Salisbury and Ohio Trails
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I dont think Ohio ever opened their trails yet as far as I know, how ever I see tracks at the Ohio Tavern on the web map. They usually announce on face book and I did not hear they opened yet. The tracks were pretty bare.
Salisbury did put out on face book that their trails are closed due to the warm weather and rain they just got. They have a lot of farm lands just like Ohio and do not want farmers pissed at the club when dildos like the ones who got the west end of Sacandaga Lake closed to us or the ones who filled the out house full of beer cans on the Fawn Lake Trail one year. To all you folks who watch this web site please be respectful on our trails especially on private lands. Please pass the word on.
RonOhio and Salibury just reported in via face book. Their trails are closed due to the rain and loss of snow in spots on their trails.
RonSalisbury trails just reported on facebook that their club is open but the trails are still closed due to what beautiful white stuff we did have took a beating from rain and warm temps. Lot of farm land down here so farmers dont want sleds in their fields. I’m sure the mud holes north of Stratford are still open also. Going to be nice and cold for a few days but we need that below zero temp to set up the adk. muck that generates heat and keeps them open.
RonSalisbury trails just reported on facebook that their club is open but the trails are still closed due to what beautiful white stuff we did have took a beating from rain and warm temps. Lot of farm land down here so farmers dont want sleds in their fields. I’m sure the mud holes north of Stratford are still open also. Going to be nice and cold for a few days but we need that below zero temp to set up the adk. muck that generates heat and keeps them open. I see a couple of sleds at the Ohio Hotel on the web cam. They are probably locals and are not riding on farmers fields.
RonSaw on face book Ohio is grooming around the bars and big roads in their heated cabs. I can see the wide drag marks at the Ohio Hotel. I wonder if the club will get out on C4C to Mosquito Hill or C4J to Jerseyfield Rd. Here they have to use a Scandic and it does’nt have a heated cab or go to a bar. They probably have close to 3 feet of lake effect by now so they can’t say they don’t have enough snow.
I’d like to find out who in the Herkimer County Alliance is in charge of paying out the trail maintenance money to this club. They are high snow and corridor trails for maximum payment. Herkimer County is the highest paid county in NYS by our registrations and this was when we were paying $45 bucks a sled. At last count 2 years ago the were getting over $250,000 for their trails. These trails were only cut out after 2 years in the spring of 2024 and I’ll bet not touched since.
More of you folks out there that ride here should also be calling NYSSA and the Herkimer County Director to NYSSA.
I said it before and I’ll say it again.. I’m 84 now and probably will not ride these trails again.
RonIt was reported on facebook that Ohio groomed or at least pulled a drag into Mosquito Hill C4C and Morehouse is still trying to break open the rest of it up to the French Rd. Icicecal reported that some of the flys that their part crosses was flooded and much blowdown to cut thru. Also they dont know what the beaver dam looks like right at the hill. Ohio did get to Black Creek Lake Rd S46A but never said if they went down to Nobolsboro bridge or the Jones RD. Talked to riders in the Ohio Hotel this past Saturday. They all said the trails were great around town and up towards Remsen. However there were no tracks crossing Hinkley from the camp ground to the north side. Riders I talked to said they were going around and over the dam to get across.
Ron.Darin
Sounds like you and Jr. had a great ride this past Wednesday. I did not realize that the Salisbury Club was not open during the week this year. They used to be open 7 days a week during peak snow time. I’m glad you did not try C4 (on the map) towards Jerseyfield Lake Rd. We know this as the Mud Lake trail that at best it might get cut out this year let alone groomed. I cant find out if the Ohio Club even did any thing on it yet even though there is plenty of snow on it. Also if you ever get back this way–try Rocky’s on Hinkley Lake. You can get to it on Hinkley off of trail 4B. The trail goes right by a DEC camp ground where once the lake is safe you will see and lot of riders crossing here. You will see a big Island looking north on your left side of the main track. Swing wide close to the Island and head west till you see the big Resort. This is Rocky’s. We go this way cause if you take the plowed and heavy sanded 3 miles of roads thru Grant off of 4B your temp light will be screaming . You had my favorite wich at the Ohio Tavern. Becky, Dans wife is with out a doubt the best cook in the Adirondacks.
