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Someone loved her first time ever to a Pourvoire

Drove up from Vt to Forestville Sunday and met up with Roadrunner our friends from Maine . Left this morning on rock hard local trails towards Chenail du Nord After a quick stop we're off to the Pipmuacan Reservoir. Dropped on down to pourvoirie Itouk to say hi to Luc the place was rocking on a sunny Monday afternoon ! Next stop La Chapelle then off to Km31 for the night . 215 miles for the day Was awesome this morning to see and chat with Trailblazer in Forestville and meeting Linda sled girl here at the 31 ! Tomorrow, we'll see .

Have you ever tasted a Red Champagne in Saguenay Lac St-Jean? It’s a locally made soda. It’s really good and reminded me of strawberry 🍓 soda. Anyway, as I was asking what it was like, a man told me this is what you want to drink when you’re hungover! Always Good to know 😂

Day 4 Monday Great night as usual with the gang here at Pouvorie La Dore. Gonna get up here this summer for a weekend for sure. Said goodbye to our new friends. They are very excited as soon they will get their one month break in April before starting season in May. Been a busy winter with advertising on I motoneige. Was a good move. Little colder thus morning making it comfortable in the gear. Seeing some grooming near restaurant du chef. Out to TQ93 and back to orange to Chef. Sweet grooming here. White asphalt. Gas at chef for the last time this season. Continue on still beautiful here groomed right to bridge on TQ93. Up TQ93 to 373. Getting used up in spots for sure. Seeing more and more ground less snow. Still good bit of nice trail. After one road crossing the Mrs is shooting wicked snow from right ski. We stop and it’s the curse of Bullwinkle. Rock jammed in snow tracker. We get sled tipped up, got the Mrs holding it while I try to extract the rock, rubber mallet and leatherman tool get er done. 373 across to TQ93. Up to Girardville still cooler today have seen no sleds. Just at turn for Girardville one sled. Ruins our no sled day. We decided to go see if relais Lac des Coudes was open for lunch but got nothing more than a small bonus ride up and back. Closed on Monday. 2pm at truck we decide we will sleep at home tonight, so it shall be. Great few days on great trails. Not as nice trail as last week here but very nice. So this year Caro saw three regions different. Escoumins in January, February saw her in RDL first time there and then to the Honey hole in LSJ and the Oasis in La Dore. Solid rider and gaining experience each day. She learned how to get rock out of Snow tracker. And put her first middle rider in the bushes. Sweet ride back to Home. Great time. Dry road.

Day 3 Sunday Decided to shake things up today as we headed to the relais Lac des Coudre just north of Girardville for breakfast. It was great. Today we are going to Pouvorie La Dore. But as usual in a roundabout way. Decided to fill in the bingo a bit with center orange and west side orange then TQ93 back towards La Dore. Some traffic but light. Saw 17 sleds all day. Trails holding up nice in spots but by late afternoon very soft and the big sun taking its toll. With the exception of Friday when we got here and trails were concrete and very icy. I have had the Mrs. leading and she is doing fantastic. I want her to read the trail adjust for conditions and navigate. She is good. I am having her check signs at intersections and tell me which way we want to go. Then when we return through an intersection from another direction i ask her if she has been here before if she doesn’t recognize it straight off. All in all great experiences. Not to mention her pictures. Today we wind our way to La Dore stop for gas and supplies and head toward our destination on TQ93 Getting close to the end between La Dore and intersection with orange trail to resto du chef on TQ93 powerlines. Lots of mud and rocks here. TQ93 still nice up to entrance to Pouvorie. We are minding our business heading in this feeder to Pouvorie. Its small in spots and tight. Around corner comes this guy riding like he is all alone. Right on a corner. Right turn for Caro left for him. She is as far right as possible like always. He is right up the middle. He was more scared than her. He missed her. I immediately radio, watch out he is surely not alone. Here comes the girlfriend following. She aint got the same skills. I see her eyes from behind Caro. Big saucers. She swerves from middle to the right, ski goes off on corner and she pins the gas and hits the tree. Bang stuck there. Luckily it was only minor damage no one hurt. Caro has stopped around corner and is asking me if she did anything wrong. I told her absolutely not. You cannot ride the middle like they did and luckily she hit tree instead of you. Almost taken out by nonsense. Innocent victim. But that is every trail everywhere. I help the guy pull her out some plastic broken, but no mechanical issues. He says merci. Yeah ok. 👍 Onward to Pouvorie it’s a bit in her head now as she still is questioning if she did something wrong. Told her repeatedly you did nothing wrong. You were on your side and they were not. Chalk it up as first one you ran into the sticks. It happens. Arrive at the Oasis and tabernac still alot of sleds here at 4pm. Say hello to Stephane and gang, busy with the crowd. We head to chalet and have happy hour on the deck outside. Real nice. We have company for dinner 6 locals from their camps nearby are here too. Stephane gave us some homemade dry sausage wow really good. Caro tried the dried Bear meat sliced right from hind quarter but was not for her. Thats ok more for me. After pine liquor shooters then back to chalet where we take time to sit outside and just admire the sky. Unbelievable the stars it’s totally clear and beautiful. Another successful day.

