Ron Rybicki
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Salisbury sez trails are open. Talked to friends who rode from Evergreen to Salisbury last Saturday and said it was passable but not great. Powley was great but after Powley to Club was rough in places so go slow. Mud holes were froze and passable.
Sunday saw 3 inches of white gold and more coming on Tuesday.
Might be forced to go up and give it a last ditch effort this week end.
Ron.Ohio just posted yesterday on face book that the only trail they have open from the north is C4 jones rd to C4B near the Ohio Tavern. Any trail from Nobolosboro north or west to Ohio is closed due to a lack of snow on the trails here to run the big groomers, which I find hard to believe cause Steve Bazon ( local forest ranger ) and several members of the Club years ago ran a D6 bull dozer thru the Mad Tom section to S46 intersection and the Weakly boys used their excavator to fix, remove rocks and ditch from here to Nobolosboro. This is a high snow corridor trail formula that we paid to have maintained with our registration. It aint even cut out this year.
RonSalisbury just announced that their trails are now open but rough in a lot of places. They groomed what they could with the new snow and found some water holes here and there and some bare spots in the fields.
Ron.No word on face book that these trails got enough of the white gold to re open. So they are officially still closed.
RonAs Darrin said in his weather report. You had better know where the CRICK INLETS and LAKE OUTLETS are or do not ride the lakes. I see sleds at the OxBow on the web cam so I know they crossed a lake or lakes to get here. Even most locals have to at least cross Oxbow Lake to get here and or Spy Lake and or Piseco Lake and or Sacandaga Lake and or Lake Pleasant but they probably know the inlets and outlets
Ron
PS As far as the Ohio and Salisbury trails are concerned. They are still closed at this time. Nothing to the contrary on face book.You guys in Morehouse well deserved a couple of drinks and we thank you very much for the work you guys do here.
Ron and the F Troop RidersWe rode C4A over Evergreen Lake to Ohio last Saturday. Thru Morehouse C4 and Took the Jones Rd C4 to Rt 8 then to the Ohio Tavern. Not as many sleds out as I thought there would be.
Trails are hard as a rock and were holding up real well, but its rain now in Morehouse and Piseco
The trail to Haskells S46A was closed. The club sez there are to many rocks not covered yet however I talked to people that night in Haskells who said the snow cover was not that bad but the trail has several blow downs. This trail was worked over with a bull dozer by the Local Forest Ranger and the club some years ago and should not be that bad as far as rocks go. It should have been cut out. I did not take it but it should have been marked at both ends that its closed.
I know this club relies on volunteers and I am not bad mouthing them but this is what I was told by the President of the club ( Matt K ) Sorry
RonHeard from friends who went thru Morehouse to Haskells in Ohio On C4 and used Evergreen Lake. ( lake was OK, a little mud on the est end) It was a little scratchy once they got past the fire co. in Morehouse. The rest all the way was great for early snow conditions. They met Iciceal Al grooming and of course thanked him and the boys. The Jones RD was great and the Ohio boys broke the banks down along the Wilhurt RD. Haskells was mobbed. They waited for only about a 1/2 hr for a table. They did not go near the Ohio Tavern as they knew what it would be like.
Other friends took the trail C4C down to Mosquito Hill but did not go past as the Ohio club did not even cut it out yet or for that matter did not cut out C4 to Jerseyfield Lake Rd. The trail was great to the Hill.
See my report for Ariett’s trail.
RonWe Know Jersey Mike very well and were with him that night in the Ox Bow talking about his ordeal. We was very lucky to be alive as he said he felt himself falling asleep while in the water hanging on to the ice. The good ol boys from the Long Lake Fire Company has a air boat and got him out. He was in the water for nearly an hour. He has a camp in Evergreen and we see him quite often. Our camp is up on the mountain thru Evergreen and we own the swamp where you get on and off of the lake here.
RonIt was reported on the Albany Channel 13 news at 12 noon today the divers found the body of the snowmobilier that went in Pecks Lake last night. Very sorry and sincere condolences to his family.
RonAs of January 7th Evergreen is shot and unsafe at both ends. Panther Mtn. stream is cut out into the lake about 30 feet wide and the whole length of its east shore. The stream was roaring all nite but it did skim over where we cross it as the temp did get down to 14 above.
The dam is wide open but I hope when the stream calms down the owner starts to close it or we will have mud holes that will swallow a sled whole at the west end.
RonBig Thanks Iciceal AL—- How did I know Morehouse would be the first gang of groomers out. We were up to camp last Wednesday the 21st. At least 24′ on the ground and Evergreen was locked shore to shore. As of today Piseco still had open water on it.