PS Dont ride Hinkley until you see a hundred sleds crossing at the DEC camp site. My wife hates this lake as one year we rode right by open water flowing near the north side, where 2 guys went in 12 feet of water here some years ago .
RonOn face book Ohio groomed all around the big trails near the Ohio Tavern with the heated cab big machines. No mention of the trails that have to be groomed with a Scandic like the one to Mosquito Hill ( C4C ) or the one to Jerseyfield lake Rd. (C4) or the one along Rt 8 at Nobolsboro. (S46A) . Oh well at least we get a good ride from Piseco thru Morehouse to the Tavern. Maybe they will hit these smaller trails soon. Morehouse is always good. ( C4 )
It was just announced on face book that they groomed S46A to South Lake. We call this the trail that goes nowhere as there are no business’s or any place to get gas or food here or to North Lake 2 miles away on heavy sanded road. Unless Trackside Groomers get down to North Lake from Bear Creek lake Rd. which they will groom when all of their other trails are done with a Scandic. For some reason the club insist on getting this trail done before they do the trails that have the most traffic uses. as I mentioned above. I dont get it and I have brought this subjuect to the club president many times. I give up.
RonOhio Club announced that all of their trails are now open. That Perry S. went from Jerseyfield Lake Rd to Bull Hill Rd. ( C4 ) and from Buck Point Lodge intersection 17 ( C4C) to Mosquito Hill. They said C4 to Jerseyfield Rd was a little rough in places but passable.
With the high winds we are experiencing I would guess that you will encounter trees or at best limbs down on these trails as they are in the deep woods with no open fields.
Have to wait for more info from the Club for this up coming week end.
RonLooking at what the rain did to already marginal conditions below Dolgeville I cant see much hope here. My friends got below the Opinheim Club last Saturday and found bare fields. No lube or cooling. They had to stop several times and throw snow from the patches they could find on their heat syncs. Once they got past the Dolgeville R & G Club heading to the Salisbury Club they said you could see the snow getting deeper. How ever all the trails around the club, thru Stratford to the Powley Rd were tore up and horrible. On the way down thru Pleasant Lake to Opinheim they said the trails were great.
We all know that you cant put a couple of hundred sleds on a narrow trail like C8A at he end of the Powley Rd and expect it to be any thing but horrible by that night. I have come back to Piseco so many time at night from down here and found the same trail conditions, but usually the boys from Stratford and Salisbury get out and do their magic with the drags so we dont have to knock our livers loose all the time.
RonDarin was right about the lakes being glazed over. Talked to guys that came from Spectacular last Friday in the OxBow. They did not have studs or good carbides and could not hold it straight, wound up doing several spins outs. By Saturday though the Piseco area got several inches blown into piles but enough to cool and lube the slides.
We rode down to the Doldgeville R & G Club this past Saturday and had a great ride. Several well used trails like C8A, C4, and C4A in a lot of places had the 3 to 8 inch stutters. And of course a lot worse getting back to Piseco that night. But it was a great ride and went to the top of the highest point in Herkimer County ( Barto Hill ) for the view of the wind mills all around there. Almost got blown off the hill. Wind was extreme. Did’nt spend to much time there. If you ever plan to see this view, stop at the Saisbury Club to get one of their local maps as very few of the trails down here are marked. That big NYS map is worthless. I did not ride around down here for a couple of years and the club changed some of the trails so I stopped sleds a couple of times to ask directions.
Darin is right about the warm up coming so I think it could be over down in these southern areas. I saw mud holes starting to open up along C8A ( our 5 mile from hell ) (Powley Rd to Stratford). Around Piseco there is still over 2 feet of snow on the ground and the trails are hard as a rock. This coming week end is over heat time for my e tec but I took my sleds home for the season anyway. I dont ride thru mud holes any more.
Ron
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