cleetussnow

Video games and phones killed the good toys.

This winter is a C- minus here. 1 single snowblower storm of middling interest that's it. If we got a blockbuster in northeast this month, even if it mostly misses IMBY, well I will reconsider. This was a not a total skunk winter, but rather a high-end "ratter."

Has my attention

Pretty good storm? Uh yeah I got 3 feet. I have such reverence for that storm I dare not speak of it. I forgot it was on the 13th. Deserves a holiday.

Meh.. La this El that...who cares. Just gimme some damn snow. This sucks.

Morch then Lawn thread followed by heatwave followed by winter 2022/2023 weenie out seasonal forecasts.

We are hopeful for one more day this weekend of casual riding but I don't know if the clubs near me will open the trails.

I shall drag the sleds back north tomorrow. 11 inches for my camp. Wagons north!

That thing is toast.

I have snow trackers. It goes where you aim it, although they are not great in looser snow. But ruts may be a bigger issue than tall carbides solve.

Doesnt look it rn

same mid 30s here at HPN

Yeah Doorman good maps there! I was wondering what it would take to help us forget December and all the missed chanced in January and the pattern coming up could go a long way toward that.

Yes gfs has been all over this one. Day 7 though.

Boi yoi yoi oing

God damn you are a hard on.

You are lucky I cant figure out how to shrink and post a picture I took of my running boards. You cannot unsee it.

I am a believer now re scratchers. The 4 strokes should probably all have them unless they have a radiator of some substance. Scratchers will save hyfax as well. No downside i can think of.

Actually did a Southern loop from there, heading to royalton, south to Barnard (best trails and deepest snow), around up to Pittsfield then Stockton, then back to bethel. The trails around Pittsfield were getting beat up with traffic and seemingly lower snow depth. Heading back into bethel a tree had just fallen across the main trail and cut off bethel from the west, like 5 miles from my truck. There was no way around it. The re route north was 20 miles and thanks to some locals we were saved from a 40 mile re route up around randolph. I am sure a lot of people got a surprise with that tree. The locals we met immediately notified the club. One bad thing about Stockton trails and north (12, 4 and 12b) was that roads are a part of the trails in a many spots, and they were burnt. My sled looked like it was dragged up a beach when we got home with grit and sand in everything. The re route was pretty nasty in that respect, but hey, it was a re route and not the main route. The snow to the south down through Barnard actually seemed to be the deepest, more than what we encountered to the north oddly. Perhaps there was some elevation at play and the pittsfield area is a valley? Dunno. We had no plan and even if we did the tree would’ve effed it up anyway. It was a good snowmobile adventure in a new place so a good day for me and the boy. I hope we can sneak in another ride.

Bethel VT... should have been more specific.

My track is 1.25 inch paddle with studs. Sled is a 1200 which is notorious for overheating. My son's 2 stroke - no studs and no scratchers...never overheats.

I put a set on and it saved my weekend. The underside of the sled was coated in snow/slush. The hard snow sunday was not great to ride in so we kept the day short. Went 120 miles saturday out of Bethel though. some great trails there in A plus shape.

Well we got 3 huge cutters on the gfs spaced out every 5 days. This the operational of course. Ensemables support that pattern. Lights out pattern.

D+. It snowed once and I used the blower. I also went snowmobiling to my camp once. I will go again this weekend and ride in the mud and then take them home for the season. The final grade for this season can't be more than a C, and only if we got a march snowstorm of something more than middling magnitude. The rest of February is toast so Morch is all we got.

Time to fire up winter 22-23 thread...lol