Weather Blog
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 […]
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, […]
