snowmaster2112

so glad you guys got another run in. Remember meeting/chatting with you guys two years ago on the road outside Parent. Hope to run into each other again for a longer visit. Here a pic taken about an hour ago 100 yards or so from the Giraldo Dam on the 345

I just checked
850 miles and 14+ hrs for me one way
Plus I dont have a running sled at the moment and gas is 4.40 here in the states
Other than that......I would be there tomorrow morning.

I was passing through there one day a couple years back and they were tearing down the cafeteria building on the end with an excavator. I could not have stopped at a better moment as he had just started on the south end. As he was tearing into the bldg with his bucket and ripped the south wall down the electric (THAT WAS STILL HOOKED UP TO THE BLDG and ENERGIZED) blew a loud crack and fire balled up into the air. Swear to God I got video of the whole thing somewhere and if I can find it and edit it I will post. 
Have a lot of fond memories of that place. We used it at last a half dozen times as a launch point and used to stay in the big barn bunk house and the LITTLE cabins on the hill. Don't remember which trip but I do know one night I walked into that cafeteria as cold as I have ever been. Probably borderline hypothermic. I sat in that cafeteria thawing out till they closed down and kicked me out.

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

Your best pic of the rock ?   Post them....
Here....circa 2007 by yours truely

I probably have well over 1000 snowmobile photos and less than a dozen are true "keepers", almost professional looking. I have had to work hard at it over the years and still nowhere as good as say Towing is. 
I found this today over on HCS Quebec website today. Some guy who lives in "western Quebec" took this (or his friends did) this past week in the Chic-Chocs.
It has my vote for best snowmobile pic EVER SNAPPED. Does it have your vote too?  
Feel free to post what ya got on here (good, bad, ugly) and we will try and keep it going.
If that was me in that pic I would have it made on an 8x10 ft piece of wallpaper to put in my bedroom no matter the cost.

STUNNING !!!!   And then some....

you aint kidding "nice picture"
Definitely one for the record books !!   BRAVO !!!

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

2 April Saturday  End Game
 
Out to face this last day for this adventure and for this incredible season. Feeling especially thankful this morning for having great friends like these two to spend time with doing things we love together. Teamwork makes the dream work. On and off the trail. 
 
We are on sleds and rolling out around 8:30. Was one other sled in corral. Gentlemen came from St Raymond through Lac Edouard up to St. Felicien. Today he was going over the Lac and to Chicoutimi tonight. Back to St Ray on 23 Sunday. 
 
The plan was, as usual, mutually agreed upon. We leave uo 373 through Relais Buttes. The cold overnight has made it all crunchy. Not icy, but scratchers are deployed. Amazing how a little bit of heavy flurries last night can be emptied outof fields by the wind onto the trails making nice fluffy drifts. We get to 93 and head toward La Dore. Tank em full. We head off on 93 direction Sciere 54. Leaving La Dore near groomer garage. Two guys are there they look like club guys. I pay no real attention other than notice them sitting there. Trail All drifted here has not been touched in a while. We plug on. It gets better then sketcy. Not far up i arrive at right turn and there is no more trail, been opened up by a bulldozer. Game over here. Playhard arrives and says he got flagged down by guys at groomer garage and from what he got from conversation with them was fermer, no go that way. Sounds about right. So like all other times we pivot. There is talk of going around through Resto du Chef and trying to bypass the bulldozed section. However we decide juice aint worth the squeeze. We were going to do 45 miles up and turn back just to check it out. Not today. 
 
Next.....back on 93 to 373 across through Normandin and over to 93 again up to Girardville all mint trails here in our “honey hole” no need to look any further. We initially plotted plan b as riding the 373 passerelle trail east from Girardville opposite what we did the other day. Got some gas in Girardville then up 93 to 373. Passed one two uo and saw 2 other sleds headed west near Normandin. Ripping fast and smooth all the way to Chalet Relais there. We start to head down other side and we were feeling it. Not gonna do it. It’s just not uo to our standards. It was a solid 7-8/10 trail but I knew as did my brothers that back in the “honey hole” were all 10. Back we go down 373 to 93 then its a small part of 93 up to Lac Jim we have not been on yet this run, this is perfect as it will help complete the Pac-Man. After Jim we stick on 93 down the bump out. Up the orange a bit to gas in St Thomas. Then retrace our steps to 93. Getting warm now. Trail has started to turn to mush. Time to get this over with we have ridden the good out of it here. Back to local orange past site touristique chute d’ours and hook up with orange across river back to 373 and down through Relais Buttes. Squshy trail now sun is making things very melty. Soft but good all the way home. 
 
Wrapped uo a fine 2 weeks. 
End of the season 21-22 that started for me in December just after Christmas and finishes today 2 April. 
Nice to have the boys back in country. Just missing one. Next year we fix that. 
 
Thanks all for being along for the ride.
 

Ice & crew,
You guys are "knocking it out of the park" having a blast on some of the best late season riding in years. 
Through all the obstacles you guys "overcome" each and every day and "ride on" like we all dream about. 
So glad to see Carolin getting out. She is a "trooper" for sure !!
Safe travels all the way back..........

STUNNING !!!!   And then some....

Ice & crew,
You guys are "knocking it out of the park" having a blast on some of the best late season riding in years. 
Through all the obstacles you guys "overcome" each and every day and "ride on" like we all dream about. 
So glad to see Carolin getting out. She is a "trooper" for sure !!
Safe travels all the way back..........

Ice & crew,
You guys are "knocking it out of the park" having a blast on some of the best late season riding in years. 
Through all the obstacles you guys "overcome" each and every day and "ride on" like we all dream about. 
So glad to see Carolin getting out. She is a "trooper" for sure !!
Safe travels all the way back..........

Fabulous write up and pics !!! The little shack...ah....with the Accent Plein Air sign. have been there many times. Quite possibly the "most unique" LITTLE snowmobile shack in all of Quebec. You guys look sad in the picture outside drinking at the hotel. They didnt run out of booze did they ???

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

Fabulous write up and pics !!! The little shack...ah....with the Accent Plein Air sign. have been there many times. Quite possibly the "most unique" LITTLE snowmobile shack in all of Quebec. You guys look sad in the picture outside drinking at the hotel. They didnt run out of booze did they ???

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

Two BIG thumbs up Wes. 
Got this an hour or so from a friend of a friend on the Gaspe today. 

Alain mon ami 
we all cant thank you enough for all the photos/videos/trip reports over the years. You (and your equipment) have risen to a level that NO ONE will ever match. 
You are a special breed (and Kristine) and I'm glad to call you both "my friends" . Missed you this year but NOT next. Gonna get you guys up at the end of the M21 someday no matter what . 
God Speed mon ami  !!!!

so glad you guys got another run in. Remember meeting/chatting with you guys two years ago on the road outside Parent. Hope to run into each other again for a longer visit. Here a pic taken about an hour ago 100 yards or so from the Giraldo Dam on the 345

so glad you guys got another run in. Remember meeting/chatting with you guys two years ago on the road outside Parent. Hope to run into each other again for a longer visit. Here a pic taken about an hour ago 100 yards or so from the Giraldo Dam on the 345