Things could be better. Things could be worse. It is the “back 9” of winter and we are now getting into the final weeks of the season. Will it end in early March like the last two years? Or will we ride into mid to late March like 2018 and 2019? I can’t answer this

No changes to the forecasted snow for tomorrow. I had thought about being cute, but there is just too much uncertainty how far north the sleet line gets and how much it knocks down accumulations. Plus I had a wide enough range on this forecast to cover all possibilities… and the storm is moving so

The hurt ends with the cold front this morning bringing Upstate NY from the 50s back down to the reality it’s February, NOT April. There is a fair amount of territory that has lost all base and all snow cover at this time, lots of water, lots of mud. Today will be the chance for

Hehehehe WIPEOUT! It’s ugly right now. It’s gonna be VERY ugly this afternoon and this evening. There will be more WIPEOUTS and major issues on the trails before things get better in the next few days. Glub glub… Someone unplug the tub! Yep. No way out of this one. 1″+ of rain on top of

The hurt, then the hope. While overall this forecast is a good and optimistic one, the next 48-60 hours will just flat suck. THE HURT Warmth and breezes already kicking in and temperatures later this President’s Day will fly WELL ABOVE FREEZING. This is going to open up a lot of the water issues left

SNOW! We will have accumulations in the coming hours! Some areas by tonight could have several inches of snow, especially downwind of Lake Erie and especially Lake Ontario! Considering the terrible position we were in after the Thursday WIPEOUT for most of Upstate NY, this is the beginning of the rebuilding. If only for a

With apologies for the delay in getting the reports out, day 3 was the longest and best ride of the entire trip with two of the best people in the world to do it with! Darrin Harr from ILSNOW.COM and Darrin Harr the son, 23, made the two hour drive from Indian Lake to bring

Monday was Valentine’s Day. I was apart from my wife for the first time since we met, and Zack was away from his better half in South Carolina for their first Valentine’s Day. Both the ladies in our lives are very loving, understanding and forgiving of us. They know how much snowmobiling means to us

For the first time in nearly two years: A RIDE REPORT! After church (Faith), myself, Zack and Mike Spadaro hatched a plan to see how Penn Mountain and Ohio looked. We agreed on the time and met up just after 1 PM with an old Polaris (Zack), a 2005 MXZ 550 (literally like riding my