mreaves

27° and just enough snow to cover the patches of ice left in the driveway.

Yeah, I was contemplating heading to Maine for their free weekend but even though the snow won’t be completely gone the trails likely won’t be worth a long drive. Changes plans and are now heading to Ottawa to catch the Rangers vs the Senators. Not a fan of either team but the NHL is usually entertaining and tickets were pretty inexpensive.

That actually looks like snow at the stake.

Not the ski area but this was Stowe last Friday.

Yeah but 800,000 years is really just a blip in the entire history of the planet.

I was snowmobiling up in the NEK Saturday at that seems about right at elevation there too.

Toying with the idea of heading to the Forks for the weekend. I know this warm up won’t wreck the base but do you think it may be rock hard ice with no snow for cooling?

Proof that AI isn’t all knowing yet!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ambient-weather-network/id1426025887

-7.9° Last below zero for the season I would imagine.

In VT, it’s a combination of local club fundraising and grants from VAST. The money to fund the grants comes mostly from the trail passes sold to riders. There is a large range of grooming equipment, from new Tuckers and Pisten Bully’s to ultility sleds with drags. You are correct, costs are a huge issue for us. VT is a little unique in that we are a private non-profit while other states have various degrees of state involvement/support. Either way, local clubs still provide the largest majority of work on trails and grooming support. While may we lack financial support from State government, we do have direct support from the highest levels in VT. This was from Friday after a ride from Morrisville to Stowe.

That's part of the reason that having the free weekends separate in each state is a good thing. There is only one trail from NH to Rangeley and they couldn't keep up with it when there was so much traffic. Now people can go to each state when they want to try it out.

I told you! The only time I've ridden there was when I was buying a sled. It was insane and the trails were mush.

I am contemplating heading to Maine next weekend for non-resident snowmobile weekend.

The app is decent. The graphs on the app look exactly like the desktop version, which I've pasted below.

I have an older version of this one. It’s worked well for the 3 or 5 years I’ve had it. https://ambientweather.com/ws-2902-smart-weather-station?_gl=1*moug8s*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSi1DxZHfVbYS2Hm6LVIBWjz-zS5KlWHVtIyxicSeKA9w9D2huohcRgaAsJpEALw_wcB&gbraid=0AAAAAD_pbGfHP62-2k9j_eljCxFAnTzKk

I don’t use it either. The number of times I forgot to unplug while getting off the sled was just stupid and annoying. I rarely have an issue anyway.

My gloves have a “squeegee” on the index finger. It couldn’t keep up.

Did you guys ride back in heavy, wet snow? We did about 100 miles in the NEK today and about 30 of those were in wet snow that kept making it hard to see. Constantly wiping my shield. Trails were nice. Lots of snow up there.

Holy crap. I guess they were lucky. I can’t believe he could hike back up with investigators this week.

About 1800’ I think. It’s a beautiful area and a great rec resource for people.

Usually it’s the traffic into Rangeley that’s the issue. I may be in the NEK tomorrow not likely to cross the river but you never know.

Lol. Up here the countdown to golf is usually closer to May 1

The lone trail from Rangeley traditionally gets absolutely whooped this weekend.

No snow here either. Got to take our governor out for a ride today in PF’s area. He had a good time. Welp, looks like I need to delete some old pics before I can add anymore.