If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Shawangunk Snow, and Lapland Lake Report
First, the Shawangunks still have a good base after the rain that hit much
of the mid-Atlantic east yesterday. Here at 300 feet there is plenty base. Probably the xc ski areas need some fresh snow on top, or need to find trails that they haven't groomed yet in order to mine the powder beneth. I doubt there will be skiing here this weekend. But then too, it is possible that Minnewaska will try to break stuff up for skating by dragging something around. At Lapland Lake today the racer type skiers were frustrated. Classic could have been good if the trail was packed before the track setting sled set tracks. But the tracks were off to the side of the trail and often canted, and to the side snow packed by the weight of the snowmobile. The tracks looked nice, but for the first couple of times around I was basically walking. Still it was nice to be in a snowy forest in comfortable temperatures. Then it came together as other skiers and time consolodated things. Weird and tough wax. Klister would have been slow even with hard wax over it. Shearing was a problem. 1c and snowing hard. Couldn't get anything to work for kick until I covered with Start Tar zero. Then no glide until it got colder? Weird. Got in 4.25 hours of level two. Skaters found narrow trails that were lumpy and in need of grading. Not enough snow for snow cat grooming I assume. Maybe they don't have grading equipment for their snowmobiles.Significantly less trail tracked than advertised. Early season skiing that could have been better if grooming had been attended to, but also could have been way worse than it was. I'd think that more effort will be put into grooming for this weekend. A good bet for this weekend I'd say. I heard that Prospect didn't groom at all for today. If true, then maybe they just got too much rain. Their website, when I last checked hadn't been updated in the last couple of days. Hey, it's mid-December. Gary Jacobson Rosendale, NY |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Shawangunk Snow, and Lapland Lake Report
"Gary Jacobson" wrote in message .. .
At Lapland Lake today [snip] Significantly less trail tracked than advertised. This is a key oberservation. JT |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|