Ground-n-Pound to Brantingham and back: Ride 1/29/20
It’s nice we’re at the point that we can ride out from Indian Lake without enlisting the services of a trailer. 🙂 So Crazy Cal and I set sail for Old Forge today, eventually deciding on making a run to Brantingham. The groomers got out there and at it Wednesday morning with C8/toward Cedar River […]
Indian Lake to Speculator and Wells: Ride 1/24/20
1/26/20 – 8AM UPDATE: Well… Ended up with 4 inches of wet cement mix at the ilsnow storm center in Indian Lake! Always nice to get the unexpected bounce every now and again. ? 1/24/20 Report When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t sure whether I’d bother riding. But by 11:30am, I was about to […]
Lake Durant to Newcomb: Ride 1/23/20
I was on the fence about taking a snowmobile ride today, until I got a text from Crazy Cal saying: Okay, let’s do it! My sled was still loaded onto the ilsnow.com mobile command unit from Wednesday’s ride, so Cal just loaded his sled after he got home from work. We decided to truck the […]
Invasion Northern Adirondacks! Ride 1/22/20
I’ve been wanting to get in a snowmobile ride with Marcel Carrier of Northern (and Southern) Adirondacks Facebook Page fame for a while. We’ve crossed paths several times and I’m even an administrator on both Facebook pages. But snowmobiling friendships aren’t truly cemented until we ride! My usual playbook to hit the Northern ‘Dacks is […]
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 […]