Usually get around 10 solid weeks from my door in eastern Muskoka, Ontario. From around the start of January to mid to late march. last season, first ride was Dec. 26th but then it warmed up and it took a while for the trails to get good (was one of the worst winters in a while in my area). 2018, trails were open before new years and closed near the end of March but I have pictures out on the lake still on April 20 with some fresh snow.

 

Our club averages almost 10 weeks of grooming per year. The season in VT is officially 16 weeks and there are several places that get close to that.

 

NE Ont/W Qc...expect rideable snow in first week or two of Dec, trails open around Christmas. Trails usually close last week of March and rideable snow until about midApril.

 

In New Brunswick, officially, the trails are open from dec 15 to April 14. So that‘s 17 weeks of sledding. Usually, some start riding at the beginning of december and stop at the end of April.

 

Jesus. I need to move to New Brunswick!

Also from Muskoka, but with a trailer...I almost always get out on my parents farm by Collingwood before December to scratch the itch (earliest I've ever done is Nov 18th - Collingwood), am trail riding by new years (earliest is Dec 20 - Haliburton), and ride until mid / late March (latest is April 1st - Cochrane)

 

In a so-so winter, I'd call it 15 weeks. In an epic winter, it's 25 weeks (close to 30 weeks if you count sloppy spring riding).

Winter of 18/19 was one of those 'epic' seasons... 345" fell at my house for the season. Southwest Colorado, at 9000' ASL'

Pic from March 1, 2019....

 

Wow! I wish I lived in some of these areas. Just fantastic time frames. So much better than where we are. Keep the replies coming everyone.

 

15 days if Im lucky LOL

 

Alaska here, the earliest I have ridden was 11 Nov and the latest I have ridden was 10 Jun, but those dates are far from normal. A normal year would be a start date of about 1 Dec to the end of May.

 

Wisconsin, depends on the year... sometimes the trails in central and southern never open. Some years you can ride from IL to the UP.

 

We are riding now. Very good conditions. Usually go to end of March or early April.
So at least 16 weeks if not more for this area.

 

We are riding now. Very good conditions. Usually go to end of March or early April.
So at least 16 weeks if not more for this area.

where is this area you speak of?

 

Have a place in Kalkaska, Mi in the snowbelt, Same riding frame as you. Our trails get beat to crap by 2pm because of all the sleds with low snow in the area. Also Go blue!

 

I hear you on the trails! Between scarce snowfall, or light snowfall, and the volume of weekened riders, they are toast early on weekends.

I rarely even bother with trails on weekends unless I can hit them early. I retired in 2020 so I can now hit them more during week days after a fresh snowfall, so that has been a difference maker for me. On weekends, we might hit trails early, or just hit up HL lake and cruise around on it.

 

Where I live in Vermont, lucky to get 4 weeks, the rest of the trailerable state can see 12 weeks. We go to Quebec alot so that stretches it to 16+ weeks.

 

I am on the east of Algonquin park. Many winters I will get my first ride last week of Nov and my last ride first week of April. But real good riding is christmas until about mid march.

 

Chicago we count the days, not weeks.

 

There are trails in the Chicago area?

 

I'm normally starting early december, the season is normally over sometime around mid- late may..
So approx 6 months or 25 weeks.

 

Not enough

 

Not enough

 

I rode my spyder more the last 2 winters than sled. The 6 inches we got in the last 2 days is more than both Marches 20 and 21 together. I think we were open 18 days last year. So 2-3 weeks lately.

 

I live in Eastern Ontario so around home I would say 10-12 weeks is normal but with trailering about 2.5 hrs North in either Ontario (Deep River) or Quebec (Mont Laurier) we can extend our riding by another 3-4 weeks usually.
Put 4600kms on the 21 XRS last year and my biggest year was 8400 kms.
In a crappy year we only get 8 weeks of riding

 

10 weeks maybe? To be honest I pack it in in early March when the sun starts clobbering stuff. At that point I’m pretty well over snowmobiles and ready for motocross. Come September I’m ready for sleds and patiently await for snow in December / January.
After spending a year down south where you can ride moto all year long, it loses its luster. I’d have to imagine snowmobiling would be the same in that if you could do it year round it wouldn’t be nearly as enjoyable.

 

Rode 13weeks last year, central Ontario .Our winters seem to start later and later every year though . Maybe is all the XPS we burn lol

 

Eastern Ontario here. 20 years ago we could have decent snow by Christmas that stayed until the first of April. The last few years it seems mid January before we get anything worth riding on, then we have a thaw and it all goes away. More snow comes and the pattern repeats itself through February. Rarely ever get any snow in March the last 10 years. So maybe 6-8 weeks riding from home. Other that that we head North.

 

Eastern Ontario here. 20 years ago we could have decent snow by Christmas that stayed until the first of April. The last few years it seems mid January before we get anything worth riding on, then we have a thaw and it all goes away. More snow comes and the pattern repeats itself through February. Rarely ever get any snow in March the last 10 years. So maybe 6-8 weeks riding from home. Other that that we head North.

Little bit further south and it gets worse. Last year was the first time in about 3 years I could ride from home. It was nice to ride to the spot I usually trailer to. But there wasn’t lots of snow, it just stayed and then melted abruptly in early March, the day I bought my sled…….

Typically 8 weeks with a 1.5 hour truck ride to get to snow.


Sent from the Island of Misfit Toys.

 

Reply to MikeOchek: southwest corner of NWT. Approximately 45 kms to the west is the Liard range where we ride a lot is the NWT/Yukon border. To the south of us about 42 kms is the BC/NWT border.
Climate is mild considering how far Noth it is and snowfall pretty reliable.

 

Never enough !!

 

PEI. Depending on the location, somewhere around 8-12 weeks of rideable snow. Although the last few years we have experienced some hard thaws, which take us down to low snow/no snow conditions a couple of times through the season.

When it comes to sledding, New Brunswick is the place to be!