NHRider

Sorry, and Unedited 7 minute clip for now, I'll make a short version including other areas as the week progresses
 
 
 

Day 2 Friday
  Left RDL on a beautiful white asphalt 526 more like early February here than end of March. Unbelievable. Join up with TQ5 and no surprise it's the same. Frozen hard and wicked fast. Only complaint is the flat light and it is pretty windy, but could always be much worse. Just past Trois Pistoles we stop in a relais parking lot to talk about how frigging awesome this is. Arriving just behind us a few minutes after we meet two guys from Maine. 1500hd and his friend. Obvious from their machines and the auxiliary tanks on the rear, these guys roll with Rob and Roadrunner but decided to pass on the Forestville run this week as the snow was excellent closer to home. Can't say i blame them. Chatted for a few minutes and they rolled on. We followed on out and headed for our gas stop in Rimouski. Perfect trails, very little traffic. TQ5 all the way into Rimouski. Gas and go. To 579 and still very nice. We roll to the 587 and still great. A few places along the roads here on these two trails will be not so nice soon. Kind of not much there now. But just a few parts. Down we go and up to the lookout tower. No mummy's this time of year, no daddy's either. Then we turn our attention to our main objective for the afternoon getting up to the radar. i've never been there. Playhard has been wanting to get up here since forever and we surely tried our best to get up on the spyders this summer only to be denied. But today is the day. We arrive at the Ski area and NHmoose guides us up and the orange trails are super nice. Up Up we climb and there it is. We saw it from afar mocking us almost seemed to be taunting us with a "here i am, now try to get up here" damn you golfball. But we win today. We crest the hill and there it is up close and personal. Success. Victory.    Leave here and take orange local down and across lake to rejoin TQ5. Direction Amqui.  It's too early to head to hotel so off to Albertville to the clubhouse for a late lunch and bonus ride. We PM JG but he has been grooming all day and is tired out. So until next time JG. As always your trails are super. We left you a note with the waitress. Back out of clubhouse and bactrack to Amqui. Jammed hotel with Hockey Tournament, I Just saw 6 sleds pull in only to be turned out because both hotels here are full.    Great day awesome trails. Good to be us.  230 miles

Day 1 Thursday, 
Travel day today, Black Trail. NHmoose and NHmark were northbound to RDL they were overtaken by Playhard who was sans trailer and headed at warp speed for chez Ice. Right on schedule David was in my driveway at 3:30pm. I loaded my gear as he chatted with the Mrs. I've enjoyed my 2 days home the two nights in my own bed were awesome. But time to be going. Like Metallica says "anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home" well not exactly but good enough. Time to go riding. Playhard tosses me the keys as it's my turn to pilot this ship. Off to Moto Thibault, my sled is already in his trailer and we pull in, pin trailer and take a quick visit with Pierre and Alain inside. Out of there and off to RDL AT 4:30pm. Hit the highway 40 east bound and down. I drop the hammer. Confident in the detection abilities of this rig we got places to be. Slight bit of traffic just at the merge on the Pont Pierre Lapointe in QC. No problems we breeze right through. 20 east now and hammer down. Smooth sailing to RDL in to hotel at 7:30pm. Unload sleds and gear. Put up a few stickers and get settled in. Had a nice dinner and now here we are. Locked and loaded. Off to Amqui tmmrw. Still a good amount of trucks and trailers here. Very busy with a hockey and swimming tournament in town. 
Groomer was just passing hotel as we were unloading sleds. Like he knew we were coming. 
Gonna be on the Lookout tmmrw for Scranton1 and Phil1 and their crew. I know they are headed this way. 

Well, well here we go again. Snohorse rolled into chez Ice at 3:45pm on sunday. We had a beer and we were off to Auberge Drakkar to say hello to Playhard and the guys. After visiting a short bit with the boys we gathered up Shaggy and Jess. We loaded into my car and we were off to watch Mrs Ice, play dek hockey. This was to be a first for snohorse, Scott and Jess. We arrived in plenty of time to grab a beer from the bar and settle in to watch the game. It was quite the match as Mrs. Ice's team was taking names and kicking ass. Finished with a score of 7-1. Not quite a nail biter but we like it like that. Took Jess and Scott(shaggy) back to Drakkar and we were headed back to chez Ice. We spent the evening watching tv and relaxing. 
Woke to a nice day to hit the trail. Up and dressed bags on and I gave Mrs Ice a kiss goodbye. We were out and on the move at 8:15. This trip is to be no real plan. We were gonna roll and see where the trail takes us. We jump on the TQ 3 headed east. 20 miles from the house i get a call on the radio to hold up. I brake and spin it around to find Snohorse undoing the birdsnest of what was left of his belt. The 1200 gave no warning just grenaded the belt. 4000 miles on the belt RIPieces. We do a Nascar belt change and carry on. Trail 3 east to 351. All fresh groomed and very nice. First tracks. We run the 351 east and then 302 to 23 and up into St Raymond. We visit Dion Moto to get a spare belt for the 1200. Then on to gas next to Roquemont and its 23 north direction L'Etape. Trails are very nice considering it's monday and there has been big traffic all weekend. Temps are falling and the cold is good. Bring it. We hammer it on up to L'Etape. I'm surprised at how many sleds are here on a monday. We grab gas and take a break. 
To be Continued......

Few photos from today. Snow on hottub was cleaned once yesterday. 

Sleds buried in the sled corral here. 

 

Reggie!  Welcome to QuebecRider!  It was great to meet you Friday morning, and I look forward to staying with you next week!
Wishing you the best of success!  Salud!...

We just left Drakkar this afternoon.  The trail leaves right from his parking lot.  This is taken immediately after we crossed the road from his parking lot today.