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110 miles on a Thursday afternoon: Ride to Speculator & Wells
After getting home from the Skillet concert at 1am Thursday morning and with the trails being frozen ice/hard pack, I wasn’t thinking of going out on the snowmobile today. But the coastal-nor’ester nudged up just enough to kiss Indian Lake in the cheek with a fresh inch-and-a-half of snow and I just had to get out […]
Indian Lake & Speculator, Twice! Update 2/1/17
Some friends needed a mental health day so they decided to rent a snowmobile from Village Motorsports and ride up to Indian Lake. I was more than happy to take a run down to Speculator to meet up then show them my neck of the woods. You just know the day is gonna be alright when it starts […]
Attempt at Salisbury: Update 1/26/17
Update 1/28/17: 3 inches of fresh snow down as of Saturday morning here in Indian Lake, with much more further west. If you want to sit the couch this weekend, that’s your business. But I think that most people who come here to snowmobile this weekend will come away happy! I also got word that […]
Yes! Snowmobile ride to Speculator 1/11/17
My ride to Speculator happened Wednesday. I know that today’s thaw will change the conditions, but the snowmobile ride has a story worth telling and might provide a sort of “base line” for what conditions could be like over the holiday weekend. So, here it goes! We got 3 almost inches of snow/sleet mash Tuesday […]
Down but not out! Update 12/27/16
It’s always a bummer to get a warm-up and rain. But we didn’t fare that badly. Although the temperature shot up to 43*F Monday night at Indian Lake, we got very little rain…in the order of a quarter-inch. Temperatures then fell through the 30s on Tuesday, which stopped the bleeding. The winds also got really strong, […]
