-
Posts
7,537 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
708
iceman last won the day on February 10
iceman had the most liked content!
Previous Fields
-
Club
Team Iceman----Crucian Snow Riders---- Club Motoneige Comte Champlain
Profile Information
-
Gender
Male
-
Location
Mont-Carmel, .QC
-
Snowmobile
Yamaha
Recent Profile Visitors
124,408 profile views
iceman's Achievements
-
Day 6 Not in a hurry today. Had breakfast and slowly got dressed and headed out to start the process. Big group of Quebecois next door. 6 sidewinders two BRP. One sidewinder had relay frozen, they opened her up there and took relay inside for some hairdryer time. It was in the nose in a black box. Never heard of this issue but was interesting to watch them get it fixed. They were from Beauce. one with them who lives in Alberta. Nice guys headed out for 5 days. Off we go, we are on a mission or two today. We need to get a starter problem on the Backcountry sorted, we are going back out the end of next week and would rather get it sorted now. We are also headed back past trucks to get NHmoose within striking distance to drive south this afternoon. So out the gate we are focused. Get lucky with beautiful groomed trail TQ83 all through town got a nice new McDonalds not far from La Saguenenne right next to trail, we get very lucky crossing all the roads. Onward we roll to Jonquiere. Changes here since my last ride through road crossing down further and an AW Burger. Down to Tunnel. Looking good both ways. Been decided beforehand It’s TQ83 back to 383 then to Spence BRP…Knowing it’s a long shot on a Monday morning. Spoke in french with Eric at Service desk. No part here. Super friendly and calls Alma, they got parts but slammed. I asked him if he got part if he could do it Tuesday morning, here at Spence. He says no. Ok last and probably best choice is Imperium Dolbeau BRP, never let us down. He calls there..bingo…Parts in stock, can start it late afternoon finish it before lunch tomorrow(so we are told). Jacynthe is who we see when we arrive. I tell him to tell her pull the part and we will be there before 3pm. Outside to break the news to the English speakers. So it shall be all things for a reason. Dolbeau we like it there. Time to move on it. Back track out of local to 383 then back to TQ83, she is a go. Nicely groomed slot car fast to Hebertville, It’s more of the same to gas in Lac a la Croix. Back on 83 perfect trail just to near chambord and near CN yard never good here, but wait ten minutes it will change and it does, back to white asphalt all the way to 355 junction where we say so long for now to NHmoose. We ride on still stellar conditions white asphalt up and into Roberval, everything that was drifted up last Wednesday is now groomed slot car track fast. 10/10. Up to local orange through St Prime over river and past St Felicien, local orange bottom trail, shortcut over lake. To Dolbeau. Local orange last half was great and TQ93 here as well. Arrive at Imperium Ski Doo 2:45. Left Spence in Jonquiere 10:30. Jacynthe at Service very friendly and took care of everything. Part was already pulled and labeled for Phil’s backcountry. Sitting there waiting for us to arrive. They even drove Phil to Hotel. I rode to hotel to join him. More technical issues i have lost microphone on Sena coms, i hear them, they hear nothing from me. Got spare mic but not here, will be a complete spare parts kit onboard from here on. Great day all things considered. Did pass one group today 3 sleds on power lines before 83 joins with 23 by Presbytre. They were 2 with a guide. Guide saw us bearing down and stopped in a good place to let us by, merci. Otherwise all oncoming traffic again. Down but not out. Not many photos today
-
dooright reacted to a post in a topic: Slow season
-
dooright reacted to a post in a topic: Computer and Website Problems.
-
❤️👍🏼
-
Snow on the way where needed. Thursday and Sunday.
-
I can no longer react to posts at all. As well
-
NSHM reacted to a post in a topic: 355 north condition.
-
There was barely enough snow there last week. To open it. it’s probably better now not sure.
-
The end is near. Maybe we need a thread so we can say our goodbyes now, before site crashes.
