Axes & Irons

Trail Conditions

Get it while we got it! Ride 3/21/18

Wednesday started cloudy and cold with the Parks and Recs groomers making their rounds. Snow cover in the exposed roadside areas in town was 6 inches or less with bald spots growing. But snow pack “in the woods” was still upwards of 1-2+ feet. Indian Lake village trails were snirty with some dirty corners, but […]

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March Madness! Ride 3/19/18

With an unexpected day off Monday and a beautiful March day underway, I wanted to get a ride in. Usually I don’t bother riding Mondays because the trails are thrashed from the weekend. So, I didn’t start first thing…but waited until mid-late morning to give the groomers a head start. I know that Newcomb trail […]

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Mega Miler to Brantingham and Back! Ride 3/14/18

Got a text from Crazy Cal Wednesday morning just as I woke up. He had gotten a last minute reprieve from yet another brutal long distance commute to work in a snow storm and wanted to ride to Old Forge Game on! I was planning on doing that ride anyway. šŸ™‚ Cal also snagged another […]

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Yes!! Update 3/13/18

Well, I heard reports varying from awesome for awful to describe the trails at different places and times last weekend. Yeah…it was a BUSY weekend between Old Forge Snowfest and crowds of people up here looking for their first real ride in weeks. A fresh 4+ inches of snow on Tuesday gave the groomers plenty […]

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Fun times in Oneida County! Ride 3/9/18

A couple friends of mine from down Oneida County way wanted to come up and run ilsnow land this week. But my misadventure on Indian LakeĀ turned them off to that, because they love ilsnow land for…running lakes. So, we flipped the script and and I met them atĀ Barneveld Friday morning. Here was my ride starting […]

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