Perkins Clearing
Perkins Clearing 3/11/14
When there is good snow cover, mid-March is a great time to ride! The late sunsets and balmy evenings are reward for the locals who stick it out all winter here. 🙂 After I got home from work, I set sail for Perkins Clearing. The Indian Lake village trails and C8/Sabael trail were groomed today […]
Ride to Perkins Clearing & Speculator 2/14/14
UPDATE 2/15 PM: D.R.A.G of Speculator reports their BR-110 is FIXED and ready to do battle on the bumps tonight and through the weekend. 🙂 TRAIL REPORT 2/14: Darrin Jr and I took a ride down to Perkins Clearing & Speculator this afternoon. This wasn’t Valentine’s Day 2007 with the 3 feet of snow, but […]
Ride to Powley Road 2/8/14
Mattie and I got to Cal’s house by 8:30AM this morning to capitalize on the great conditions early on. Indian Lake village trails were newly groomed and flat out awesome. Sabael trail was also very nice, save for a few rock tops to clank carbide on. Indian Lake was a cold, windswept sunny run from end […]
Trail Report 2/5/14
Wednesday’s storm delivered, big time! Final storm total was 9.5 inches at the ilsnow.com storm center. Speculator sat in a heavy snow band most of the afternoon and evening and ended up with over a foot. It was a dry, powdery snow…but not air fluff. EXCELLENT STUFF! This picture was how it looked outside my […]
Ride to Perkins Clearing & Speculator 1/28/14
Ridin’ Rich Lupia at Upstatesnow.com wanted the ilsnow.com tour of the Speculator area. I blew off work and embarked on the trip with a temperature of -3*F, and it didn’t get a whole lot warmer than that during the day. The Indian Lake village trails were groomed, but the low snow was not enough to […]
