From Jeff Parker, groomer at the Tech trails –
“Clearing of dead falls and trail inspection has begun on Michigan Tech’s single track. While there are still small patches of snow on a few trails today, the forecast looks good for opening of the trails to mountain biking this weekend.
We ask, however, that you stay off the ski trails except for where the single track crosses them. The ski trails hold their snow longer and remain saturated and soft. Bike ruts down (but not across) the ski trails can instigate significant erosion.
We also ask that when you cross the occasional muddy area in the single track please ride through it, not around it, so as not to widen out the trail.
And as we request throughout the biking season, if rain makes the trail saturated again so that you are leaving significant ruts, please go home and come back when they have dried.”