ilsnow.com - Part 117
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Pain! Update 1/29/13

Although the upcoming Thaw will be short lived, it will be very damaging. Here’s the setup for the main event Wednesday night into early Thursday: We’ve got a monster storm carving its way through the Great Lakes tapping into a subtropical plume. Not good at all! Meso-NAM is depicting widespread 1-2 inch rain with localized […]

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Indian Lake to Speculator 1/29/13

After we got the half-foot of snow yesterday, I knew what had to be done: I would blow off work and take Darrin Jr out of school to go for a ride before we get hit full bore with the next Thaw! The snow really helped the Indian Lake village trails tremendously and the groomers […]

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Snow Update 1/28/13

Got snow here! I measured 5.5 inches at the ilsnow.com storm center this evening. Most other reports I’ve seen around Hamilton County were somewhere around 3 inches. What are you waiting for? Get you can up here and do some riding Tuesday before Wednesday’s Thaw! If you find my posts valuable, please consider making a […]

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Indian Lake Snowmobile Ride 1/27/13

Adirondack Mountain Sports repaired the damage from my ill-fated ride a week ago. So Darrin Jr and I picked up the ole’ XP and did some riding this afternoon. The inner village trails were snirty and had some small chop. There were a corners scuffed down to dirt, but overall the trails were not bad […]

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State of the Winter Address: Update 1/25/13

Let’s try a game called Guess Which Winter: Winter A (through January 25th): Significant snowfall around 8 inches just before Thanksgiving (Good for a lawn jockey ride!). Warm December with little snow. January also warm with nickel and dime snow events that constantly got negated by thaw and rain. But a couple of modest snows […]

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