Jeff, season is done unless you want to drive the truck to one of 3 locations. 1 Sept Isles 2 Chibougamau 3 La Chapelle parking lot How did the Kashima coated shocks work on the front of your enduro this year? Looked like a pretty sweet set up

Way behind on my report. Had some interesting events in the last 2 days. Will get all tyoed up for you tomorrow. Landed at truck 2pm. Loaded up. Stripped down to the Hypnose under gear. We R Trucking. 2:30 departure. Black trail to St Hubert Roberval. Then South bound for Shawinigan 155 dry and rolling on. Touchdown 6:55pm. When the black trail is dry you can make time up there. Nice to be home.

It is located in St Etienne des Gres not Trois Rivieres. It’s a new building right next to existing Dealer location. Been a BRP dealer there for a long time. Performance NC is a big group they took over around 2016. Now they are bringing in the BMW bikes as well to the new building.

Wow rode from Forestville the the Ferry in BC last night. Trails were good considering. There were a couple spots starting to bare up, certainly surprised it is showing yellow and red today.

Mrs. Ice is a great sport to share Mr. Ice's love of riding. I assume we will see lots of pics of Mr. Ice on a paddle board this summer.

Great write up and pics, thanks for taking the time! You did catch some good trail for sure. Unfortunately, more proof that every corner is a crapshoot, just hope the oncoming riders learned something too..

Guys are still riding there no problem. Thin in spots, others good.

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Day 2 Saturday Noticeably warmer this morning after a cold night. We headed out after breakfast in no hurry to go no particular place. We decided to follow the groomer for a bit. So from here down the TQ93 then to the 373 all of it mint. Groomer has broken up the majority of the ice and yes still some icy spots and the usual south and west facing full sun areas starting to melt through. This is end of March conditions on the 2 of March. That is this season. 373 across to TQ93 then down to orange trail through Site d’ours and over across river to Relais Buttes. Spent time talking with Gaetan there. Did you all know that the Relais closes all off season. It opens December 1 and he does Christmas parties for businesses then that carries him through until trails open. Then when trails are done so is the Relais. Interesting. Mrs Ice had the tomato and stars soup and she loved it. 2 other sleds here. So far we have seen about 15 sleds all morning. We say goodbye to Gaetan sadly I won’t be back this way (not in the plan) as it’s noticeable the difference just a little bit further south here. I am bailing back north. The good stuff is shrinking must stay north. Not un rideable at all, just not what we are looking for. Up 373 to TQ93 took the gas just to take it at La Dore’. We did not know it until Mrs Ice saw on FB we crossed paths with The Snow Traveler from FB as our radio conversations were intermingled with the open mesh. Wish i knew I would have loved to meet them. Maybe another time. Debated on next move but ran back on TQ 93 then over the famous bridge from last weeks run (Mark and Phil sr love this crossing) lol. Complete the loop passing orange trail again and its TQ93 to the river lookout. Had to take the paddle boarder to see this river. Nice break here coats off its warm but there is a cool breeze. Back up to the TQ93 and still great trails all good softening up now and real nice. Run to Lac a Jim here a late lunch. Took time to ask about summer and paddle boarding Lac jim is 10km so small by my Mrs paddle board standards. Few other sleds here but been pretty tame for a Saturday. Straight shot back to Home sweet home Girardville. All alone again private accommodations. Great relaxing day. We aint here to set no records. Going to take time to look around and see. Plenty of time for the mrs to take lots of pictures so enjoy them. Tomorrow we go on an adventure. Stay Tuned.

That's the first time I remember seeing Breakfast Poutine.

Facebook says they want to preserve the base through the warm spell. Will re-open if it snows.

Fantastic Dealership. Left my two 3 year old sleds at the time there during Plandemic No sledding season 2021. Went all through both sleds 10/10 service ! Even detailed them on their own. They Looked and performed brand new.

Tried it a few weeks ago .. awesome 👌

Sunday night looks to be pouverie La Dore. Lots of GPS pings in Pac Man mode devouring all the Honey Hole Regions sled trails last couple days. Fine excursion Team Mr & Mrs Ice.