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The Mid-Winter Thaw

January 17, 2021 By Chris Norfolk

In the Maritimes we get a few mid-winter thaws each year. Today is the first. These are killers when it comes to winterbike trails. The rain last night saturated the trail surface and the mild weather today has lots of trail users thinking about getting out.

Don’t do it!

  • Not nice.
  • Not nice at all!

In warm and wet conditions it doesn’t matter how wide your tires are or how ridiculously low you can drop the air pressure – the trails are just too sensitive. Today is one of those days we should be thinking about what else we can do.

Ruts and footprints put into the trails today will freeze with the rapidly falling temperatures tonight and will be there until we get a big snowfall – and that’s not in the 14-day forecast – we checked!

Please wait until temperatures are well below freezing before you head out for a ride. It only takes a single person to leave an impact over an entire trail system. We’d even be cautious about well-intentioned snowshoe grooming efforts today while the snow is soaking wet.

For more info – here’s a helpful article.

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