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After what seems like a long wait for things to freeze up exaggerated by a fair bit of early snow things are coming together around here. Club Diablo et Rouge as well as club Hebou Blanc report most trails have been packed by the groomers without a drag and just in the last day or 2 groomed. Lake Macdonald and lac des seize Ile have been marked with pickets while lac de les this Montange remains unsafe as does a river crossing near Brebeuf. A run to Tremblant from My house in Montcalm by car revealed the trails looked good. We received a good snow fall New Year's Eve and today while early weather reports predicted rain / freezing rain, that changed to a snowfall warning for here and it has snowed 2-3 inches so far an let up for now with a few ice pellets. Been fairly busy and not time to play but depending on if we get the rain or not they are getting further south( Hudson , Montreal ), I will be out and about on the sled this week.

Thanks, Happy New year to all. May you find Peace, Happiness, and freshly groomed trails in 2017.

I Motoneige groomer reports were not working for some and mine started working the other day. At first I thought it was local as no grooming was going on at that point but trails I knew had had groomer activity by reports on here didn't show either.

Just a joke but I wouldn't go out on the ice around here just yet without a boat or a very fast sled. Ice is still iffy.

A canoe?, maybe they were going ice fishing.

More to the point, where is Pauline now? This too will pass.

Lucky you! Got about 6 in here today and the groomer from Diablo Rouge is out without the drag packing the trails and filling the streams and deep ruts. Could be a bit longer before they drag, but hey it's a start.

Yahoo we have been up graded to a snowfall warning here near Tremblant. Guess the local weather man looked out the window. Started snowing and blowing this morning to the point that I couldn't see far out onto my lake, but the weather for here said light snow and 7 kph winds, say what? We are now expected to receive 20cm.

Well one reason it's not working around my region, the groomers haven't started grooming yet!🚜

Adventure That's for sure. Guessing we were about 2 hrs ahead passing through Hawkesbury.

You say your back in Montreal? We came up today the freezing rain started as I got off 417 onto the 17. The roads up here were better prepared for the weather than down there. I'm guessing you take the 50. We take it in the other direction but figuring it would be slick we avoided it today by taking a series of dirt roads. Still freezing rain near Tremblant.

Welcome, I bought a 2015 venture GT to replace an aging Polaris 2 up. Still have 2 other polarises but the venture is my go to machine for 2 up. Comfortable, gas milage is decent and it is reliable. Still trying to get it to handle better on the corners but all and all very happy. Gold wing huh?, my brother has one and I ride a Nomad 1600 in summer. I use a zumo 550 on the bike, but use the IMotoneige app on a cell phone when on a sled. Not a preference, just never gave much thought about using the zumo and what Quebec trails I could load on it.

Maybe just me but I never found it worked that well on the motoneige 16 either. I preferred a earlier version a few years back where there was a groomer button at the bottom of the page and when activated little groomer icons popped up on the trails with the time they passed.

May you all have a safe and Merry Christmas.

These two fisherman decided to do a public service deed testing the ice for others. They got 100 ft from shore towing their hut behind. When the ice gave way the driver took off for shore leaving his buddy trapped in the hut till rescuers arrived. I don't know what gets into people's minds so early in the season. http://www.courrierlaval.com/faits-divers/2016/12/21/la-glace-cede-sous-deux-pecheurs-sur-la-riviere-des-mille-iles.html

Main sled these days.

I haven't really done any off trail riding since before there were real trails, yeah really dating my self! Anyway i am thinking if you want to goof around trying it there are a lot of trails in the area that use portions of the hydro line corridors. I always see lots of off trail tracks in those areas. Also I am guessing maps that would show crown land might be useful, no sense tick off private land owners.

Just saw this and thought I would pass it along. Could be worth going to if anyone is in the area. http://snowgoercanada.com/latest-news/914-freestyle-snowmobile-demonstrations-for-montreal-s-375th-a-one-of-a-kind-event-in-the-city-centre?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=275579&utm_campaign=2016-12-22

As stated apply on line for the free pass ahead of time. Also just in case you are not aware, if you cross into Canada leave your firearms at home.

Well you can look at it this way, from tomorrow on the days will be getting longer which means longer riding days!

Ok👍🏻

Going to The west island for Christmas but I should be driving back up on the 26th. My buddy and I will probably looking for a first run destination if all is well lakes are safe to cross. We should Keep in touch maybe we can meet up.

Nice, further north near Tremblant we have had no freezing rain only snow. We had about 6 inches on the ground last week and the lake froze with a little snow on it then -30c Fri night and cold all day Fri. Saturday brought about 4-6 inches of snow and -10c temps, another 4 inches of snow over night and snowing quite hard at the moment, -6c. Going into the deep freeze tonight again -27c. All this should add up to well frozen swamps, creeks and lakes. No word on starting to groom from local clubs yet but I imagine they will have all the right conditions to start this week.

30cm in Duhamel? WOW lucky! We only got about 5-6 cm here.