Ron Rybicki

Thats great but I dont trust these e- tec engines. They run so lean that they run hot and it seems most of the time. I found that I need a minimum of 1 to 2 inches to keep my heat in the safe range. I’m running 2 ice scrapers on mine. When I first got it I took a ride on Evergreen (Had about 1 inch loose snow) and down the trail towards Morehouse. Next thing I know my high temp light went on so I stopped and put snow on the heat exchanger. This might have been the start of my downward spiral to causing the rubber intake manifold mounts to develop cracks and lean the engine out more to where I ate a piston on Piseco. Cost me $1700 to get going again.
With this rain coming and no snow for cooling and the temp for Friday nite to be almost in the single digits I might be done for this week end. I might just get out my 1970 Skidoo with boogie wheels and a fan to take a ride.
Ron
PS If you did,nt make the bon fire and fire works at the Ox Bow you missed a great time. Tons of people. Been going there since 1973 when I first came to the Piseco area. Wife and I have dinner there almost evry Friday nite.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by Ron Rybicki.
• This reply was modified 3 years ago by Ron Rybicki.
• This reply was modified 3 years ago by Ron Rybicki.

SLUSH
And plenty of it on the lakes
Friday rode to the Salisbury Club from west of Piseco thru Sheriff Lake area on C4 and S88 to the Powley Rd. Best I ever seen Sheriff Lake trails. Powley Rd was great all the way to the end. Arietta Town Hi way Super let the big BR180 go all the way to the end, Thanks a bunch Craig Small. C8A to Stratford was a little bumpy on way down and beat on the way back. Real thin on C4 into down town but passable. The new section of C4A from the end of Ukraine Rd (old ski tow) to the next Rd was very bad due to what snow they got stayed in the spruce trees and did not hit the ground. The club did try but all they did was slide the drag over big rocks and humps till it was snirt but passable. Rest of way into the club was great but on the way back all trails were bumpy due to a lot of traffic
Saturday rode to the Bon Fire and Fire works at the Ox Bow Inn back thru Sheriff Lake, Powley Rd to RT 10 (C4) over Spy Lake to the Bow. Spy was all deep slush and you’d better have a lot of power to get across the short end. C4 over the hill from Rt 10 was beat on the corners and steep hills. I’m not sure if Peasant Riders can even get it back into shape with out some snow. Heard a guy blew a belt out in the middle of Spy and had to change it while his friends watched from shore. I guess you only need one guy to change a belt. The Bow was a mob scene. 5 deep at the bar and over a 100 sleds in the yard. Christy (owner) ran out of food at about 6:30 and dont know if she had enough to open on Sunday. We were lucky and got her small delicious Greek Pizza just before. Heard it was like this since 11 AM when the first wave hit. Also heard that Piseco Lake was deep slush from one end, 5 miles to the other end. My niece was watching the sleds on the lake from the hill at the Irondequoit Inn. They sound like motor boats plowing thru the slush. Several people asked me how to get around Piseco rather than try it after dark. When this freezes this week and it will, the lakes will be a real hazzard to run.
Now with rain predicted for this Thursday it may turn out to be a real treat to try to run these trails again. I sure hope we are not done for the season.
Ron

A ambitious loop for you guys would be from Indian Lake south thru Perkins Clearing to Oxbow for gas, lunch or dinner. Ox Bow motel right there but call ahead for reservations. If you can’t get into the motel you will have to back track into Spectacular about 20 minutes of lakes for a motel. From here go west over Piseco Lake, thru Morehouse trail system (Excellent trails ) into the Ohio Club system (good trails but a lot of traffic on week ends) You then can go north and cross Hinkley Reservoir (Lot of sleds crossing OK). Now your into Penn Mountain system (also good trails ( but beat on week ends). Still going north you got options to go into Trackside Trail Blazer trails towards Old Forge or head north west closer towards where you want to go. Or reverse your trip. Watch your gas. (from Oxbow only gas is at the Ohio Tavern-35 miles or gas at Hinkley crossing on RT 365
We rode from Piseco this past Saturday thru More House into Ohio and on the the Alamo Inn @ Newport. (Excellent all the way going but a little chewed up coming back) but I’ve seen it worse.
PS I would’nt spend the money for a Old Forge permit just to get thru. You can ride to Big Moose Lake around and head to Raquette Lake then to Indian Lake

Hey Icicleal
My friends took Morehouse to the Ohio Hotel Friday via the Mad Tom trail. (S46A) Morehouse was great. Mad Tom (S46A) was OK passable but could use some grooming. The Ohio boys are only grooming the roads around town not much on the trails yet. They were lucky to get into the Hotel as by 1PM you had just enough room to stand.
They decided to take the trail to Mosquito Hill via buck point camp.( Herk. 17) Rough all the way but there was an attempt to groom from buck point to the Hill (C4C) from Hill thru Moremouse to Evergreen was great. You guys in Morehouse are wearing out the snow but good for us. To bad Arietta wont spend the money that we give them to do what you guys do.
Ron

Saturday PM We Rode to the out house via the Piseco Air port ( for the amount of snow the trail was good ) then Fawn Lake trail to Sacandaga Lake ( trail was also good ) and to Ox Bow ( like you said Ox Bow trail was beat due to lack of white stuff and probably a 1000 sleds on it Saturday ) for dinner. The short trail to Piseco Lake ( which was good for the amount of traffic it gets ) Like Indian and Louwy, Piseco had its slush spots, but nothing to worry about.
Ron

Our first decent ride one year ago was on January 15th at the west end of Piseco Lake. We went over Evergreen into Morehouse system as we know the boys there do a fantastic job on their trails. In fact most of our riding was in this direction for most of last season.
Ron

My wife just got a picture on facebook of a quite high pressure ridge on Sacandaga Lake out from Browns Point across the lake. It is probably still building so be cautious on both side of it cause as they build the ice bellys down and water weeps thru cracks. We have seen a foot of slush & water on both side of these pressure ridges and some times there is no problem crossing them. My friend totaled his sled when he hit one at 70 plus on Sacandage a few years back. He was lucky that he got air born and did not slam into a wall of ice. He hurt his shoulder when he landed nose down and rolled it.
If there is one on Sac then you can count on one or two on Piseco. I hope not cause we use Piseco a lot.
Ron

Hey Iclcleal
Was talking to the forester this past September. He said the Ohio Club got a bridge in that Fly south of Mosquito Hill but as of this past November there has been no attempt to get a bridge built over Mill Creek on the Jerseyfield Lake Rd to Bull Hill (C4A)
All kinds of excuses from the Law Suit to requiring a Structural Engineer to tell them how to build a 15 or 20 foot bridge so the trail is still unsafe and now with no cold temps the mud holes should be wide open. GREAT
Now for maybe the good news.
The old owner of Evergreen Park is staying for the whole winter (so I was told) Maybe now the dam might be better taken care of to regulate the level of the lake so we do not get mud holes in it as we had seen with the new owner. The new owner is now the new Supervisor of Arietta but not a snowmobiler. I offered my expertise but he did not seem to interested as he said we have a trail boss who also is not a snowmobiler. I’ve only been riding the trails in town for the past 48 years. Stlil no work being done on the mud holes in Sheriff Lake.
The town only gets an avg. of $42,000 bucks a year to maintain the trails though.
PS WE had a venison hot dog roast at the G Lake cable the last Saturday of the season and knew you were in there. You probably saw the fire still going when you came out. I put 3 shots in the air to get you interested.
Off for now
Ron

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