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Happy second day of spring! With spring among us, it’s no secret that snow depths are dissipating. Yet, there’s still time to get out. Higher elevation will be able to keep their snow depths a bit longer than those at lower elevations. The Northeast keeps getting hit by nor’easters giving a wintery mix of snowRead More
Winter doesn’t want to give up with another and another nor’easter hitting the Northeast this past week. This is the third nor’easter to storm across the East coast in ten days. The icy conditions created dangerous travel and many areas lost power. Fortunately, in New England, received heavy amounts of snow and will be receivingRead More
And just like that, it’s a wrap on the 2018 USXC cross-country season! It’s crazy to think how fast this season went. You spend all summer preparing and getting ready and it always seems like it flies right by. This weekend we were in Naytahwaush, Minnesota, for the final round and the track was allRead More
Evolutionary changes and a big power grab highlight Polaris for 2019 For model year 2019, Polaris covers the full range of riders from newbie to aggressive veteran, trail shredder to mountain maverick, with a slate of sleds that shows off Polaris engineering, electronic mastery and marketing savvy. There’s a whole new level of performance asRead More
Winter is still going strong for the Northern Midwest. Two significant snow systems pushed through over the week, dumping over 7 inches of snow in some areas over each time in northwestern Minnesota, Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula is reporting a total of more than 10 inches of new snow. The WestRead More
Textron President Scott Donnelly spoke at the first combined dealer meeting since his company acquired Arctic Cat just over a year ago and laid out the best possible message a consumer could hear. “Our company is all about product,” he said. “New products matter. We’ve been in the vehicle business. Arctic Cat is a greatRead More
A good deal for spirited trail riding. You can expect to have a serious choice come April as Ski-Doo, which already announced its next generation 600cc E-TEC twin, most likely will offer it as the sidekick to the 850cc powered MXZ models. As a replacement for the current 600 E-TEC, we expect the new oneRead More
This has been another busy couple of months at the ISMA office. Snow has fallen, and the trails are groomed for great riding. We have taken numerous government officials out snowmobiling – introducing them to our great winter activity… This year we are concentrating on taking Managers of Visitor and Convention Bureaus andRead More
There was some snowfall for the Midwest and the West this past week. Higher elevations in the West received a fair amount of snow while the Midwest also received their share of snow with two significant systems that pushed through. Northeastern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan received a lot of snow. Reports statedRead More
When you’re the clear market share leader for years at a time, it can be a tough task to keep it up. Some companies get complacent. Some get nichy. But Ski-Doo seems to have a knack for looking at what it has done to be successful and ask, “what can we do… better?” Our firstRead More
