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Published: March 1st 2011
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Parkview Gals & Sons
Alyssa and her son, Carson-Shelie and her son, Matthew We awoke in the morning to 40-50 mph winds from the west, 20 degrees and snow. When we went to bed around 11:00, it was still over 40. The trees were swaying 20 feet at their tops. It was 8 AM and we had to pack for our move down the road to Krupp's, what with the Wyandotte having a 9 AM checkout. Kinda early, huh? We thought so, too. By the time we started loading up the truck, a truck and huge 6 place trailer pulled in by our cabin. These guys were ready to move in to our cabin.
So we drove down to Krupp's and our cabin there wasn't ready yet, so we drove over to the Parkview to have breakfast. By now it was snowing hard and the winds were steady at about 35 mph, gusting to over 50 mph. While we were there, Shelie and Alyssa came by with their 2 little sons, Alyssa's Carson and Shelie's Matthew. They are very cute little boys and are great friends already. the girls were taking the boys to the pool for a swim and hot tub. I went in to check on them and they were having
a ball. It's cool to see how these little guys will grow up together and be great friends.
We went back to Krupp's and were able to move into our cabin. We were once again getting a pretty late start. The mission for today was to ride to Houghton so Ed could buy a new Klim balaclava at Houghton Powersports and then decide where to go from there. The wind was still howling and we didn't get 2 miles down the trail when we saw a huge tree down across the trail. Richard Krupp was already there and starting to cut the tree up with a chainsaw. We parked the sleds and started to help him, rolling logs into the woods off the trail after Richard cut them. There were probably 20 sleds stuck on the other side of the tree waiting for us to clear the trail. Riders told us there were at least 2 other trees down across the trail in the 10 miles between here and Toivola, the north end of the section of trail that is maintained by the Superior Club. I've been a member of the club for 3 years now, figuring the annual
Richard Krupp
Godfather of the Bill Nichols Trail! dues I pay help a bit toward the expense of keeping up the trails. Richard Krupp is 72 years old and is probably the hardest working man I've ever met. He grooms a few nights a week and works on the groomers a lot. He's always doing something. This in addition to keeping everything going at his resort. Ed & I had a lot of fun helping clear the trail. Richard then went back for a groomer to push the trees off the trail with the blade on the front of the groomer. He picked up Mike Sabo, the president of the club and brought him with. Mike said that the gusts were measured up to 72 mph by the county highway department. We continued down the trail to the next tree and Richard was able to push that one and the next one off the trail with the groomer. Ed and I got quite a workout rolling logs and throwing branches.
By now it was 4:30 so we hustled up the trail to Houghton to buy the balaclava. On the way back we made our mandatory stop at the Mosquito before we headed back to the cabin for
the evening. It was a very satisfactory day helping the Superior Club keep the trail open.
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Jan
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The price for fun!!
And to think I always thought you were up north riding all day and having loads of fun!!