Came home from work with nothing better to do than ride on the fresh foot-plus! 🙂
Indian Lake inner village trails were groomed but getting torn loose by the Friday afternoon traffic. C8 out to Headquarters was groomed, but there were plentiful soft lumps from the traffic. Bear Trap Swamp as a mess in a few places, but the new snow has sopped up most of the moisture. The bumps were cushy, so the riding was mostly fun.
Moose River Plains from Cedar River Headquarters to Silver Run was a roller-rama. Silver Run to the Limekiln Gate was by no means flat, but was better in regards to rollers by a country mile or two. All if it appeared groomed today, but the traffic was churning up the soft powder into bumps.
Inlet loop trails were fantastic riding! They are almost always good. Ole Barn to Gilbert Road had the usual thin spots worn from traffic, but the snow was much more white than brown. After wings at the Screamen Eagle, I headed for home in the dark.
On the way back, much of Moose River Plains seemed pretty bumpy, with the Indian Lake side showing the rollers. C8 back to Indian Lake was loose but didn’t seem much worse than it was in the late afternoon.
42nd and Broadway, Little Canada and Ski Hut were their usual slices of heaven. I always like to hit those to round out my rides. 🙂 Rolled back to the compound with 93 miles, riding in near perfect temperatures in the 20s. I crossed Lake Adirondack without encountering any slush.
Weekend Outlook:
This much new snow does not get assimilated into the base quickly, so the heavy weekend traffic will churn it into bumps. The groomers will have their hands full with damage control all weekend. Temperature will rise above 32*F on Saturday, then it will get much colder for Sunday. That may allow the groomers to set the trails better for Sunday morning than they can for Saturday morning. I think the real prize will be for the people who blow off work and ride midweek after the groomers can piece everything together. 😉
Ride safe out there. Somebody failed to negotiate a corner on C8 heading out to Headquarters, creaming a tree with the sled shedding lots of plastic parts. This wasn’t last weekend’s wreck. I saw the tracks through the fresh powder, into the tree.
