Weather Blog
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 […]
Black Friday, White Snodeo?
November 2019 certainly wasn’t the second coming of last year’s November Snow-mageddon. But we did manage to have snow cover throughout the majority of the month with overall temperatures averaging 3-4 degrees below normal. Not bad for a month that usually drags on, and on, and on… Indian Lake even scored it’s first sub-zero morning […]
Sno-vember?
Some very powerful storms have rolled across North America this autumn with record-smashing snows over parts of the Rockies and into the Dakotas. More recently we had our Halloween storm, which brought devastating flooding and extremely damaging wind to ilsnow land. In the end, I witnessed my first snowflakes at the season on the morning […]