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Ride Day! Update 2/20/19

Wasn’t sure where I was gonna head today. So I just started up my sled this morning and hoped the groomers were able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. Around Indian Lake, the groomers did get out and it looked really good: Since I hadn’t been to points south for much of the winter, I […]

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Tough Sledding Continues: Update 12/28/18

Well… Until today, not much new to report on. Trails were as hard as a brick and the washouts had frozen over. I had seen a few snowmobiles bopping around town, so I can say the trails are passable but rough…probably not fun to ride for long distances. Light snows over the past several days […]

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New Year’s White Hope? Update 12/22/18

I’m not going to lie: Snowmobiling conditions SUCK right now. That’s what Friday’s 51*F and 2 inches of rain does for us. It’s really that simple. Around town we have a residual 4-10 inch snow pack. Those customary snow bowls on the south-central Adirondacks still hold over a foot. But that’s not the whole story: […]

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Tough sleddin’ ahead: Update 12/17/18

We dodged a bullet last weekend, but I don’t think we’ll be so lucky for the next go around. The top of the snow pack is crusty from the sleet/freezing rain mixture we got on Sunday. We did get a bit of snow mixed in, but not enough to move the needle up for us. […]

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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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