-
MrsGTRider reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
NSHM reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
Jackstraw reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
neksledr reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
P Hardy reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
P Hardy reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
P Hardy reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
Sorry for double photo posting, not sure how that went down
-
Day 5 Up and out early again by our standards 8:15. As usual rocket ship ride to Relais on TQ3 Escoumins. Headed for Tadousac but by 330 not TQ3 its a dream run back to join TQ3 at 93 Junction. All good trails here. I like the new change with TQ3. Nice ride right into Hotel Coronet gas n go. Down.TQ3 to get across on ferry. There is some great improvements on this section since I last rode it. Easy like a Sunday morning we wait patiently For a dozen or so cars and trucks to get loaded on, no big rigs usually at least one. Then last on last off its us. I decided to use the wheels. At slow speed over ramps and on to the deck…they worked like a charm. Only sleds headed over, thank you baby jesus I don’t have to follow anyone up this Bunny Trail on the Baie St Catherine side. Got 6-7 sleds waiting to get across when we debarked. We head up the hill and surely this trail is left this way on purpose, rough and bumpy. To keep speed down, it’s that or the club can find no operator who will agree to groom it? For whatever reason its been this way forever. We join onto the maintained part of TQ3 where the local trail to the Co op gas is. We zip up to 383 and start the climb to Chicoutimi. Groomer been here and is headed back and the 6-7 sleds at ferry came this way down the 383. No tracks where groomer backed up on TQ3 west to turn around. Trail is nice as twisty as ever. No free KM’s here. Its quite a while then I see where the sleds headed south pulled over to go around groomer on left side. Then i kept thinking he can’t be far but he was far and hauling the mail. We catch him at Petit Saguenay, He goes left down local trail we pass on 383 down over river. So far all sleds have been oncoming have caught up with no one else. 383 is just as remembered and we feel as if it goes on forever then just before La Baie on TQ83 we pass a sticker check. Real quick, they checked also for mirror and registration on sled or plate. I 2 3 and merci chow bye. Got no problem with it. These are club agents not police. Into the La Baie man it has changed here bigtime too. Lots of logging and the landscape has changed big time. Trail has surely changed since my last run here. Near La Baie now, another sticker check club agents, sticker only here and go. Now changed trail for me as well here after La Baie, definitely changed. Then trail arrives at the Center Plein Air Bec Scie, from there all the same to Chicoutimi. How bout one more sticker check club agents again at TQ83 and 383 Sticker check and go. NHmoose quick to point out he got no issues with them checking papers and stickers just don’t give them radar guns. I second that motion. 2 km from hotel my streak is over catch 4 two up sleds headed down local trail to hotels. They cross street as we head to the gas and store. First sleds we encounter in fronof us since the groups of off trailers whle passing through Valin. Cruise into La Saguenenne, been a few years. They got a new restaurant called Tomahawk Grill. It’s pricey yes, but you get what you pay for. Damn good. Another stellar day. Great conditions great temperatures. Regroup in morning and make some decisions.
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: 355 north condition.
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
Out the locals trail from the gas station and join back to TQ3. Headed for the loop above Forrestville. Seeing more and more sleds and all going the other way. Trail is fine lots of snow here and we move on and head up the north side of the loop we take a left and this section of local trail is a single wide bunny trail. This is starting to come back to me but i thought it was bigger. Its not comfortable as this single track with big berms is unnerving. We decide to stick it out another few KM and it opens up. OK, this is at least much safer and we can work with this here beautiful trail. We open it up, its fluffy just like yesterday. So far been a little bit of everything, love it. Loop around and now this trail is familiar again. And as we join to the trail junction that forks to Chenail du Nord now I have my bearings back. Been a few moons since the last run here. Great run back to TQ3 and we backtrack to the same gas stop. Tank it up and we go. TQ3 this time back to Escoumins. Its beautiful the whole way. I think its the third day that all traffic has been oncoming not catching anyone all day in front of us. Spectacular trail all the way back to hotel. Restaurant across the street has greatly improved and is getting back to pre covid quality. It was a struggle for a bit there. Great run, doing some real snowmobiling. Tomorrow is another day.
-
Day 4 6-7-8 today. On it and after breakfast we have kept to it and are out of here just after 8am. Groom here from hotel up to TQ3. Groomed sweet to Relais. Thus section of TQ3 here from the Hydro station where the plowed road ends is surely of the best flowing sections of curves on any high speed trail in Quebec. Love this stretch here and onward on the local trail up to join 330. Simply wow. Arrive at intersection of 330 we go right groomer went left. Not a problem it’s pretty perfect with a little fluff all the way to the Pel Chat 335 split with 330 we continue on 330. This is not been groomed lately but has a lane and a half, blown open so I widened it out where I could, surely Snohorse is finalizing the widening operation. This section seems to always be hit or miss. But not far in and hello there….fresh grooming with no tracks. Its fresh he is not too far ahead. It’s further than we think before we catch him. He is stuck. Fell off the side on slight uphill. I stop to ask if he needs anything, he thinks he can power it out and he has his Sat phone. We say chow bye but just pull up far enough to not be a hinder at all if he gets out and where we are seen from the other direction. He backs up and takes a run but just can’t get right track back up on trail base. Takes him 4-5 tries but he sends it on the last run and it pops up out of the ditch. He is out and we roll on. Not far on we see our first sleds headed the other way. Been a long way and seen no one. Here on this trail is avery clean awesome warming hut well equipped. One of the nicest i have ever seen it is clean always and i love it. They take pride in it. Beautiful run groomed all the way to Portneuf sur mer. Gas and small break here. to be continued….
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: Team Iceman Lac Bouchette…..
-
iceman reacted to a post in a topic: Heads UP 83 East from Parent to Wemogaz - Wemotaci is closed