by Gary Lee

Weather over the weekend wasn’t what snowmobilers or skiers wanted as it rained most of Saturday. They still had the drag races on Big Moose Lake that day.

They must have been ducking the hole left by the pick-up plow truck that was retrieved out of the lake on Tuesday by Morin’s Tow Service.

Saturday was a great day at VIEW for the Chili Bowl Luncheon as a steady stream of people came in.  Continue reading →

by Gary Lee

The east coast cities ducked another blizzard this week that had the potential to be worse than the storm of a couple weeks ago. Weathermen say it was like a winter hurricane that stayed out in the ocean and only brushed Long Island and Cape Cod.

There was some snow inland but not enough to stop the New Hampshire presidential primaries.  Continue reading →

Adult bald eagle

by Gary Lee

The coldest day of this winter may have passed us over the weekend as I had minus 44 degrees. Many said I read it wrong as it was a quick look and the power was out so I had to get the generator going.

We ran the furnace after the power was out from 4:30 to 5:30 that morning to take the chill off.  Continue reading →

Extreme Bubble Ball on the Fourth Lake ice

by Gary Lee

There are no big weather events crossing the country currently…unless you count the blizzard that’s hitting the Iowa Caucuses tonight. That will leave a few people with no place to go—including the politicians.

It looks like we are in for some rain this week, but what else is new in the north country this winter? Continue reading →

by Gary Lee

Did anyone see any snow over the weekend? While we didn’t see any around here, if you were south of Poughkeepsie to South Carolina you saw more than enough for two years.

Records were broken for snow totals in most of the major cities along the east coast and here we are making snow to ski on.  Continue reading →

Ausable Chasm

by Gary Lee

We have had a couple ups and downs weather-wise. First came the cold, then snow got things rolling. Then we had a warming trend with freezing rain and south winds that knocked back what snow we had.

Then we went back down to zero with a little more snow for the Martin Luther King holiday.

The free snowmobiling for the weekend deal got a lot of people out on the trails. They had many places right down to the dirt even before the warming temperatures came through. Continue reading →

Myself with a rescued loon & Patrick Duffy in a Gumby suit

by Gary Lee

The weather turned instantly to winter last week with a little snow to save the weekend for some outside winter sports.

With four days of below-zero temperatures, Tuesday morning, a chilly -22 here, quickly froze all the lakes that were still open the day before.

Normally, small, shallow lakes freeze first and then the bigger lakes fall in line. Seventh Lake and Blue Mountain Lake are  the last to freeze but these all buttoned up that night–a first by my records.  Continue reading →