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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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Ain’t over until it’s…. Update 4/5/19

With the cold (for April) weather we’ve had here the past several days, snow pack has only been slowly whittled away from roadsides, buildings, southerly exposures and trees. In the woods, there is still 1-2+ feet of snow off-trail. I can tell you that places like Powley Road, Perkins Clearing and Speculator Tree Farm are […]

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Spring Ride! Update 3/27/19

I actually tried this ride on Tuesday. Even with the strong late-March sun, the crusty snow was not breaking up in the woods or the lakes enough to keep the heat-exchangers happy, even with ice scratchers deployed. In particular, Indian Lake was hard as a brick, even into the afternoon as temperatures didn’t even break […]

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Vulture Ride 1/27/19

I usually don’t ride weekends, much less Sunday night after the trails have been thrashed from the hordes. But with the 9+ inches of snow we got today, I just had to take a ride after I got off work. And there is usually little traffic by Sunday night as everyone has gone home. Indian […]

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Opening Weekend! Update 12/6/2018

The first weekend of our 2018-19 Snowmobiling Season is almost here!  And we got some new snow to freshen things up, about a couple of inches here in Indian Lake. Probably at least several inches out in Moose River Plains.  At the moment, snow pack is 8-16 inches throughout the central Adirondacks, with the snow […]

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