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Why are there so many Michigan snowmobile Fatalities?
 

Michigan Upper Peninsula Snowmobile TrailsSnowmobiling is a sport... it's a down right deadly sport... if you make it that way.  But why is it, there are so many snowmobile fatalities? Some are alcohol related, some are speed related and some are caused by riders who are totally unfamiliar with the area they're riding in.  What can be done to curb the number of snowmobile deaths each and every season?

 

This Michigan snowmobile season for example, snowmobiling really didn't get off and running until after January 15th.  Yet, already seven snowmobile fatalities have occurred in Michigan's Upper Peninsula so far. The season isn't over.

One thing we know for sure, the less snow we acquire the less accidents occur.  Where the snow falls in the U.P. is important.  I call it snowfall accommodating.

Ordinarily during winter, the U.P. is sprawling with adequate snow fall; from north to south and from east to west.  In a typical season, thousands upon thousands of snowmobilers share a wealth of trails, linking one community to another through an elaborate network of snowmobile travel.

Disconnect any one of those links by the lack of significant snowfall to an area and you have limited trail distances.  In short, the snowfall short-fall confines a large snowmobile population to a snow-rich area, and thus the more traffic and activity levels to it.  Throughout that activity you'll find a higher degree or percentage of riders funneled in to it. The good, bad and the ugly all confined to a limited degree of travel.

Snowmobiling to most all snowmobilers is about traveling through the winter out of doors; the independence, the solitude, freedom to explore and most of all, a winter outdoor travel vacation from mass confusion. 

Add a few thousand snowmobilers (good, bad and ugly) to a confined area, and pretty soon you discover you haven't escaped anything, but rather joined another mass confusion Mecca.

Snowmobiling isn't fun at all when you're traveling a straight, groomed trail at 50 mph and your day is filled with sleds passing you by at 100 mph or more.  Snowmobiling isn't any fun when you round a hair-pin corner and find yourself nearly side-swiped by a trail hog several times out the day. 

If snowmobile trails were spanned out further and having adequate snowfall, trail tension would be reduced considerably.  But not so when confined to limited areas of travel.

I've lived here in the U.P. going on 16 years.  Before 1991 I never sat on a snowmombile.  I like to believe I saw the best of times.  These days here in the U.P. without adequate trail distance, I keep mine.

I totally refuse to travel on weekends, I've put my life in jeopardy a few time doing so. Not any more.  Travel at night?  Not anymore as well.  Trailer in my sled to snow filled areas?  No longer.  If I can't leave my residence and hit the trails to a decent trail network, I don't go.

A whole lot of factors can be described why there are so many snowmobile related fatalities.  Herding a large population of snowmobile machines to confined areas certainly adds to the equation. Keeping your distance from limited trail distances will certainly keep you out of the headlights of a possible snowmobile trail statistic. A shortened snowmobile season due to a lack of snowfall should result in LESS snowmobile related fatalities... one would think.

 


Keep in mind... speed and alcohol take lives.

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