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Feelin’ Long Lakey: Update 2/11/20
We’ve finally got something close to bona-fide mid winter snowpack here in ilsnow land with snow pack ranging from about 8-12 inches in the “thin spots” to upwards of 18-30 inches. Any day I can ride from the compound and forget the trailer is a GREAT DAY! I wasn’t looking for a mega-miler, just looking […]
Ride to Salisbury: Update 2/6/20
UPDATE 2/7/20: Got blitzed with 10 inches of white gold at the ilsnow storm center on Friday! Trails in town are a mess with ice and snow laden trees bending down to the ground. Adirondack Lake has DEEP slush that almost made me regret going out there. C8 out to Cedar River Headquarters was a […]
Shakedown Ride: Update 1/3/20
Whenever Little Canada between One Stop and Lone Birch looks like the above cover pic, you know things just ain’t clicking in town. I had only ridden across the parking lot at the compound this season, not even enough to register 0.1 mile on the odometer. Totally unacceptable for me and things had to change…QUICKLY! […]
The waiting game… Update 12/27/19
The opening picture says a thousand words. 🙁 It the thing all winter lovers dread: snow conditions are lousy and the weather is acting like it has forgotten how to make snow. Even during winters that eventually turn out quite well for us, there have been periods like these. So we just gotta stick-and-jab until […]
Maybe some fun next week, then? Update 12/12/19
Chances are you aren’t riding, so I’ve got quite a bit of reading (and listening) for you! Read all the way through… I was certainly disappointed to see our mini-bounty of white gold from early December go poof in the night. But our previous 6-12 inches of powdery snow cover wasn’t going to stand a […]