Jackstraw
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3 hours ago, smclelan said:
Great thread, excellent pictures, thank you for bringing us all along.
It isn’t easy giving day to day reports, but I enjoy when others do also. Reading the journey from home wishing you where there!
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12 hours ago, smclelan said:
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Day 6
Last day here, time to head back to the trucks in Victoriaville. Up early for a 7:15 departure. 2” of new snow overnight. Off we go, within 10 miles of cabano snow gets deeper now close to a foot breaking trail on the rail bed. Awesome an unexpected powder day! Into the Tourville clubhouse for a late breakfast. Fresh snow levels drop as we head west from there. Little traffic and blue skies. Closer we get to to victoriaville obvious they got only rain. Trails still good and groomed last night. Into the hotel Le Victorian at 3:15 with 265 miles for the day. This area will be done shortly if no new snow. Awesome 1425 mile ride with a great bunch of guys! Looks to be my last ride this year but you never know! Great seeing groomer and Linda sled girl and Joel in Amqui. Mr and mrs gt rider, Mike rider and farmerold in RDL. Only issues where a blown belt and starter solenoid. Wrapping a rope around the clutch gets old! Hope you All enjoyed following along!
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Day5
woke up this morning not sure what the weather had in store for us. About 2” and snowing, this is good, no rain. Plan is moose valley for lunch. Take the local orange that takes you across lake humque instead of going up to st Irene. Snowing good and as you climb in elevation a good 6”. Absolutely beautiful! Lunch at moose valley and on towards Biencourt. No tracks heading that way see first sign biencourt to the right. Off we go, somethings not right, yep it’s a quad trail rut ro. No packed base. Not easy to turn 5 sleds around in deep snow. After an hour of digging out we get back to the trail and continue farther and find the right trail to biencourt. Continue on to Cabano for the night at motel Royal. 225 miles. Super wet snow all day , wiping the shield every 10 seconds. Last day tomorrow.
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2 hours ago, Fuse6 said:
Really enjoying the pictures Jack.
What did they serve for supper at LaCache. We stayed there one night a few weeks ago. Two pieces of homemade pizza is what we had. Was very good but that was it, nothing else was offered. The shower was not working in the motel building when we were there.
Justin was the young lad running the place when we were there. He was very helpful making some phone calls for us to Mont Joli to make arrangements to have my truck come rescue one of our group who sled chain case grenaded.
Josh was the one running the place when we where there. We had Chinese food that he made. Chicken fried rice, chicken balls and egg rolls. Certainly out of ordinary, but no complaints! We stayed upstairs, apparently the shower still doesn’t work in the motel section as the look on the beautiful young lady that came up to use the shower was surprised to see 5 guys sitting there in the common area next to the bathroom. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman take a shower and dress that quick! Lol!
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Day4
Today’s thought is Amqui . Dusting of fresh snow Last night and onto the 595 towards new Richmond. Freshly groomed last night and in stellar shape. About 20 miles out blown belt on one of the 850’s quick swap and a stop at the dealer in new Richmond for a spare. Tq5 also in top shape. Lunch in Carlton at the clubhouse. Temps ridiculously warm, trails holding up with lite traffic. Into the select hotel in amqui. 225 miles. Storm coming tomorrow, we will see what transpires in the morning. Only 2 pics today after yesterday’s photo Rama. Gotta keep the picture police happy! Lol!
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Day3
Today was one of the days you remember. Blue skies with the most scenic part of the gaspe ahead! Tq5 freshly groomed! Perfect all the way to Mt St Pierre. Hit all the overlooks, traffic low, never gets old! After Mt St Pierre tq 5 is pretty spanked all the way to the 597 to murdochville which is also in need of some tlc. Lunch at the copper. Thought was new Richmond but rooms all booked. Deceide on easy day into la cache on the orange trail which could also use some tlc for the night. 188 miles
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7 hours ago, doubler said:
Don't mean to be a jerk, but I see this far too often when I am riding so wanted to bring it up in hopes of making an impact. It seems like your crew is blocking the entire intersection in 3 of those pictures.
Pics can be deceiving. The one obvious one we where stopped for 2 min deciding left or right no one around. Other was a feeder trail. We don’t park and hang out in intersections. Not our first rodeo!
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10 hours ago, neksledr said:
Nice pics Jack, sounds like everyone is hitting Gaspe at the same time. Did you ever bump into the Mayor? He might have had some pull for you with dinner! Who wasn't looking in their rearview for Eric??
