Weather Blog
Presidents Week Update: 2/18/19
Indian Lake picked up almost 4 inches of air-fluff snow on Monday, which brought back the nice mid-winter luster. As you can see from the opening graphic, snow pack is 2 feet or greater throughout much of the south-central Adirondacks. There were TONS of snowmobiles in town over the weekend and predictably, the trail conditions […]
Update 2/4/19
Sunshine broke through the clouds and temperatures soared to near 50*F Monday afternoon. I thought that a snowmobile ride in spring-like warmth would be a nice change of pace from the near-zero cold I rode in last week. So I headed out for a spin after work. Aside from some wet/icy spots and a few […]
Got hurt! Update 1/24/19
Not going to get into much specifics on yesterday’s ride because the conditions have changed dramatically since then: I banged out 160 miles yesterday including: Indian Lake, Newcomb, Long Lake, Raquette Lake, Uncas Road, Eagle Bay, Big Moose, Old Forge, Inlet loop trails and Moose River Plains back to Indian Lake. Most of what I […]
Feeling Long Lakey: Ride 1/16/19
Hearing that the trails held up well (in most places) over the weekend gave me encouragement for some good ole fashioned mid-week riding. I’ve hit Old Forge a couple times already. Speculator wasn’t readily available in my playbook due to the C8/Sabael Trail closure. So I decided to run the Indian Lake, Newcomb, Long Lake, […]
New Year’s White Hope? Update 12/22/18
I’m not going to lie: Snowmobiling conditions SUCK right now. That’s what Friday’s 51*F and 2 inches of rain does for us. It’s really that simple. Around town we have a residual 4-10 inch snow pack. Those customary snow bowls on the south-central Adirondacks still hold over a foot. But that’s not the whole story: […]
