Our early season snowstorm is winding down, with pretty much the results I had expected. Indian Lake got about 6-8 inches of snow. Amounts increased to a foot or more across Moose River Plains into the Western Adirondacks, thence upwards of 18 to 2+ feet in the northwestern Adirondacks.
This modeled snow depth chart isn’t perfect, but it does show the distribution reasonably well:
All that white gold is nice to see, but keep in mind that temperatures were in the 60s for two days before we got the snow Sunday and Monday. There is plenty of slush and mud under that new snow.
ALL SNOWMOBILE TRAILS ARE CLOSED!
Snowmobiling season does not start until after sundown Sunday, December 4 at the conclusion of big game hunting season for Hamilton and Northern Herkimer counties. Late bow hunting season or late bow hunting seasons does not apply to ilsnow land.
In general, snowmobiling season does not start until sundown Tuesday, December 20 in the Southern Zone.
You can click the map to get more details on when hunting season closes for your area of interest:
For certainty and piece of mind, contact your local snowmobile club to find out when their trails open.
Let the hunters have their season and keep the landowners happy with us. Riding snowmobile trails before open disrespects the landowner and could make him angry enough to permanently close his property to snowmobiling!
If you want to rip off a lawn jockey ride on your own land, or you have a buddy that will let you have a little fun on his property…that’s OK. But stay off the snowmobile trails for now.
I know it has been a very long off-season, but let’s be patient for a few more weeks…no matter how much snow we may get.
For the ilsnow nation,
Darrin
