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Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/27/13

To say the least, this has been an unusual storm. Snowfall reports in the Indian Lake/Speculator/Piseco corridor were mainly in the 6-8 inch range by 10PM this evening. That’s not the foot-plus that nearby western Warren County got, but it was much better than the light mixture of rain, sleet and snow that Old Forge, […]

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Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/22/13

Snow pack is 16-24 inches “in the woods” around Indian Lake and Speculator, with less on southerly exposures and village highway roadsides. The usual “snow-bowls” west of Route 30 hold over 2 feet of snow. The bigger lakes are starting to get snow dunes from the strong winds we had this week, but the snow […]

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Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/19/13

I had to run by Speculator today, so I got some “drive-by” stuff for you: Indian Lake and Lewey Lake looked like really nice riding. 2 Miles from Hell was freshly groomed midday: The south end (near Perkins Clearing) was especially nice. The north end (near Lewey Lake) had some spots scuffed down to dirt […]

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Snowmobiling Conditions: Update 2/17/13

As expected, the extremely heavy holiday traffic has taken its toll on the trails. Anything I could see from the road late this afternoon was loaded with small bumps with snirty granular snow. In other words: The snow is tired! While picking up dinner in town, I ran into Charlie Clark and his wife from […]

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Ride Video: Weekend of February 9-10, 2013

I finally got this video up. Looks like I might have to open an ilsnow satellite office at the Town Library to use their T1 high speed line for uploading. My past two uploads have failed from home. [vsw id=”2ECVY6m7vjk” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] There’s a lot of stuff here, including: An all-time cheezy 1980s […]

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