Comfortable Cabins for Four Seasons of Fun
The last week in January left us with less snow but we have gotten bitter cold and windy days and the next week is supposed to be more temperate but beautiful none the less. I had a conversation with one of the groomer operators and he told me that he was surprised by how little the warm spell and the rain, that we recently received, had effected the snowmobile trails. Dan considered the riding to be still good in most of the trail system to the north of Pike Pond Cabins.
Groveton is having their Forth Annual Snow Cross event on February 20 with several local events during that weekend so that should be a very good time to visit our area.
Colebrook is hosting another round of the Vintage Snowmobile Races on February 6, 2010 at Northern Tire and that should be fun for the whole family. It sure seems funny to see the older style of Snowmobiles with their suspensions of the day running with small single and and twin cylinder engines. Boy have the technologies changed!
We are in the process of putting some packages together for our new guests and will make those available within the next few weeks.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding snow conditions or upcoming events.
Wayne
tel 603 449 2683
We have had several guests and neighbors tell us that the Snowmobiling was really good in our area. The trails have been groomed and with the exception of the usual roughness that exists on the weekends they have been in the best shape of the season. The exceptions are State 110 in Colebrook area that could use a lot more snow and a portion of State 19 between the junctions of state117 and state 28 where the groomers are having a hard time freezing a particularly tough area so they have put in an alternate route for 19 for a ways.
Our guests have snowmobiled to the Dixville Notch and Magalloway area, the Success and Cambridge area East of the Androscoggin and all through Nash Stream and Dummer Pond areas and have found plenty of snow and good riding. We have had the most activity of the season at our cabin, “pikepondcabins.com”, and we are thankful for the business.
Our guests have traveled to Berlin and Gorham to eat and while the restaurants weren’t really busy during the week the food and service was reported to be good. We have a new restaurant that is recently opened in Groveton that will help those looking for eating places near by with all reports that the food and service is good. This new restaurant is accessible by snowmobile from State 5 South.
We have had a good week working on our neighbors and guests equipment and will continue to offer minor repairs to our friends and guests who might need some repairs to their trailers or sleds. We found and replaced a trailer tire that was about to fail for our guests this week and that was all done so that they didn’t lose a minute of trailtime and I serviced a neighbors sleds for him so that when he arrived on Friday night he was all set to go riding on Saturday AM. I think that this kind of service will catch on with the people who visit our area and will help us with our cabin rental business.
We offer trail parking to our guests and neighbors so if you would like to know what we can offer please give me a call and I will explain what we can do to make your stay more convenient.
We had our first vintage snowmobile races of 2010 in Pittsburg NH and by all reports it was a big success if you are interested in more information please give a call and we can put you in touch with someone who can give you more information.
We are expecting some more snow this Sunday evening into Monday morning so give us a call and come up and enjoy snowmobiling with great snow conditions.
Ride safely and we’ll see you soon.
Wayne
Tel 603 449 2683
Happy New Year to all!
We are in the first week of January”"2010″” and it seems like the winter is going fast. We had our first big snow of the new year which amounted to 16″ more or less. It was a light snow but welcomed none the less. We already had all of our snowmobile trails frozen and had received about a foot of snow before Christmas so this new snow helped to fill in the voids and after a couple of groomings the trails are good in our area. there are locations near here where they didn’t receive as much snow and that had less snow to start where the conditions are marginal but we have had some neighbors staying in a cabin near us who have traveled over five hundred miles in the last week and were going out again this morning. They told me that Nash Stream is in good shape and that Phillips Brook was also good riding. These fellows had been to the Balsams from Pike Pond in Stark NH, and they said their trip went well. We need more snow to get to the excellent riding that we often have this time of year but overall the riding is good. We will let everyone know when we get that extra snow.
If any of you are interested in a good weather site to look at the forecast for this area I have found the enclosed site to be very good at predicting what we have coming and it follows:
Groveton, NH weather, powered by WeatherBug
We are using our Web Reserve system to make reservations for our cabin rental which can be accessed through our web site at Pikepondcabins.com and with the inclusion of Paypal to that system you can choose your dates and make the deposits from your home and it lets us know who is coming and when you will stay. We are always available to receive your phone calls and will gladly answer any questions that you have.
I will keep everyone posted as to the snow conditions.
Wayne
I would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of the people who have stayed with us during 2009 and wish you all a very prosperous new year.
We had a little rain over the last several days and thaty has reduced our snow cover by about half of its original amount leaving us with about five to six inches but today we are supposed to get four to six inches of new snow and some more is coming later in the week so we should have ample snow for snowmobiling by the end of this week. We have had some very cold weather that froze everything solid during the previous three weeks and the snowmobile trails have been groomed and packed so this new snow will be welcomed and should give us some good conditions for the first time this year.
There are signs of the Moose yarding up in their traditional Wintering areas so if you travel into our area be aware if you see moose tracks near the road that you are traveling, “Slow Down” because we are seeing moose again near our roads and the areas that they travel are the areas that you often see them and frequently result in collisions with vehicles.
We have had several of our customers that have reserved their Winter vacations and they seem to find our new reservation system that is available on our web site to be easy to use so any of you that are looking to see availability can look on line or call us and we will be glad to help you.
I will keep updating Waynes Corner as we see changes in our area and would like to receive feedback from those that read this page as to ways that I can make it better and more helpful.
Happy New Year to all!
Wayne
We are in that time of the year that the weather becomes unpredictable. We have had our first snowfall and we have accumulated quantities of snow in many of the higher elevations nearby. The accumulated snow will surely make the last week of deer hunting more successful for some hunters.
Pike Pond still has open water over most of its area and I think that that is a little late. In late November and early December we almost always have the Pond completely frozen over but maybe we need the extra time this year to finish all of our projects.
We had a party that successfully took a Moose from our cabins this year and we hope that this will be the first of many hunters that will be successful hunting from our cabin.
Last weekend I took a course that was offered by the State of NH that was given for those people who run the Groveton Trailblazers groomers by which all of the snowmobile trails in the area are maintained. The course promoted safe operation and helped us all be more aware of the methods that can be used to produce better trails throughout our area. The daylong seminar makes us all aware of the responsibilities of operating large pieces of equipment in and around snowmobilers that are recreating in our area. The responsibilities are great for all of us who use the trails to make sure that everyone returns to their homes and families safely.
We will try to keep everyone posted on the conditions of the trails in the area as they develop so stay tuned to this site for more information.
This is the first attempt at trying this new page on our web site so please send any comments that you might have to us at “Pikepondcabins@gmail.com” and we will try to incorporate any positive ideas that you might have.
Thanks!
Wayne