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1 hour ago, mreaves said:

For me, the bigger issue comes from tracks that get frozen into the trail.  I hate getting stuck in frozen ski ruts.  Seems like you are always wrestling to keep the sled going the way you want rather following someone else's tracks.

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.  

7 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

GFS amping up Tuesday which would suppress the following system

Doesnt look it rn

1 minute ago, MJO812 said:

45 and windy out

 

Temps are falling like a rock

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.  

14 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Man full upward vertical  motion centered around my mid section when viewing EPS. 

Boi yoi yoi oing

33 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

Who gives a shit?

God damn you are a hard on.  

28 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Sounds like a really good day for you both…great stuff for sure. 
 

The only part that I’d have a problem with, was that sand and grit being in and on everything….I’m cringing at the thought lol…I’d probably need a few months of therapy after that lmao. 

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

2 hours ago, mreaves said:

I have a studs. This is the first year I’ve had them. It was icy enough Sunday that was glad. My son’s 600 ACE overheated a couple of times. Studs no scratchers. 

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. 

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

Did you head north or west?

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.

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

Did you go over towards SR, Andover to Coos Canyon? Its usually good from there to Rangeley.

Bethel VT... should have been more specific. 

1 hour ago, UnitedWx said:

Do you guys that need scratchers have studded tracks? I never needed scratchers when running a 144 studded track

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.

17 minutes ago, dryslot said:

This is the time of year when the ice scratchers come in handy.

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.

5 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

I was thinking the next 10 days might be our delayed Jan thaw, but instead I think it is a full melt out, maybe followed by irritating March snows that stop me from planting in the garden.  Once the pack melts I'm all for spring.

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

21 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Actually EPS and GEFS aren't far off at 12z. 

for what?

23 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

hey ... know what guys ?

This 180 hour depiction off the 12z GFS looks remarkably similar to the way the sleet event also looked when it, too, was a 7.5 days away...  You might recall?  Then as we got closer, the GFS tried to argue more snow... but it ended up being a drab rain a 2" sleet fest...  Just sayn' ... we may not want to be sold on this thin cutting quite a proficiently as it now looks, because it certainly was negotiable on the last event.

One after it looks more fruitful, but jeez 10.5 days out...

on another note, there are a lot more Euro maps available on tropical tidbits.  I know someone will say welcome to a long time ago but I just noticed it.  

5 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

it will be pretty warm in these parts.  In the last 3 years we have had 2 Febs with temps in the 60s at least the coast for a couple days.  Looks possible.  It will be hard for winter to recover from that look.  

I think its perfectly sensible to consider the H5 look at this lead time.  

I like where we are...cautiously optimistic...Dr. NO is coming up next...

Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

The blizzard.

Well hand him the dice!

Which storm was the last George special?  I think that's the one that utterly failed?  Don't remember.

This is DAY 5, and the day we needed to see the trends evolve the right way. 

We trend.

Big ol' cutter for the long weekend on the GFS.  I know it's a billion years away in model time but:

1) Cutters seem to verify like every time

2)It's been on the charts for many cycles already.  

I suppose we are due for one, but it will be a pack killer.