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Doo4, Our most recent favorite hotel to visit is the relative new Domaine du La Cache in Thetford mines, so a departure or at least an over night here should be in your list. After that you will have to zig and zag to make 200 miles per day and stay in the chaudierre region, but our other favorites are Montmagny, the l' Osierre, and Lac Etchimen, at the Manor or Joe's Bistro, rooms are fair at Joe's but food is great. You may want to extend up to Bas St Laurent region to, Riv du loop is an easy reach from there locations. Happy trails
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We rode this are last weekend and got home Monday afternoon on the tail end of the storm. We rode Thetford, QC, Montmagny, Tourville and Lac Etchemin regions. Great snow, in all these regions. The grooming services in this region are top notch so you should find epic conditions.
Enjoy RR
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18 hours ago, smclelan said:
I just replaced the power cord yesterday, and replaced the shield after my first trip. The helmet worked very well today.
SM, I had some high hopes for this helmet, but have been disappointed twice now , lost the first shield to internal moisture between the shields, early in the season, replaced the shield, used locally a few times but did not trust it for the New. Brunswick trip in January, than replaced the power cord and shield with the new “updated” one last week, Left last Monday for a week trip in the Gouin reservoir area, and lost the new shield on the first day to moisture leak. It was crappy weather with ran, sleet and ice most of the day but when moisture gets between the shields forget it.
Ended up at the BRP dealer in St Raymond, purchased a new BV2 and shipped the OXY back home Purolater. Not reliable enough for me unfortunately. 🙁
I will have the dealer send mine back, maybe try again later in a year or two.
Happy Trails!
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This really is becoming a big issue and the land owners (understandably) are not going to put up with it. It will hurt the entire sport.
We do as much of the adventure type riding as anyone, but each rider needs to know when and where it’s acceptable and to what degree it’s acceptable or it threatens this awesome sport.
As Rev indicates, more education for everyone will help. The Zecs and Crown land, unless marked otherwise, are, to the best of my knowledge, allow snowmobile activity. But this topic needs to be on the front of every conversation moving ahead.
Lets hope it can be managed before major damage gets done to the system.
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I use the Choke two finger claw leather gloves for all temps down to -10 or so, below that, Usually the Skidoo gauntlets and/or a pair of hydro guard mitts.
I like a loose fitting leather Choko, two finger glove, as I can remove my left hand glove by wedging it between my leg and seat on the roll, to adjust my gps and put it back on without stopping.
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Mike Rider and Rev, great to see your reports out on the snow in the Bas St Laurent area. Enjoy and keep,those reports coming!
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Day 4
200 miles
Take in Jasmynes club house at Tourville, the rest of trail 5 to rdl, than back to Degelis
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You might consider taking 85 north to 35 above Cabano, run 35 to 557 thru Lac of the east into St Pamphile for lunch, than run into Lac etchimen on 55 for the night at Manoir Lac Etchimen or Joes Bistro. Consider taking a detour if you have time to go up over park mt du Massif, 549 to 547..
Next day take 545 to St Theophile, than 25 to Thetford mines and onto 65 near Victoriaville, than 525 to Drummondville.
For a return, consider running 25 east to 5 near Levi’s, run 5 all the way back to RDL, than 85 back to Degelis.
An overnight in Montmagny on your return.
Plenty of options, but this is a good one to consider.
RR
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Grooming’s a little different out there, it’s a suspension beater
TB, I got a chuckle out of your comment above, brought back memories from last years run😉.
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On 1/7/2019 at 11:24 PM, dooright said:
Too funny , Mark had booked us in there this morning 🙂 Perfect !
Randy, I know you guys are headed this way next week. Not sure if you have downloaded the brand new Map gears interactive map for —New Brunswick .......”Go Snowmobiling NB 2018/2019”—-.
The developer, Map gear, did the Ontario one too. This was just released a few days ago and replaces and older fix based app that had been available. Works really nice!
Have a great run
RR
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Another New Brunswick day, still far away from the Quebec ZEC territories , but we are having a fun run here.
Leaving this am in light snow but with Winter storm warnings posted we knew we were going to have fun this afternoon. We were not disappointed!
We ran the New Brunswick snowmobile Assoc, Zone 3. A nice run this morning on a great loop out to Caraquet NB for lunch, and yes, fresh seafood!!
Than the winter storm warnings kicked in, Heavey snow all afternoon made visibility and snow accumulations interesting. By the time we were back in Bathurst we had a foot of powder in the trail in places and having a blast.
We expect another 6” tonight so our run tomorrow will be even more fun😁
Happy Trails
RR
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Yes, that gorgeous husky is still doing well!
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23 hours ago, PLAYHARD said:
Roadrunner!
Just noticed your likes-to-posts ratio is greater than 1:1!
Might be all of those depanneur ham & cheese sammy shots?
Play hard, well we are definitely out of the ZEC territories on this report, as we decided to stay in New Brunswick today and ride some areas that many of us have not ridden in 20 plus years. So,e never at all.
With all the trails in NB open for the first time in 3 years we figured if we are going to do it, let’s ride it this week. And we have a big storm coming in tomorrow. Just gets better!😁
We left Moose valley, lunch at Serpentine lodge and ended up in Miramachi City. We had the full scale of riding conditions today. We didn’t want to leave any condition uncovered😋.
A great lunch with Alyre at Serpentine, he knows Andyman well as Andyman has been here a few times! we also talked with several friendly riders there today and got to ride the interior NB. Also we saw the ice jams on the Miramachi rivers, pic below is where the Renous and Miramachi fork together. A good 265 miles of NB riding today😁
More fun tomorrow
Happy trails
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Oh and that worm hole on the NB/Quebec border, extra special!😁
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Rev and play hard, we had a real fun day today with our adventure ride to Lascension de Patepedia. An awesome blue sky day for us before the snow coming.
200 miles of 35 groomed and 165 single track or powder riding. Just what we wanted! Back at Moose valley for a second night👍
We even got to open one of our old worm holes from a few years ago, a special treat!
gorgeous views today, and a great lunch made by the one and only 603 Backcountry for lunch!
The hospitality here att Moose valley is over the top, in fact the provincial Governor comes tomorrow to review all the great work they are doing here!
After talking with Andyman, we plan to explore some more in NB this week, heading for Bathurst or Miramichi tomorrow.
Thank you Andyman for the tips!
Happy trails RR
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8 hours ago, dooright said:
Have a great day free of saddlebags !
Were there the 17th but its full up friday the 18th Do you know of another NB outfitter option ?
Thanks
Randy
Randy. the Chalet Restigouche is open just west of Kedgewick, they have cabins, a restaurant, food is good but restaurant does close early. They also have gas and are 50 miles east of Moose valley
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This was our run yesterday, we ended up with 240 miles. I nice back country ride between Rimouski and the Amqui trail was an extra bonus for us yesterday.
The saddle bags come of today, as we are staying another night.
More playing in Moose valley today!
Happy Trails RR
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This years adventure takes us again, out of the QR territories. We are currently waiting for the ferry to Port au basque Newfoundland. Our scheduled 5 hour ferry ride last night was cancelled from North Sydney NS. But we are on for a 2 pm departure today. Arriving in NL tonight around 7pm .. hopefully! This will not be a high miler run but we are looking forward to lots of snow, great views and lots of good conversations. There are 10 of us and we will be covering the north eastern tip of NL, from Deer Lake, and north. Happy hour in the trailer last night waiting for the ferry was the high light last night after an 11 hour drive! A blue sky day today is in order for the sail!
Happy trails
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