Inspired by the Maine Wild Ice Skaters club on Strava, I created a new Strava club: Wild Ice Vermont and New Hampshire. If you’re on Strava, please join!
It’s a fantastic way to see exactly what people have been skating, their tracks, notes about ice conditions, and photos and videos of their skate.
I’ve also added both these Strava clubs to the Nordic Skating Groups page on here.
I skated the Green River Reservoir again today, briefly. It was still great. Definitely more snow than yesterday, but not much. The main body of the reservoir was getting pretty windswept and medium-sized grabby drifts were forming. The more sheltered areas were covered in light dry snow that was easy to skate through, and the ice was consistently good everywhere I went.
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I added an excursion to Schofield Pond to my day. I’ve been intrigued by it for years, and thought it would be fun to try to skate it. I couldn’t find any kind of trail, so I wound up bushwhacking from campsite 15.
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I’m told I erred in referring to the area near Lake Ninevah, in my last report, as “central Vermont”. My deepest apologies to all of you who live in the one true Central Vermont; I won’t make that mistake again!
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I skated Lake Ninevah yesterday, in Mount Holly, Vermont, just north of Ludlow. We don’t get a lot of reporting on central Vermont ice, so I wanted to be sure people knew about this one.
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Today I mountain biked in to Long Pond, in Benton, NH. The ice was excellent, thick black ice from end to end, though with lots of blemishes and some snowy areas.
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