Check your antifreeze and battery, and change your oil to a cold-weather grade. Also check the air in your tires regularly during cold spells, as the tires tend to deflate. Strange as it may seem, don t forget your sunglasses. The sun reflects brilliantly off white snow a potential hazard to your eyes. When the winter snow melts, mud grows long before the flowers do.
Conditions can be rather yucky, so bring along boots.
April is the yuckiest month, and at times, the cruelest. There are some 26 species of blackflies found in the Adirondacks, but you need be aware of only two. There is the mid-May to early June fly, Prosimulium mixtum , and the one that appears from May to early July, Simulium venustum . Fortunately, only female flies bite about half the population. Unfortunately, the bite is nasty and draws blood.