2016
Wait! Snowmobiling Season Not Underway Yet: Update 11/21/16
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 […]
Winter 2016-17 Outlook
With all of these predictions for “La Niña Super Cold and Snowy Winters” people are starting to ask me what I think this winter might bring. It’s a bit amusing because my Winter Outlook 2015-16 was just about as wrong as it could be. I think the only thing I got right was that winter would be […]
Need help for Boreas Ponds Classification!
Hello..You haven’t heard from me in a while! After last year’s pathetic excuse for a winter, I’m content to wash the stink off and reboot for this winter. Onto the important stuff: The Boreas Ponds is another tract that New York State will classify soon. If given the Wild Forest Classification, the Boreas Ponds tract […]
Game Over…
The Fat Ole’ Lady is singing loud and clear! Temperatures well into the 60s Wednesday afternoon sent snowmelt into hyper-drive. Update 3/10/16: NYS DEC has closed all snowmobile trails and seasonal access roads on Forest Preserve, State Forest and Conservation Easement Lands in the Adirondacks. Towns of Webb & Inlet have closed their snowmobile trail […]
End of the Road: Update 3/2/16
We got an inch of snow/sleet Tuesday night. Then temperatures shot up to the middle-30s with a quarter-inch of rain. Shortly after sunrise, the temperature took a nose dive into the teens. Some decent snow showers blew through, but didn’t leave anything of significance. Lakes are glare ice and any left-over trail base is hard […]