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I've been riding primarily at stewart this winter, will be heading down to westchester tomorrow with the fatbike. How are the trails at graham hills? If no good how about blue?
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masterofnone The Westchester county trails are not ride-able =ice and mud.
check the forums at www.wmba.org for further details.
We'll appreciate if everyone would stay off of them till they dry up,.. Thanks.
check the forums at www.wmba.org for further details.
We'll appreciate if everyone would stay off of them till they dry up,.. Thanks.
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Ok, thanks for the reply. Guess im going back to stewart again.
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I stopped by graham hills and took a walk, there are just as many soft squishy spots as dry ones. There were a few ruts from riders that morning, so i decided to head back up to stewart. In a week or two they might be ready.
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Snow yesterday was soft, i was able to find a handful of trails with just enough firmness for fat tires, but it's softening up quick. I would imagine after today it might be unrideable. Even the exposed patches of dirt road are leg sapping soft.
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Waaah 
Go earlier in the morning while it's still frozen and then Woooohooooo ooooo :eekster::crazy: What a super sillious fun ride we had this morning :thumbsup::cornut: The woods are such a great place to be in the winter and in the woods around here it is still winter much to my surprise. There was a minimum of 6" and up to a foot in spots with very few bare spots, especially above 700 feet, there are some torched out zones but almost no mud at all. I think because we had a dry late season last year and then the ground mostly froze so all the winter moisture is just running off the frozen ground.
The trail was pretty icy in spots but nothing too terrible and everything else was a super supportive crust with an extremely high traction surface. It was actually more pleasant to ride off the "trail" because it was smooth and higher traction so we played with all sorts of terrain features and rolled through places you would never go into on foot which was really cool. We rode about 5 miles with probably 1200 feet of climbing in 2.5 hours so slow going but oh so super fun.
Sorry no pics, forgot to charge the phone last night
Now I'm going to have some ice cream :icecream:
Go earlier in the morning while it's still frozen and then Woooohooooo ooooo :eekster::crazy: What a super sillious fun ride we had this morning :thumbsup::cornut: The woods are such a great place to be in the winter and in the woods around here it is still winter much to my surprise. There was a minimum of 6" and up to a foot in spots with very few bare spots, especially above 700 feet, there are some torched out zones but almost no mud at all. I think because we had a dry late season last year and then the ground mostly froze so all the winter moisture is just running off the frozen ground. The trail was pretty icy in spots but nothing too terrible and everything else was a super supportive crust with an extremely high traction surface. It was actually more pleasant to ride off the "trail" because it was smooth and higher traction so we played with all sorts of terrain features and rolled through places you would never go into on foot which was really cool. We rode about 5 miles with probably 1200 feet of climbing in 2.5 hours so slow going but oh so super fun.
Sorry no pics, forgot to charge the phone last night
Now I'm going to have some ice cream :icecream:
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nice
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Lets do it! 8:30am tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at Cranberry Mt (Patterson.) FKNA awesome crust should be ripe for the unzipping! I'm coming to get ya Crusty :devil::devil:
Fatty fun ride - all are welcome!
eh, not really W'chester, closer to Duchess but whatever. Come out and play with me
Fatty fun ride - all are welcome!
eh, not really W'chester, closer to Duchess but whatever. Come out and play with me
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Weeeee... :lol:
I'm gonna be so bummed when Crusty the Clown leaves. It's too much fun out there right now.
I'm gonna be so bummed when Crusty the Clown leaves. It's too much fun out there right now.
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would rather be riding...but..some of us have day jobs :madman:
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yeah I got lucky this week. My days off are Sunday and Tuesday, both mornings were cold and crusty. Heheh, my wife thinks I'm nuts looking forward to more cold and going out to play in it.
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We got some local riding action Monday early, then went to work. Krusty phenomenon was on!
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