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This is from the May 15'th Arctic Cat report on 2012 results. After the release of this report the stock dumped by 20% because Arctic Cat management is looking for flat earnings in 2013.
This is the section that describes 2012 snowmobile sales. The full story is here:http://seekingalpha....rce=marketwatch

Snowmobile sales were up 38%, driven primarily by increased volume and, to a lesser degree, pricing and product mix. During the year, we launched 23 new ProCross and ProClimb models, which allowed us to win Snowmobile of the Year from Snow Goer and Sledhead 24-7. Additionally, we had five of the top 10 selling models during the year.
We did experience poor snow conditions in parts of North America during the fourth quarter, which impacted North American retail sales for the snowmobile industry and resulted in overall industry retail sales decreasing by 4% for the year. However, with the 23 new snowmobile models we launched during the year, we were able to increase our year-over-year North American retail sales slightly. We also experienced strong sales in our international markets.
The one area negatively impacted due to the snow conditions, was our North American dealer inventory, where we did see a 4% increase in year-over-year inventory, as retail sales were not as strong as expected in the fourth quarter. The entire increase in inventory was in the U.S. market, as our Canadian dealers did see a year-over-year decrease in their inventory.
As we look forward to next year, we believe snowmobile industry retail sales will grow between 0% and 2%. The expected increase in industry retail sales and the launch of five new snowmobile models that were launched at our Dealer Show in March, combined with 23 new models we launched this year, we would expect to take additional market share during the upcoming year.

Okay, the NWS has a Winter Storm Watch out for southern NH with 6"-10" of snow predicted between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening. If that happens, what happens to the trails in southern NH? For most clubs south of Ossipee the ground is now bare and the trails are closed; would 10" of snow open some of those trails, or has the season ended? I'm interested to know how southern clubs will/would handle a very late-starting season.

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I don't think they'll be taking orders anytime soon, but it wouldn't hurt to send them a large check as a deposit.

Not sure whether this should go in the Lakes Region or the White Mountain forums, so I put it here.

Would like to park and ride out of White Lake State Park, heading northeast towards Wonalancet. Let me be more accurate, riding from WLSP towards decent snow and trails. The OVSC web site says that the Bowles trail between Wonalancet and WLSP was groomed as of 2/3/2012; has anyone ridden this trail recently?

This is probably old news to a lot of you, but for those not familiar with Coos County riding it might be interesting. Northern Coos gets a lot of snow in normal winters, but a significant amount of that snow isn't from the type of storm the southern part of the state sees. It tends to accumulate from a steady daily drop of a few inches, and that is probably due to something called upslope snowfall. It's caused when a moving air mass is forced to rise due to mountains or ridges. Typically it will be a northwest wind forcing moist air from Quebec over the northern Coos mountains where they dump their moisture as snow. At least that happens in a normal winter.

The three attached PDF files show snowfall distribution in a light, moderate, and heavy upslope snowfall event. I downloaded them from the NOAA NWS site. They seem pretty accurate, except for placing Twin Mountain up beside Errol.

Full story is here: http://www.erh.noaa....a/ta2009-03.pdf