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Yeah we've gone a few times, it's only 10 minutes from the house. You got a good night for it. We've had two rounds of heavy rain now, everything is soaked again. I got out for a great ride in between, the ground was wet but not too soft and the trails were fresh from the super heavy rain from round 1, It really was great.

The thing is when you're driving and can't see much because it's raining so hard you don't know what's about to happen until it happens. It's not like you're going to stop and sit in the road waiting for the heaviest rain to pass and you can't really just pull into someones driveway so you keep going.

It rained so hard in Middlebury VT today the storm drains were overflowing. I drove through water on the road so deep and fast moving it went completely over my car. Submarining at 40mph is pretty cool

Local stations are all between ~1.2 and ~1.7 so far and it's still coming down steadily. Some of the downpours were rally heavy, my garden took a beating The sun will come out... Saturday? I just want Sunday to be nice at Citi Field.

Alright enough already. Can someone turn the wind off...

Yup it's nice out in an early October or mid April kind of way. The wind is doing a great job of drying out the surface too.

A wet week ahead? Some of the big time dark places I've been around the continent have been pretty impressive. The deep desert and the Yukon/NW Territories are unbelievably dark and have some of the most incredible night skies you can imagine. I camped out at a bunch of Anasazi ruins around AZ when I lived down there and they were crazy dark if it was cloudy, can't see your hand in front of your face kind of dark when you're out in the open.

Wow the humidity really dropped, down to 50% and still dropping. Gonna have to get off my bum and go do something.

If you want an on again off again challenging trail sort of close to home try the loop around the lake there. Some of it is just simple doubletrack work roads but there are super tight and techy narrow bits and some of the mud holes are impressive. As mentioned above, don't forget the tick spray. The views are worth the effort Nice but really warm and humid day going on out there. I hope that's not the theme of the summer.

I was up in the 'Daks and Plattsburgh yesterday. It was cool and very early spring like up there, above ~1k it's just turning into spring now. The trees are just leafing out and from all the rain everything is soggy(er than here). When we finished tiding yesterday in Ausable Chasm area the storm rolling off the mountains were inspiring, deep scuds dropping everywhere and they were black as night and the outflow front was impressive. Good Stuff! Did it rain down here yesterday? What about earlier today, by the time I got home around 7 it was nice out. @Juliancolton did you get rain this afternoon? I rode at Lake Tagkhanic State Park and it was dry while riding but radar looks like it got wet after I left there. BTW if you get to check out the trails there do it, it's a nice long loop around the lake with some interesting spots and conditions along the way. Bring tick spray

Looks like those showers that were going to ruin the afternoon aren't going to be a factor

Well, we got 25 hours into the month. That's a pretty good stretch without rain.

26! Another superb bug year The mold and mildew is pretty impressive too.

Holy heavy rain Batman! I don't often get woken up by rain but geez that was really something.

I gave up on nearly all organized sports years ago. I barely pay attention to the pro levels of the sports I do partake in. I enjoy watching pro tennis, play golf but get bored watching it and sometimes I'll watch a bike race but more to see the area they're in than because I give a hoot about the race. Competitive skiing is fun to watch but most other winter sports bore me. Basically I like the individual sports and team sports are annoying. Not much rain here, the ground is pretty much dry under the trees.

Yup high 60's-70 are just about perfect for a ride so that's what I did Unfortunately we chose a place that got hammered by those tornadoes last year and it was still a mess of downed trees and badly overgrown trails I assume because they're blocked further up and not being used much anymore. I'm going to have to apply for permission to go in and do some cleanup work, these are trails I helped build ~20 years ago when nobody around here rode mt bikes yet.

True but it still goes down as a rain day in the total count and it keeps soil moisture up. This month has been weird though as we've had 19 days with rain but the ground surface has mostly dried out. The wind has helped a lot and the trees leafing out seem to have sucked up a lot more than I thought they would a month ago. Trail.comditions are awesome around the area right now.

So I'm at 19 or 20 out of 23 days so far this month have been wet at some point in the 24 hour period and April was 22 of 30. I'm really tired of it but on the upside the forest has really stabilized and for the most part there is very little mud out there. The ground has this wonderful resilience to it and the trails are in fine shape which makes the mountain biker in me very happy. @Hitman we need to coordinate and ride some time soon, me and my e-mtb are enjoying the heck out of our time together in the woods.

Alright so all it's going to take this year is a tropical system or two to annihilate last years record rainfall totals. I wonder if last year also had a record number of days with measurable rainfall, I bet we're on track to break whatever the old record is. I'm at 18 of 20 days this month and last month was 22 of 30, I didn't count the winter months but should have and I don't feel like going back to do the research now.

I got some pretty serious rain a few times tonight. The most recent batch was hardcore enough that it woke me up with thunder and lightning. It looks like the earlier round was more significant north of here. There's another round incoming that looks like another soaker.

I haven't ridden out there at all yet but will at least a few times this year now that I have a few solid accounts out that way. The Fingerlakes area has always intrigued me so I'm looking forward to it. I have a thing with my wife next weekend but don't remember which day but yeah, let me know when you're riding and if I can I'll meet up. Yup this bike is silly good fun, I was giggling the whole time once I got used to the extra weight.

I drove right past the school while it was going on to visit the bike shop up the hill from the campus. Wouldn't it have been funny if we had run into each other there rather than on the mt bike trails here? When are we going to ride? I finally got my e-mtb so can ride again and complete the heart attack recovery on my own terms.

Boy it was nice to get out in the woods today. Soil moisture is super high but there was surprisingly little mud after all the rain we've had the last 45 days.

I made a run out Rt 17 (I can't seem to call it I86 yet) to Corning yesterday and saw some super heavy rain in the morning then temps over 80 in Binghamton in the afternoon. On the way home there was an absolutely awesome rainbow filling my windshield for about an hour as I was following the rain through Orange County to the Bear Mountain Bridge. Looks like we may end up with a dry weekend for a change

Did anybody see how much snow they're going to get out west? Geez... I saw low 70's today, did anybody get to 75?