mreaves

I have tomorrow off and will be riding. Not my sled but am lucky to be able to access one.

Looks like about an inch of snow overnight. I guess I missed that in the forecast.

40.8°/30.7° here.

If that’s it, it was sprinkles mixed with flurries.

Glad you had a god time. I was in New Brunswick riding last week and had a great time. Until Friday morning when I went out to start packing the truck and found no trailer. The trailer and sleds were stolen overnight. The recovered the trailer later that day and have since recovered one of the sleds. Luckily the sleds were fully insured but its a bit of a pain in the ass.

How was the Gaspe? I've heard the north shore is excellent right now and while the south shore is fine, there is a noticeable difference in snow amounts this year.

I’d like to see what @powderfreakgets for liquid equivalent in a core sample. Until Friday night, there just hadn’t been much for qpf in the pack. Not that a warm Rainer wouldn’t cause issues, especially with the amount of ice on the rivers but I think we have some liquid storage capacity right now.

Similar here. The intangible for me is the lack of qpf. Until last Friday/Saturday there wasn’t much meat in the pack.

Ooh, maybe @Chrisrotary12and I can get a tee time for sometime next week.

You crushed me with your flurries.

They have to wait at least 7 days from filing the claim to proceed with any payout. I guess that is in case they turn up. I have options for riding from friends who have spare sleds and VAST has sleds I can borrow. It's just a pain in the rear end.

I would have like to have seen even a little but the beefy 7.5" we got Friday night was great for the trails. Or at least I assume it was since I can't get out on them without sleds

(Root) Beer?

I’ve missed having your pictures posted regularly.

I drove through from Bethel to Holton and back this week and was surprised about the relatively low snow pack in a lot of the state. Trail crossings were beat in a lot of places. I didn’t ride in Maine but just across the border in NB, the trails east of the St. John’s valley were in nice shape but the locals were saying it was somewhat low compared to normal. The trails along the river were pretty thin.

I have friends who were scheduled to fly from Presque Isle, ME to Boston and in the New Orleans Monday. The Boston flight has already been canceled and they’ve been rebooked out of Bangor Monday afternoon.

We had three great days of riding. You couldn’t have asked for better weather. Tuesday, my son and I were on our own and we got a late start. I foolishly forgot my boots at home and the closest place to get some was a Walmart half an hour away. I ended up getting a pair on clearance for $45 CDN. We did about 80 miles on our own that afternoon. We were in NB for a meeting of the snowmobile associations from the Northeast states and provinces and had organized rides on Wednesday and Thursday. There were 40+ sleds both days and we did 105 and 115 miles on those. The rides were surprisingly well run for being such a large group. Nobody broke down or ended up in the pucker brush either day. Lol. The crew from Snowtrax TV was there filming the first day. I guess it will be featured on final episode of the season in March.

2014 900 ACE Grand Touring and a 2017 900 ACE Blizzard that I had just picked up in December. I went out to start packing the truck for the return trip and it was gone. I had attended a function at the main hotel and returned around 10:00 pm. So between then and 8:00 am is when it happened. It was parked maybe 50 feet from our room. I had a hitch lock on it. That was laying in two pieces on the ground. They somehow snapped or cut it in two without waking us. The picture below is what it looks like.

Luckily it happened after our riding was done for the week. The sleds are fully insured so I’ve already filed claims. The RCMP found the trailer abandoned so I am picking that up right now and will bring it home empty.

My wife reported about 6” a few hours ago. It looks like snow is possible a couple of more times this week. I’m going to warn you all now to expect near record snowfall over the next few weeks, my snowmobiles were stolen in New Brunswick yesterday so I’m sure a record breaking snowfall is about to come along.

Another beautiful winter day east of New England.

Wow. The high at home was 33.6° and here in County adjacent New Brunswick it was similar but there was also a surprise 3”-4” in the hills east of the St. John River. It’s been a great couple of days riding.

I thought @Damage In Tollandwas going to hit him with the old “What in Sam hell?”

I know you want a dry spring but speaking as a member of my village’s water district board, I want qpf. I’d like it in the form of snow to add to a relatively dry pack but if it’s raining in spring, we’ll just have to do that. Whatever it takes to keep our water levels up.

I’m not really north of the border this week, more like east of the border in New Brunswick doing some snowmobiling. There is ok snow, better as you get higher in elevation. Still decently wintry overall.