{"id":3192,"date":"2011-01-29T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2011-01-29T22:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:58:32","slug":"stony-creeks-sno-master-72-and-trakors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/stony-creeks-sno-master-72-and-trakors\/","title":{"rendered":"Stony Creek&#8217;s SNO-MASTER 72 and TRAKORs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/P1291233.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96258-2\/P1291233.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"The Snow Groomers setup (two Trakors and a Sno-Master 72) used by Stony Creek to groom the cross country ski trails.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the grooming equipment that the park system pulls behind a snowmobile to groom the trails. This setup, two TRAKOR groomers set behind a SNO-MASTER 72, is made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowgroomers.net\/htm\/classic.htm\">Snow Groomers<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbor_Springs,_Michigan\">Harbor Springs, MI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With around four new inches of snow here and some time this afternoon I decided to go cross country skiing at Stony Creek. This was a really good day for it, as the trails were freshly groomed, with tracks set throughout most of the two track mountain bike trail system, even beyond the signs that read <i>Not A Ski Trail<\/i>. I was able to ski for an enjoyable 2.5 hours covering most of the mountain bike trail and the loops in the golf course without backtracking.<\/p>\n<p>Skiing down one rather steep hill<sup>\u2020<\/sup> I screwed up and fell. It could have been bad, but instead I just ended up topping over forward and landing on my knee and shoulder, throwing a spray of snow on my face and head while packing a bit inside of my jacket. I tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowplough_turn\">snowplow<\/a> down a particularly smooth, trackless, steep, but short section of trail and dug one ski in a bit too much, which caused me to flop straight over on to my face. Oops. I really wish someone had seen it, though, because it must have been pretty comical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/P1291230.jpg.html\">Here is another photo taken today<\/a> of my skis in tracks somewhere in the southeast corner of the mountain bike trail area.<\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup> For those of you that know the Stony Creek trail system (<a href=\"http:\/\/mmba.org\/library\/maps\/stonycreek\/stony_creek_mountain_bike_trails.pdf\">map<\/a>) I was skiing down the Woohoo hill from #23 to #22, and fell on the steepest of the three climbs; the middle one. This section is commonly ridden up on a bike after the Roller Coaster when heading to the right and climbing back up to cut through the middle of the park and head towards the trail head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the grooming equipment that the park system pulls behind a snowmobile to groom the trails. This setup, two TRAKOR groomers set behind a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/stony-creeks-sno-master-72-and-trakors\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stony Creek&#8217;s SNO-MASTER 72 and TRAKORs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}