Perkins Clearing
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 […]
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 […]
No April Fool! 4/1/19 Perkins Clearing Ride
Sunday night’s fresh inch of snow inspired me to take a Perkins Clearing rip, just to say I rode in April. So, I trucked my sled down to Mason Lake parking lot and started from there. I gotta say that if we had gotten several inches of snow, I would have been seriously tempted to do […]
One More Weekend! Update 3/22/19
11:55 PM FRIDAY Update: After our 5 inches melted down to 2-3 inches, we picked up another inch or two of snow at night. Falling temperatures were making the wet snow “set up” on the trails. Groomers should be able to work some magic on Saturday once the trails have fully firmed up. The melting […]
Did you get out and ride Wednesday? Update 3/13/19
Wednesday was the last day of my “weekend” and Crazy Cal blew off work. So we were looking to RIDE, RIDE, RIDE! Temperature around ride time was about 7*F. Heading out of Indian Lake, S84 out toward Blue Mountain Lake was being groomed and in great riding shape. 538/Newcomb trail had a fresh groom and […]
