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Day 3, left Grand Vallee and backtracked on 5 to 597 down to Murdochville. Trails in really nice shape! This part of the Gaspe wins for the most snow award. Lunch in Murdochville then continue down 597 and Piston Alley, all groomed up nicely to 5 again.

Day 1: today went from Amos up to Matagami total miles 253. Great trails the whole way fast running made the miles go by very quickly. Had lunch up there at a nice little restaurant. Met a couple from Ontario heading up to Matagami as well so we all rode up together got to love the snowmobiling community!

Good morning Lamarche

Here the a music video of this ride. I made a test on this one and film/process the whole video in 2k 30fps in place of 1080p 60fps, seems to improve the quality a bit on the net. So crank up the sound and the quality to 2k and enjoy the ride 🍿🍿🍿

Did you guys cause this?

Today rode West on 83 to Auberge Presbytere for breakfast. 83 West was awesome. Spent the day just riding 83, 23 and especially 383. Stopped at Relais La Genouille, pretty good sled club. All trials awesome. Unfortunately, when we got back to the Dela it was 35 degrees. Snow getting soft and bare spots worse, Calling for rain on Friday. Not sure I'd rec coming up this weekend. Was 4 days riding worth 2000 miles drive from Pittsburgh? YES. Heading home tomorrow.

Wed at Otis Nature trails varied today 373 rough in spots lots of use on it. still much more better than terrible. It’s all riding limited internet here Today’s run 210 miles

Looks like you chose the right area to ride. I should have listened to you and come up. Have fun. But don't break down, those Alibiti wolves are hungry this time of year. mike

Day 5. Today we started our way back to our starting point. It’s going to take four days and another 720 miles to get back. Woke up to 5° below zero and finished the day 25° with sunshine all day. We took a beautiful side trail today to add another 15 miles to the ride so it was 190 miles today. 

Today seemed to stay below the freezing mark making a nice ride today with lots of sunshine. Getting out of town is getting somewhat bad but still doable. Few miles out and things change drastically for the better. I am guessing there are some loops I won't try as those close to the St. Lawrence may or may not be good. And trails around Club Hiboux showed closed. Just sticking to the southerly trails where I know its really nice.

My new SkiDoo gauge shows me going down a waterway and shows red and green buoys. And it keeps beeping telling me to put on my life jacket.

Well if NoHair is round.... http://quebecrider.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2024_02/image.png.4b5bf13c43aef865a447bf015112f14e.png He'll get a new Hat! GutZ

Hey was hoping one of you ran out of gas or had to stop for a nature call😅

Glad your having a great time Alex. Keep the pictures coming. I'm gonna mow the lawn tomorrow.

It was an awesome ride and great meeting you and riding together hopefully we will cross paths again !!

Just under 400k of carpet yesterday with the exception of a few k of logging road between Sennetterre and lac fillion and plowed road near the b blizzard (sp) outfitter place that is closed.

I was thinking about Lac Moreau, I had forgotten about Trout lake. They were kinda ball busters too, but it was a sweet place. Funny story. About ten years ago we stopped and ate there not knowing they mostly cater to reservations with full package only, so it wasn’t cheap and the food was pretty bad. As we left I asked about gas. It was waaaaayyyyy over priced, and I mentioned it, but needed it so we paid….So off we go back to the trucks. Long story short we went the wrong way for about an hour before realizing the mistake we had made. So we ended up back at his gas pump for another round a couple hours latter. The guy laughed a little when he said that I liked his gas so much I came back for more…lesson learned, never run your lips to the guy with the gas, no matter how bad he gouges you.

le hiver cest pas fini.

On dirait que c'est l'hiver.👍

The good ole ball buster… Le Balbuzzard Sauvage. Only the second place I know of that makes you take your boots off to come inside. Funny now that I think of it, the other place is also a log cabin. How is the snow depth between Faillon and Clova? Think it can survive another warm spell?

That's no joke-we had one jump off the trail in front of us on railbed N. of Temiscamingue once then he hopped right back on behind the last guy & loped along behind us!

Not guilty

glad you guys had a great day. And ditto what Mikerider says.

Day 2 Tuesday Woke to beautiful cold morning after awesome night at Pouvoirie La Dore. Great stay had great conversation with Owner Stephane super nice guy. Big chalet with four bedrooms nice fun. Terrain here is big i think their territory stretches 20 miles. 18 chalets and big fishing and hunting for bear, moose and caribou. Lake trout and brook trout. 8 miles out trail to TQ93 trail groomed into pouvoirie with small drag but real good. TQ93 has been groomed north he has not returned south. It’s beautiful all the way to local trail to Resto du Chef. Saw 2 sleds north bound direction Chibougamau. Been very little traffic few here and there but very spread out. Bingo that is the plan. Good old fashioned trail bingo. Here in the honey hole. I got all day to go nowhere. Destination St Felicien tonight and we will be in the vincinty all day. And now please stand by for a Public service announcement. Everyone please continue to circulate only on the Blue federal trails as you are now. We thank you all for you continued cooperation in helping us enjoy the other trails privately without undue, unnecessary, excessive traffic. Thank you for the support. Say it with me or even better sing it out loud. B I N G O……B I N G O Up down over back up down over up back around all that. And is awesome. One after the other Please sir may i have another? Yes you can. Late lunch Resto du Chef then then another 80 miles into hotel the BINGO way. Saw Mother Lynx with kitten. On TQ93 west of Lac a Jim. Leisurely strolling together right off side of trail. We will keep on going. One day at a time. Headed for Otis Nature via 373 and some bonus honey hole action. Well oiled machine here. Great bunch of riders. 206 miles of 8/10 to 10/10 all damn day (r.i.p. Big) Corral full and overflowing here at Du Jardin. Hotel full tonight. Ordered dinner from Restaurant Mikes.

Day 2: just did some loop trails around in Amos and ventured to new areas, I haven’t been then headed out towards La Sarre trails overall are great what a nice area for riding. This morning there was a nasty freezing mist, but after lunch, the skies cleared up and made for some true Quebec beauty! 280 miles today good day!

We wondered what would happen if we ran out of gas/broke down & he came along-big/black & nasty 2" fangs!

At least you get to wear knit slippers that thousands of others wore. At least the last time I was there.

That is another one!

Lac Truite ?

Baie Trinite and Point-Cartier

Thanks for the write up and pics, I know it's time consuming, but greatly appreciated!

Not guilty

Looks better than I thought it would. Glad your getting some quality seat time Mike!

Yes it was great meeting you as well. Hope the ride to Quévillon went well.

Yes the camaraderie and Canadian hospitality is like no other sport ...a few weeks on the trail always feels like coming home for the holidays

Been in this parking lot many times, I assume the supermarket ride to this hotel is all black...lots of great side trails in this area that go 25 miles to dead ends...have a great ride back...a week is too short...you are just really starting to enjoy it...then life calls you back!!

Would like to take the GF from Pointe a la Croix-Matane-Baie Comeau- Sept Iles-Godbout-Matane-Relais LaCache-PALC.. You guys are making it sound very doable as far as conditions are concerned. I really like from BC to Sept Iles, it's a great and fun run.

Alain, thank you for your report. What a crazy season for snow.

As always, thanks for great report and pictures. It's nice to see that there are some good trail conditions. We wer up in riviere du loup 2/3-2/7/24, trails were very good. Pictures are on 2/4/24 on the sentier haricana (orange 🍊 trail) out of rdl.

One of my favorite traits of all time