Any word on the warm up on Sunday? Will we be spared?

I hope we get spared I plan on hitting the trails in Fairfax/ Fletcher Sunday... maybe I'll see you on the trails.

As it looks like now, rain almost all the way to the Canadian border

And in the 40s. But cold again by Monday.

anybody seen coles pond weather cam lately? if not all I can say is wow!
http://www.robertlyonsphotography.com/webcam/index.php

WCAX didn't look too promising today...

Where's the snow stick ? LOL

That really sucks, I guess I'll spend Sunday putting my studs on and ride Monday instead.

With the amount of snow on the ground, I dont think this rain will be crippling... If there were only 8 inches on the ground it'd be a different story. It'll really help firm up and pack things down and then with the cold weather coming afterwards it should get pretty solid.

Same shit diffrent year!

Different month too. It's only december and look at the snow we've got. Don't write off the season yet!

Makes a good base. to what we have now.

From what I've gathered from all the different weather sources,it IS going to rain on sunday,BUT....it may be just a light drizzel as of now....


I'm not worried at all,as whatever little rain we have on sunday is going to do nothing but HELP build/harden our base . A little rain o top od all this wonderful snow.....who could ask for anything better to build a base on !!! Just think,openning day,till closing day,wouldnt that be great ??!! A good base is needed for such a thing to happen,and I think we are on our way.............

This rain will do more good for the soft snow that is not packed all that good. It is going to get cold after monday and long term calls for snow Fri- Sunday of next week.

Hey Chris,

If you see (2) All Black Revs on the trails around Fairfax and Fletcher wave us down. We will be out today probably not Sunday.

Ride Safe!!

looks more like light rain in the afternoon, then getting colder overnight again, shouldn't be bad

I was out from 7 until around 9:30 this morning (my first time ever on the trails) but I only saw 5 other people, I think we are going to go riding Monday if you want to go... but I have to warn you I'm a rookie and I usually go pretty slow.

Sunday Night: Periods of rain showers before 1am, then snow showers likely. Low around 27. Breezy, with a south wind 26 to 29 mph becoming southwest 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

1 inch of rain would be bad. Hopefully some will be snow.

THe NOAA site says less than 1/2 " for central VT tommrow. I was out tonight, we coulduse a little moisture, the snow is getting blown off the trail in the corners. Forecast looks pretty pathetic all next week, highs in the mid thirties and a chance of mixed precip next Saturday.

Lets just hope that people are smart enough to stay off the trails today! The trails will be destroyed if they don't. Remember we have the whole winter ahead of us and we have been fortunate to be able to have such great riding this early in the season.

THINK SNOW!!!!

Well we didn't seem to get much rain last night, although it did slicken up the roads at about 2:00am. This would be a good base to groom, and some nice fresh snow on top would make it mint.

Forget the rain, we have a high wind warning for gusts of 50 - 70 mph. We need to worry about blowdowns now.

If there's too much snow, where you can't make your own trails in your backyard, i'm fine with some rain. Last year was terrible.

Cheating death so far, No wind and no rain...

It's been raining for a while now and it's definitely affected the snow. The wind is pretty nasty too.

Just looked at the Weatherchannel radar, and if we get what New York is getting, kiss the snow goodbye. It's supposed to be above freezing during the daytime for the whole week.
It's early, so we can still have a great season, even with a thaw.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Gonna change over later tonight and get colder, temps here in the NEK will be below freezing rest of week....

46º and pouring right now. There will be open water on the trails after this.

Yup, this is a kick in the nuts. 3 years in a row we have been F*cked. Its getting really pathetic. I agree riding could be terriable for a while
because of all this rain. Major washouts and waterbars everywhere now.

And no Storm's in sight!

the problem is first off people riding in the mush making slush and turning into runoff and first off we didnt have a great freeze before all this snow so the waterbars were already starting to open up yesterday and the rain is going to do more damage then we would have seen if we just had a solid frost or less snow for us to turn some off the wet areas up just a bit and freeze em up... hope for the best... and it could be a positive effect if they suddenly say its going to be 0 for the next 3 weeks with snow on the second week... seen it many times before we'll survive just spread the word to be nice to them when its about freezing!

The weather shows under freezing for the rest of the week with snow showers throughout the week so hopefully it'll be ridable still. Me and the wife are headed to Lyndonville Wed-Fri staying at the Lynburke Lodge, I hope it's still nice as it's our 1st trip up north.

good luck fukawi. right now the weather shows rain all the way up to canada. mother nature sure is being a total bitch. shes got some sand somewhere and shes taking it out on us. i hope your trip goes well, you might still be good since last i knew there was some good coverage up there...better than what weve got here at the lake and the wick...although gyp was riding tonight, yeah in the rain he was riding.

glad I got 200 miles on this weekend

I don't see this rain being a problem there was a shit load of snow where I was riding and the trails were mint.....


time will tell

Its hard as a rock out there now, bring on some snow

Hows the surface?? Is there any loose snow for cooling the sleds??? What is your damage assesment??

this makes me wanna cry

Damage assesment is right. I think there will be a ton of open water on the trails. This might take 2 weeks with some new snow to get back to decent shape.

Tell me about it. Less that a week ago they had 35". Lets just hope it compacted and now the snow will be around for 6 months.

This is only gona compact the snow and harden it up. Temps over the next few days will tell. Any snow on top of this will make it sweet!
Merry Christmas and happy trails

I just got back from Bolton (in my car), the fields in Richmond etc. showed a lot of frozen water. Its snowing here now at my house in S. Burlington. Not sure about the north or northeastern regions, anybody??? It looked like some of the cars up at elevations saw the rain turn snow overnight sometime but Robs webcam tells a story. The snow ruler was pegged a couple of days ago, with the settling and rain it looks like fifteen inches dissappeared in around 24 hours. Hopefully this sets up the trail??