Kinda Eric’s fault, me and Phil left for the room to catch the sunset. Eric was still at the station with the other 2 but decided to catch up with us but was 2 late. The other 2 went a different way thinking Eric was with us. No real signage to the hotel either
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Day2
Woke up this morning to a fresh 5” of light fluff and still snowing. Early start today with the huge crowd here, want to beat the mass exodus of sleds. I’ve only been to the universal end of March. Good god this place was packed. Still a half hour wait for dinner at 8:30. Ordered a pizza and ate it in the room, no patience for that mess! Destination today was cap chat. Took the greens to tq35 which was absolutely stellar with the fresh powder on top. Lunch at relais st damas. On into motel nanook for the night. Other then losing Eric for an hour after fueling up and heading to the motel. Went back twice to the last place we where together to look for him. No sign. He went down a different feeder trail and got stuck. Good thing he was able to dig himself out as we never would have found him there as the sun was setting. Alls good now! Where to tomorrow? We shall see. 262 miles for the day
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Arrived at the Le Victorian in Victoriaville Friday afternoon. Same crew as a few weeks ago minus Momo. Figured we would try South of the Fluve for a change. Haven’t started this far west before and with the new snow we’d give it a whirl. Nice hotel, had the place to ourselves. Plan today was RDL. Fresh groomed tq 35 to Tourville for lunch. Ridiculous amount of sleds on the trails. Passed more sleds by lunch then the entire 1700 mile loop we did a few weeks ago. Relais in Tourville packed even at 1:30 took an hour and half to get outa there. From there to RDL combination of blues, greens and orange trails all showing wear from the heavy traffic. At the universal in RDL for the night and this place is packed! I do believe I’m parked next to mike riders sled out back. 254 miles for the day. Eastbound in the morning.
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10 hours ago, iceman said:
I have no idea, maybe it’s different now, when was that?
Jeepers
10 years ago!
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9 hours ago, iceman said:
26 February Wednesday
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now I am no mechanic but when the mechanic plugged in sled and ran , showing 32 output from Stator, he says supposed to be 55. Says stator is bad needs new one. Could be ok but not sure how long. Says when it quits it quits. Houston we got a problem. Now the dance begins. Here at Beric Sport in Val-d’Or the do not have the part. They call Seneterre, negative no part, no time to install anyway. Amos has the part. Amos has no time tomorrow or even friday to do job. Royaun Noranda no part.
here they can order part but with storm everything will get blocked in Montreal and they wont get parts delivery Friday morning maybe Friday afternoon so too late.
Then I ask why we cannot get part from Amos and have Val d’Or where sled is now put it in. Dealers cannot give each other parts they tell me. Everything needs to be ordered from Montreal when you need something. Maybe because of warranty claim? It is covered? Anyway ain’t happening. Mechanic boss says no time to do job anyway. They are short one mechanic and slammed with work. And we would have to go to Amos buy stator from there, $813 canadian. However when I asked how he gets the $813 from Bombardier back (since part is warranted) they said he probably would not get it. Anyway sorry if all that is confusing.
We bail out of there, to Gas Depanneur and return to hotel. A bit dejected after the sweet start we had. Now while Shawinigan should get a big dump of snow 30cm in 48hrs they say. Out here says 15-20cm. But with high wind and not much vis. Not sure it’s the best day to find out if the stator will last all day or not?
Tell me what would you do?
Go out into storm, take a chance it stays running
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me i sense the end of this run.
Might just need to wait out storm, head back Friday morning. Get BCX somewhere it will be fixed up by next friday close to my house.
Regroup and prepare for Cote Nord and try it all again.
Snohorse surely not happy with his ride right now. I told him that’s snowmobiling. He knows. Could be anything anytime anywhere.
The dealer to dealer parts make no sense to me. When I needed a short block out in Chandler for my MachZ , the dealer in Amqui had one and put it on a bus overnight to Chandler. Under warranty. Charged me $50 for the bus ride.
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Ice build up. Me and my buddys 19' 900t's both missing at least a dozen lugs on the outside. Never a problem on our 1200's Dealer said forget about warranty
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29 minutes ago, mikerider said:
Mark, its way out back on the back side of the spa. Room is new and quite big. Not your presidential suite, however. I stayed in that suite one night by luck. WOW!!! You should give Lisa a night in the Penthouse suite.
Jack, I am slowly easing my way into the 21st century. Tell Eric he and his flip phone can ride with me anytime.
Haha
He may be there next week for a night, me too if I can finish up with adult responsibilities in time to join the misfits on the next trip!
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5 hours ago, Cobra said:
Just came from Quebec riding 8days.
Have to say people are OUT OF CONTROL!
Riding center left, blowing turns, 2 wide Johnny racers thinking they are the only ones on the trail system ect.
Had 2 instances where I was almost wiped out.
People really need to check themselves and start riding more responsible!You must be coming back from St Zenon! LOL!
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Most fuel and lodging are in the towns, never had a problem late season. If you have never run that section, check conds before you go and deceide. The green 587 is also a nice trail
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We took the flatbed from PLC to camblton a few years ago. They where there within 20 mins of the call
Pics from the Matapedia Valley !!!
in Gaspe Peninsula
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Also had trouble getting on, guess it wasn’t me.
thats how I ended up with that multiple reply on my thread!