How great would it be to have your own cross country ski or fat bike trail?
How great would it be to say, "I'm going to go ski my trail". "I'm going to go ride my trail".
How great would it be to call up your friends and say, "let's go ski my trail", "want to go ride my trail?".
Coaches, how great would it be to have the team ski right out the school door and around the athletic fields?
Homeowners Associations / HOAs how about turning that neighborhood trail into a ski or fat-bike trail?
Recreation departments and PE teachers, want to hold a 'learn to ski' class and groom a teaching area?
Parents, how great would it be to have the kids skiing their own backyard trail?
Citizen racers, how cool would it be to train on your own xc ski trail at that neighborhood park?
How cool.? Almost decadent cool.
And what will you call that trail?
My Trail.
Who hasn't dreamed of having a snow-packed trail right out the back door, or at that park just down the street, or at the trails only you and your group know about?
OK, so you don't have 50 or 30 or 15 km. Guess what, that's great. It means you don't need a Pisten Bully, YTS, or Tidd-Tech. You are not a commercial ski area, you are not charging anyone for trail passes, you are not spending 1/2 or more of your day grooming snow. You just want to groom a few kilometers out back so you can ski or ride more.
You could try to make a homemade groomer. You could tie a rope around that old tire that used to be a swing. Nevermind that rubber tires are supposed to have traction in the snow, not glide over it, and that means you'll work even harder to pull that weight down the trail. Or maybe you could use some leftover wood from that project last summer. Will the mound of snow just keep sticking to it as you drag it?. Or what about that plastic that came with that thing your wife bought, how does that work in the cold? Will it crack and break in the cold, leaving me in the cold woods with a bunch of weights sunken deep into the snow?
And what should this homemade groomer look like? Packing snow looks pretty easy. But how do you design the groomer so it packs the trail hard enough without having to stomp on every inch of trail and without having to drag hundreds of pounds of weight? How do you pack a reasonable trail for skiing or riding without an expensive machine or a lot of trial and error? You really do not want to end up a half mile or more from your car, exhausted and frustrated, sweaty and cold, with a groomer broken in pieces and all your barbell weights hiding somewhere, buried in the snow until spring.
What is the science behind packing snow?
How do you engineer a device to do so as easily as possible? So you have to pull the least amount of weight to get a decent trail?
What is the best material for sliding over snow? A material that won't stick, crack, break, or rot?
What are the dimensions, angles, and thicknesses that will make the best groomer?
My Trail Groomer was engineered by a biomechanist/skier/Nordic center owner with 30+ years of product development for sports, consumers, and the military. The groomer was developed using material science, physics, and experience. Lessons were learned from guys who have spent decades making their living grooming snow and from analyzing proven commercial snow grooming machines.
Originally the groomer was just a pet project for the biomechanist so he could ski close to home. All he wanted was a 1 km loop he could skate on to train for the Birkie. After 2 winters of experimenting, testing, and redesigning an out of state visitor happened upon the test trail, skied it, and asked if he could buy a groomer. That was 2009. As skiers found out about the skate lane groomer they asked for a classic groomer too. In 2012 a guy from South Dakota asked if a groomer could be modified to pack a Fat Bike trail. And after years of people asking, in 2016 an attachment was developed so that the groomer could be pulled by a snowmobile or UTV. What had been call Human Powered Trail Grooming is now My Trail Groomer.
Since 2009 over 600 trail groomers have been sold to skiers, fat bikers, town recreation departments, neighborhood HOAs, ski team coaches and phys ed teachers.
600 skiers and fat bikers talking about 'My Trail'.
How great would it be to say, "I'm going to go ski my trail". "I'm going to go ride my trail".
How great would it be to call up your friends and say, "let's go ski my trail", "want to go ride my trail?".
Coaches, how great would it be to have the team ski right out the school door and around the athletic fields?
Homeowners Associations / HOAs how about turning that neighborhood trail into a ski or fat-bike trail?
Recreation departments and PE teachers, want to hold a 'learn to ski' class and groom a teaching area?
Parents, how great would it be to have the kids skiing their own backyard trail?
Citizen racers, how cool would it be to train on your own xc ski trail at that neighborhood park?
How cool.? Almost decadent cool.
And what will you call that trail?
My Trail.
Who hasn't dreamed of having a snow-packed trail right out the back door, or at that park just down the street, or at the trails only you and your group know about?
OK, so you don't have 50 or 30 or 15 km. Guess what, that's great. It means you don't need a Pisten Bully, YTS, or Tidd-Tech. You are not a commercial ski area, you are not charging anyone for trail passes, you are not spending 1/2 or more of your day grooming snow. You just want to groom a few kilometers out back so you can ski or ride more.
You could try to make a homemade groomer. You could tie a rope around that old tire that used to be a swing. Nevermind that rubber tires are supposed to have traction in the snow, not glide over it, and that means you'll work even harder to pull that weight down the trail. Or maybe you could use some leftover wood from that project last summer. Will the mound of snow just keep sticking to it as you drag it?. Or what about that plastic that came with that thing your wife bought, how does that work in the cold? Will it crack and break in the cold, leaving me in the cold woods with a bunch of weights sunken deep into the snow?
And what should this homemade groomer look like? Packing snow looks pretty easy. But how do you design the groomer so it packs the trail hard enough without having to stomp on every inch of trail and without having to drag hundreds of pounds of weight? How do you pack a reasonable trail for skiing or riding without an expensive machine or a lot of trial and error? You really do not want to end up a half mile or more from your car, exhausted and frustrated, sweaty and cold, with a groomer broken in pieces and all your barbell weights hiding somewhere, buried in the snow until spring.
What is the science behind packing snow?
How do you engineer a device to do so as easily as possible? So you have to pull the least amount of weight to get a decent trail?
What is the best material for sliding over snow? A material that won't stick, crack, break, or rot?
What are the dimensions, angles, and thicknesses that will make the best groomer?
My Trail Groomer was engineered by a biomechanist/skier/Nordic center owner with 30+ years of product development for sports, consumers, and the military. The groomer was developed using material science, physics, and experience. Lessons were learned from guys who have spent decades making their living grooming snow and from analyzing proven commercial snow grooming machines.
Originally the groomer was just a pet project for the biomechanist so he could ski close to home. All he wanted was a 1 km loop he could skate on to train for the Birkie. After 2 winters of experimenting, testing, and redesigning an out of state visitor happened upon the test trail, skied it, and asked if he could buy a groomer. That was 2009. As skiers found out about the skate lane groomer they asked for a classic groomer too. In 2012 a guy from South Dakota asked if a groomer could be modified to pack a Fat Bike trail. And after years of people asking, in 2016 an attachment was developed so that the groomer could be pulled by a snowmobile or UTV. What had been call Human Powered Trail Grooming is now My Trail Groomer.
Since 2009 over 600 trail groomers have been sold to skiers, fat bikers, town recreation departments, neighborhood HOAs, ski team coaches and phys ed teachers.
600 skiers and fat bikers talking about 'My Trail'.
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