{"id":279,"date":"2012-02-06T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-02-09T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:30:45","slug":"snowmobile-trail-conditions-watersmeet-mi-greenland-mi-kenton-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/snowmobile-trail-conditions-watersmeet-mi-greenland-mi-kenton-mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmobile Trail Conditions Watersmeet, MI Greenland, MI Kenton, MI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a special day. Last week I got in touch with Nick Keller from <a title=\"Snowball Cancer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowballcancer.org\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.snowballcancer.org']);\" target=\"_blank\">www.snowballcancer.org<\/a> and set up a day to ride with him.\u00a0 Nick is the &#8220;iron man&#8221; of snowmobiling.\u00a0 In the last 2.5 seasons he has ridden 51,000+ miles on the same sled.\u00a0 (that&#8217;s NOT a typo, 51,000+)\u00a0 He is doing it all for the foundation he started with his family to raise money for cancer awareness.\u00a0 We met up in Marenisco around 10am and immediately hit the trail.\u00a0 We rode trail 2 east to Watersmeet and then gassed up.\u00a0 Then we headed north with our sights set on Greenland.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3xGyU2Gk5s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a short stop at Pat&#8217;s Yamaha and a quick bite to eat we were back on the trail.\u00a0 We did a loop that started on trail 13 and then made our way back home.\u00a0 It was pretty neat to see all of the excitement everywhere we stopped.\u00a0 No matter if we were at the dealer or at the gas station someone was always coming up asking about the sled &#8220;Mary Jane&#8221; or why Nick does what he does.\u00a0 We met a lot of really great people and learned a lot about them.\u00a0 For the last few days a lot of people had been complaining how bad the trails are.\u00a0 We put on 315 miles today and it was pretty decent.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t the best conditions I&#8217;ve seen, but definitely not the worst either!\u00a0 If you would like to donate to Nick&#8217;s cause, please visit his website here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Donate to Snowball Cancer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowballcancer.org\/\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.snowballcancer.org']);\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.snowballcancer.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall Trail Rating: 7 out of 10<br \/>\nDistance: 315<br \/>\nPrevious: 972<br \/>\nSeason Total: 1,287<\/p>\n<p>Check us out on Facebook:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SnowSnakescom\/175179815834100\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.facebook.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SnowSnakescom\/175179815834100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch our trail videos on Youtube:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/snowsnakesdotcom\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.youtube.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/snowsnakesdotcom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our live trail reports on Twitter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/snowsnakestrail\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/snowsnakestrail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a special day. Last week I got in touch with Nick Keller from www.snowballcancer.org and set up a day to ride with him.\u00a0 Nick is the &#8220;iron man&#8221; of snowmobiling.\u00a0 In the last 2.5 seasons he has ridden 51,000+ miles on the same sled.\u00a0 (that&#8217;s NOT a typo, 51,000+)\u00a0 He is doing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snowsnakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}