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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 […]

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Opening Day Scoop: Update 12/6/19

12/8/19 Update: Snow cover throughout the central Adirondacks in generally around a foot or less in most places. Monday and Tuesday will take a dent out of that, with the leftovers being frozen in place by Wednesday. Generally speaking, avoid trails that are not seasonal roads and let the snowmobile clubs and town crews clean […]

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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 […]

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Call for help!

A picture is worth a thousand words, eh? The Halloween storm dumped 4-5 inches of rain over the southern and central Adirondacks, severely washing out numerous roads and snowmobile trails. Powerful winds in the storm’s wake uprooted large trees or split them in two. Needless to say, our snowmobile trail systems are a mess now. […]

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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 […]

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