Trail Conditions
Opening Day Scoop: Update 12/6/19
12/8/19 Update: Snow cover throughout the central Adirondacks in generally around a foot or less in most places. Monday and Tuesday will take a dent out of that, with the leftovers being frozen in place by Wednesday. Generally speaking, avoid trails that are not seasonal roads and let the snowmobile clubs and town crews clean […]
Call for help!
A picture is worth a thousand words, eh? The Halloween storm dumped 4-5 inches of rain over the southern and central Adirondacks, severely washing out numerous roads and snowmobile trails. Powerful winds in the storm’s wake uprooted large trees or split them in two. Needless to say, our snowmobile trail systems are a mess now. […]
Going, going… Update 4/11/19
For a while in early April, it seemed like winter’s corpse would never go away. But, of course, the strengthening spring sun always wins in the end. And when it does, that snow goes away quickly!! Remnant snow pack ranges from several inches to a foot or two in the shady woods around Indian Lake […]
Ain’t over until it’s…. Update 4/5/19
With the cold (for April) weather we’ve had here the past several days, snow pack has only been slowly whittled away from roadsides, buildings, southerly exposures and trees. In the woods, there is still 1-2+ feet of snow off-trail. I can tell you that places like Powley Road, Perkins Clearing and Speculator Tree Farm are […]
No April Fool! 4/1/19 Perkins Clearing Ride
Sunday night’s fresh inch of snow inspired me to take a Perkins Clearing rip, just to say I rode in April. So, I trucked my sled down to Mason Lake parking lot and started from there. I gotta say that if we had gotten several inches of snow, I would have been seriously tempted to do […]
