Big Braap

I was in St. George this past weekend (1/29 - 1/31). Rode St. George, Beauce, and over to Thetford Mines. The coverage was pretty thin from my seat. The trails were hard as a rock from the rain and then the cold temperatures, not much of a base, lot's of ice. Now if they received significant snow this week then things might be in better shape but last weekend was pretty rough. Just my .02. BB

There's a real nice B&B about 30 - 40 miles east beyond St. Pamphile off the the TQ35, across from the Relais 540. It's a real quick ride from St. Pamphile as about 25 of those miles is railbed. We make it a point to get there at least once a season, sometimes a couple times in a season. Real nice folks and fabulous meals. Here's a link. http://www.giteoasisdela.bretagne.ca/index.htm

Andre at the Relais 540 is a seller of these and could probably answer your questions. I know he has hosted a demo day a few times over the past couple of years. He's off the TQ35 in Bas St-Laurent. You can find him under the regional forum for Bas St-Laurent. Having spoken with him on these he says the trick is low ski pressure which makes for easy turning yet your hooked like you're on rails. Just what I've been told, I haven't run these so I have no first hand experience.

Think I earned my pilots license on that trail.

Haven't ridden in the states for about 5 years now (save for the 15 miles or so from Jackman to the border). Quebec or nothing for me.

Yep. Gotta love the 597.

I think that is looking down onto Mt. St. Pierre.

The ferry crossing at Tadoussac.

Happy Birthday Bill.

+2485 = 9585

We usually take about 2 hours for lunch, so 4 hours on the machine.

I was thinking more of having lunch at the HI at noon....

There's our bogey doobraap. Got to get it in under 6 hours.

I was up there this past weekend with doobraap. We rode from Jackman, ME to Rivier-du-Loup on Saturday and back to Jackman on Sunday. We took the 75-35-545-5-526-5-561-35-55-75, all in good to great shape. A little frozen rain on Saturday night.

I did that same trip this weekend. Must have passed each other on the trail.

Funny....just saw Ron White on Saturday.

Saguenay Bill and Zenwaiter at the NH Grass Drags.

Hi Bill, We are all planning on going. Sunday more than likely. BB

That was 3-4 years ago just outside of Beauce. It rained and rained then turned to snow. Water was everywhere.

All too well I have to say, that trip was fraught with issues from the get go. Thought we'd have to leave the sled there til springtime as the temps plummeted from like 40 to 0 in about 2 hours and it was looking like that sippy hole was about to freeze up solid. Do you have a picture of the other sled's bellypan resting on my rear bumper, that tells the real story.

Just teasing doobraap. He knows how much I like digging him out year after year. I'm buying him one of these for his birthday. http://www.warn.com/atv/winches/snowinch_1.5.shtml

Have a good one. Let's not get stuck this year.

Looks too wide for that crossing. Here's a picture of the river in St. George. Took the shortcut instead of the bridge.

It's in the Gaspe on 5. I believe its beyond Mont St-Pierre heading east towards, Madeleine?