Trail Conditions
Standing Eight Count: Holiday Weekend Update 1/13/17
Update 1/18/17: Indian Lake to Speculator/Wells area along the Route 30 corridor and points east picked up one to one-and-a-half inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain mix. Back into the western Adirondacks, like Inlet, Old Forge, etc there was much more freezing rain with little snow to show for it. At least for my […]
Yes! Snowmobile ride to Speculator 1/11/17
My ride to Speculator happened Wednesday. I know that today’s thaw will change the conditions, but the snowmobile ride has a story worth telling and might provide a sort of “base line” for what conditions could be like over the holiday weekend. So, here it goes! We got 3 almost inches of snow/sleet mash Tuesday […]
Ride to Newcomb and toward Long Lake: Update 1/5/17
Update 1/6/17: My ride was good enough to try again after work. Trail S84/Blue Mountain trail was even better than yesterday. Indian Lake Parks and Rec filled many of the remaining water holes up and groomed snow over them. But there are a few nasty ones that need some care to get through about a […]
Ride to Inlet & Raquette Lake: Update 1/2/2017
1/4/2017 AM Damage report: All things considering, not terrible. We did get nearly a half-inch of rain, but with temperatures in the lower to middle 30s throughout Tuesday’s event we didn’t lose much snow. Then we got between a half-inch and an inch of wet snow late Tuesday night. Conditions are very soggy at present, […]
Got it! Indian Lake Update 12/29/16
Thursday brought the goods with over a half-foot of fresh snow. I felt like a kid just watching it come down but also like a caged animal. After work, I got my sled out of the yard for the first time this year. Seems strange that I wouldn’t have ridden yet. But I usually don’t […]
