Perkins Clearing
Ride time! Update 12/19/19
The promise for snow this week rang true as it looks nice and white out there again! Snow cover is several inches around Indian Lake/Speculator and probably closer to a foot as one presses across Moose River Plains into the western Adirondacks. With everyone chomping at the bit to ride, I’ll give you my best […]
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 […]
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 […]
