Weather Blog
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! […]
The waiting game… Update 12/27/19
The opening picture says a thousand words. 🙁 It the thing all winter lovers dread: snow conditions are lousy and the weather is acting like it has forgotten how to make snow. Even during winters that eventually turn out quite well for us, there have been periods like these. So we just gotta stick-and-jab until […]
Ride time! Update 12/19/19
The promise for snow this week rang true as it looks nice and white out there again! Snow cover is several inches around Indian Lake/Speculator and probably closer to a foot as one presses across Moose River Plains into the western Adirondacks. With everyone chomping at the bit to ride, I’ll give you my best […]
Maybe some fun next week, then? Update 12/12/19
Chances are you aren’t riding, so I’ve got quite a bit of reading (and listening) for you! Read all the way through… I was certainly disappointed to see our mini-bounty of white gold from early December go poof in the night. But our previous 6-12 inches of powdery snow cover wasn’t going to stand a […]
