Trail Conditions
Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/22/13
Snow pack is 16-24 inches “in the woods” around Indian Lake and Speculator, with less on southerly exposures and village highway roadsides. The usual “snow-bowls” west of Route 30 hold over 2 feet of snow. The bigger lakes are starting to get snow dunes from the strong winds we had this week, but the snow […]
Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/19/13
I had to run by Speculator today, so I got some “drive-by” stuff for you: Indian Lake and Lewey Lake looked like really nice riding. 2 Miles from Hell was freshly groomed midday: The south end (near Perkins Clearing) was especially nice. The north end (near Lewey Lake) had some spots scuffed down to dirt […]
Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/17/13
As expected, the extremely heavy holiday traffic has taken its toll on the trails. Anything I could see from the road late this afternoon was loaded with small bumps with snirty granular snow. In other words: The snow is tired! While picking up dinner in town, I ran into Charlie Clark and his wife from […]
Indian Lake Ride Report: Update 2/15/13
Rich Lupia @ Upstatesnow.com was my guest of honor today in ilsnow land. He came up here to talk some business with me. Then the plan was to ride down Indian Lake to Perkins Clearing and spin off some fun miles before he had to go home. I gave him the XP to ride and […]
Indian Lake to Brantingham via Old Forge: Ride Report 2/13/13
I blew off work and headed to Old Forge this morning. The Indian Lake village trails were in really nice shape with the inch of fresh snow. C8 out to Cedar River Headquarters was a pretty nice ride most of the way out. There were a couple of icy spots that surprised me since I […]
