Weather Blog
Christmas Eve Massacre
It’s been pretty much status quo since the December 16-17 snow event. Snowpack is holding around 6 inches at Indian Lake and a foot-plus for the Route 8 corridor. The DEC gate to S84/Blue Mountain trail in Indian Lake has been opened and some snowmobilers have ridden in. Since I won’t have any real riding […]
Ride to Newcomb: Update 3/4/20
UPDATE 3/5/20: Indian Lake picked up 2 inches of fresh snow Wednesday night! It was snowing pretty hard at times Wednesday morning, although it was having a hard time sticking with 32+ degree temperatures and the higher sun angle. Gotta admit I wasn’t really amped up to ride. But it’s looking like the end is […]
Lake Durant to Newcomb: Ride 1/23/20
I was on the fence about taking a snowmobile ride today, until I got a text from Crazy Cal saying: Okay, let’s do it! My sled was still loaded onto the ilsnow.com mobile command unit from Wednesday’s ride, so Cal just loaded his sled after he got home from work. We decided to truck the […]
Reversal of fortune: Update 1/12/20
UPDATE 1/19/20: Almost 5 inches of dense powdery snow at the ilsnow.com storm center and still clicking away a bit. Reports of 6 inches and 6.5 inches out of Piseco and Speculator Mountain respectively – so, the really heavy snow never did develop for the southern flank of ilsnow land. But we’ve got some sorely needed points […]
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! […]