The BR 180 was at the Powley RD but can’t tell if it was moved at all. The Scandics were not there yet on the end of Old Piseco Rd. but its early and maybe Arietta is not grooming till the southern clubs start. I know Salisbury and probably Ohio is not opening their trails till the end of the special hunt for the southern zone as a respect to the hunting clubs here.
I checked with Salisbury and the Jerseyfield Lake Rd to Ohio (C4) has had NO work by the DEC to date. I called the Senior Forester (Keith Rivers) about this in October to see if we were to get anything done to make this trail safe for snowmobiling He never called me back so to every one seeing this post–Do not take this trail until as it is dangerous to use. Only been 26 years now to try to get them to fix it.
PS MY niece Jen is now the manager of the Irondequoit Inn on the east end of Piseco Lake and is going to be open for snomobiliers who may want a old Adirondack experience with room and board.
RonArietta & Morehouse Trail
WE did not ride this past week end but here’s my friends report from yesterday. They started in Evergreen-Rode thru Sheriff Lake ( C4 & S88 )- Super Great to the Powley Rd, up and down Powley ( C8A )- Bumpy in the turns and hills, Crossed Rt 10 rode to Oxbow ( C4 )- Worn out on the hills and turns but passable. Lunch at Oxbow then to Piseco Lake via the short trail-Clipped a few rocks but passable (no problems), Fall Stream cutting way into Piseco-gave it a wide swing-not to far as Mill Creek near the Irondequoit Club beach cuts in, down Piseco back to Evergreen and on thru Morehouse ( C4A ) ( just groomed by the good ole boys of Morehouse) to the Fire Co. Took a break then back to Evergreen via ( C 4 ) Sheriff Lake area. 60 miles and worth ever inch of it.
With the temps this coming week we might get a short one in and burn some dogs of death either on the Powley Rd or Mosquito Hill or maybe not. Depends on the predicted rain for Saturday and Sunday coming up. But we will see.
RonOhio Club trail C4 from Jerseyfield Lake Rd to Bull Hill is definetly closed. We took it this past Saturday thru Morehouse to Mosquito Hill and on towards the Salisbury Club. Dont try it. There is a major wash out with a ice jam on it about a 1/2 mile from the bridge that the DEC was supposed to replace this past year but never did. Going on 25 years now begging them to make this a safe trail to ride. We got thru by cutting some bushes around the ice jam and made it to the top of the switch back where there at least 25 sleds taking in the view. We just got thru the jam when here come at least a dozen rider, some double going towards Ohio. I should have told them to take some pictures and send them to their local politicians. This may be the only way we will ever get this trail fixed. I really dont think Ohio care whether it fixed or not. They can blame the DEC for not being able to groom it while reaping the high snow corridor funding.. It should be closed and de funded. Maybe other people will then complain beside me and maybe if enough complain we might see some action.
After leaving the Salisbury Club we went north thru Stratford and beat our liver loose on the bumps and dodged mud holes around open mud holes . Must have been a ton of sleds cause it was tore up bad. Powley Rd was great. Deep rollers on the turns and hills though..
We are done going this way this year and we might be done for sure. It poured in Piseco till about noon Mud holes opening up.
Friends went to the Ohio Tavern thru Nobolsboro and said it was great all the way.. A little scratchy from Haskells along Rt 8 in some places.
RonBoy, Do I agree on the cost of these sleds today. Some of these prices are unreal for What! At best we get maybe 9 week ends of decent riding these days, then the mud holes start to appear. Once I plow thru a mud hole with a $10,000 sled I’m done. Some times we push the envelope and try to get into the 2nd week of March and as I said my wife and I almost got into trouble trying to get onto Oxbow Lake a few years ago. So far in the last 5 years or so we have a hard time to get this far. We mainly ride out of our camp in Evergreen and almost all of the trails we ride are goat paths as Darin calls the trail from Piseco to the out house near Fawn Lake intersection. The town of Arietta did help the DEC fix most of this trail after I got the big boss in Raybrook to tell his foresters to go ahead and spend the money to bring in the lumber and do it. The trail was unsafe and it was only a matter of time that a rider would get hurt in one of the horrible mud holes here. I also got them to let the town make a couple of re routes on state land up in Sheriff Lake. And I complement the town of Morehouse also. Those boys every year try to make improvements to their trail system and you can see it when you ride them. As a snowmobilier I definitely see the climate change. In the early 90’s we would get up to 15 feet of snow for a season. Now we are lucky to get 6 or 7 feet. I envy Darin’s rides and follow his routes on the big map to see where he’s talking about. He definitely is a avid snowmobilier. Nuff said
Ron
