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27f NW 30+ Snow squalls. Cold out. Dropping to 15f tonight, gonna stay below fzg until 1200 Sunday. Be windy though... Had a squall earlier as cf blew through. Nice eve, a little bit of alpenglow and some dusting from earlier. The fields are calling...

Ya, I followed your trip then. Unable to comment for ages before finding my password lately. They've made the base a pretty neat ride segment with the runway trail. The coolest part is the old nuke storage bunkers. They're still there laid down in the woods like a 50's subdivision. Streets of them in the woods around the open central control area where we are sitting atop one here. Fun to ride on top of the buried ones, stop and wonder how many megatons were stacked 10' beneath you not so long ago. Great ride in there. Gotta know the way in/out.

That's how I feel as I putt around with the fields all to myself. A private playground.

Used to move 100k+ bbl petroleum barges out of NYC. Hudson, LIS, Bos and such to Searsport. But not on the mighty Aroostook. Would have simplified my commute. And ice hardly ever stopped us. 4500 hp will move a load pretty good and if the ice grows too thick we bring an assist boat. Don't do it any more. Don't miss it!

River let go last 2 days. Down at my crossing to ITS 88. No trail riding for me! My sign for riders brave enough to cross- Still over 2' with 4-6" tonight. Began around 1600- nice soft fluff on a packed base Vim Toot!

Great season. Still much to go here Up East. Got 1-2" this am now just snotty but good lockup cold here tonight. Steady increasing snowpack after mid-Jan. Nethers deep in the woods. River ice came late and after early Jan high water left 8' ice walls on the banks access was difficult. Made my river crossing first on snowshoes around late January then by sled until my last crossing yesty before ice opened up late afternoon. Took this from my pond yesterday. My hideout up top.

New Yorky Dork thinks this is a religion board.

Got the sled in the garage! Been 30-32 all day. Snowing since 2300 last night. Goin down to 26 tonight. Compacted 6" now, 2-3" more till evening.

Up here, late March is a sure thing every year. Mid-April is the finish here. Late April up the NW Allagash. i'm talkin off trail.

16f and clear. 5f just NW of here. Going there. Gonna snow tonite/tomorrow, 6" probably.

24f 4" new yesty/last night. Goin ridin!

Ivory Coast rebel?

All eyes on Boreal Maine! Watch us snow! SE Mass winter has broken George I think.

Oh yeah. Was just looking at AS account. Had actually forgotten about that. Thought the name was sort of stupid and made some rookie mistakes so... Good memory!

Not many posts under that name. It was early and I hadn't "upped my game" yet...

Oh, my ego!

Ya, but I like choice #2. (Inserted "choice" after reading sentence above..)

Oh.

These spring days the snow is rideable everywhere. But bring gas with you.

The weenies are funny but what'd I do?

12f this morning. 1.5" new last night. Sorry for the blur.

Buffalo in Midwest div. Caribou in Boreal NE.

2' in the woods, 1.5' in the fields. 6-8' on the river. That's where all the ground blizzard snows settle.

You wont regret the ride up. No one ever does!! Even if we went full melt there's so much to go and the big lakes last till mid April easy if the trails run out. But that's all academic as we are going to get buried over the next week with good solid cold locking up every night. You timed it good.

Even after grooming is down the trails get smoother and smoother every day as the melt settles and firms again with the night freeze. Sleep in then go out as the surface re-softens and TEAR IT UP. Spring riding is the smoothest of all.