#12
boat_guy64 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Windham and Meredith Posts: 226 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 33 Thanked 90 Times in 43 Posts	prison loop Zee, Check out this map. http://www.sno-streakers.com/mapsouth.html Off trail 9&15 on Paugus Bay, you will see Wool's trail and how to get to the prison loop. It is towards Winnisquam.

01-28-2008, 04:48 PM	#4
murph Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Westford/Meredith Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Can anyone give me information about the ice around Center Harbor, Levitt PArk area? planning on going up this weekend for a ride. Also wondering how the trails to North Conway are, and/or the laconia area trails.

01-29-2008, 01:53 PM	#8
donmac Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 47 Thanks: 17 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts	I did about 50 miles this morning from Winona, to 104, down to Winnisquam, then across to New Hampton - most the trails are in good shape. The trail from Meredith to Waukewan was pretty (very) rough the other day. I agree with comments that the trails from Little Squam, to White Oak, to Meredith are often not up to par with other local trails. A new landowner on Hawkins Pond has blocked local riders with the connection from Hawkins Pond to the primary trail on East Holderness Rd - I feel sorry for the kids in the area.

01-29-2008, 11:53 AM	#10
SAMIAM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 2,937 Thanks: 349 Thanked 1,708 Times in 602 Posts	We hit the Rumney/Baker River trails on monday and the riding was just great. Most trails had been grromed all night on sunday and we were the first ones on some of them.Could have sipped a glass of wine at 30mph.Nice,too,that they groom right up to some of the restaurants.

02-02-2008, 07:49 AM	#13
Old Hubbard Rd Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 462 Thanks: 141 Thanked 54 Times in 33 Posts	2/1/2008 Update from Sno-Streakers.com 2-1-08 We got about 1-1/2 inches of ice pellets "sugar snow" this afternoon. It was dense, smooth and fast. The last hour of the night switched to heavy rain and seat slushies for all. Radar looks like more rain http://www.sno-streakers.com/weather.html

02-02-2008, 12:11 PM	#14
hilltopper Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Meredith Posts: 730 Thanks: 25 Thanked 109 Times in 70 Posts	My brother in law is coming up to try out a new sled. Just took a quick ride down 15 from Keyser Road to Meredith Bay. The trails seem to have held up just fine. Plenty of lube for the liquid-cooled sleds (if my Viper doesn't overheat, nothing liquid cooled will). Meredith Bay was definitely slushly. Wanted to take the lake to Saunders Bay to secure a bobhouse but we will probably end up taking the tracks south to get to Gilford Beach. If we can just get through the next five days, all is good.

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