Well, that didn'take long.

RayP(MI) · Jan 1, 2016

Got our first measurable snow earlier this week. Saw a guy on a motor cycle last week. Now it's snowmobiles. Yesterday we went to see our nephew who was seriously injured in a fall, now in a rehab hospital about an hour away. While we were gone, got visited by a couple snowmobilers who thought it would be neat to make some runs up and down my hayfield next to the house. Barely an inch of snow on the level. Left a snowpack that is sure to leave damage to the seeding next year. They passed within 150 feet of the house, which is pretty brazen. Left a complaint with local DNR officer, but don't think anything will come of it. Sure can do a lot of trasspassing real fast at 50+ mph

David G · Jan 1, 2016

I really hate snowmobilers, they have no respect for private property.

rrlund · Jan 1, 2016

I saw a motor cycle go by here this morning. Some of these weekend rebels seem to think they have to ride on New Years day no matter what.

J.Wondergem · Jan 1, 2016

(quoted from post at 14:49:15 01/01/16) I really hate snowmobilers, they have no respect for private property.

All snowmobilers? Really?

RayP(MI) · Jan 1, 2016

Seems like David has it right. There are some who take them up to ride the trails. Rest make their own trails where ever they d___ well please.

Leroy · Jan 1, 2016

How true.

RBoots · Jan 1, 2016

They wouldn't have wanted to do that around here this afternoon. It snowed real hard from about noon-2 o'clock, just enough to make the pavement a skating rink. Probably only an inch or so though.

Ross

RBoots · Jan 1, 2016

I don't mind the guys that stay along the shoulder of the road as they are legally allowed here in Gratiot. It's the guys that decide to detour across our field and behind my shop across the road, the guys riding the river behind my house that decide that my house is far enough away from the river that they can ride across the grass field and through my woods behind my house. Oh, and the guys with the piped, ratty sounding sleds that go by at 2-3 in the morning, that apparently don't have to be at work the next morning.

Ross

ObsoElitist · Jan 1, 2016

I dont understand what the fun is riding in flatlands.this video is me at about 10,000 feet in the Sierras. Those big lumps near where I cant climb anymore are avalanche balls. The slope is about 60 degrees in fresh soft snow. Fun stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IcyN5_DHs

ObsoElitist · Jan 1, 2016

That link may not work, try this one

http://youtu.be/k9IcyN5_DHs

Dave H (MI) · Jan 1, 2016

I had a lot of snowmobile trespass last winter in those deep snows. This year it seems to be poacher/thieves. To me it comes down to a statement that they are somehow above my rights and have no respect for my rights as a landowner who worked hard to get what I have and am entitled to private enjoyment of same. People who pizz away their money and then declare every open field public property really tick me off. Racing by 150 feet from a residence while trespassing is a very aggressive act. Such a person needs to be dealt with.

Donald Lehman · Jan 1, 2016

You may be worrying over nothing. Local snowmobile club runs a trail through my property. They have for years. We also have a steep knarly hill the guys play around on just off the trail. Never seen any damage to speak of to the hay field underneath. What little is done is completely grown over before the first cutting. Young Christmas trees, however can be severely damaged with inadequate snow cover.

oldtanker · Jan 1, 2016

I use to think they were OK but they can be a pain in the backside. If they would stay on the marked trails I'd be OK with them. I have a trail that follows a state highway through my place and they won't stay on the trail and think it's OK to run through my fields.

Friend of mine allow the club here to put in a trail on the edge of a field through his place and told them that if the riders didn't stay on the trail he'd make em take it out. They didn't and he did. After he made them take it out he started getting threats plus his daughter got harassed at school about it by her classmates. Guess we know who wasn't staying on the trails. My sled died a few years ago and I have no desire to repair or replace it. I don't want to be associated with the jerks.

Rick

Dick2 · Jan 1, 2016

Snowmobilers came through brother's yard years ago at 2:00 a.m. after the bars closed. Brother knew who they were, so he went to one of them and told him that anybody who cam through the yard during the night would still be laying in the snow when the sun came up. Hasn't been a snowmobile on his land since that time.

keh · Jan 1, 2016

4 wheelers act like that sometimes in the South.

KEH

Ted in NE-OH · Jan 1, 2016

I live on a road thet is between a train and a bar. Those things are LOUD at 2 AM when I am trying to sleep.

Brian G. NY · Jan 2, 2016

(quoted from post at 00:56:28 01/02/16)
4 wheelers act like that sometimes in the South.

KEH

4-wheelers do that sometimes in the north as well......do a helluva lot more damage to property too!

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