Byrd

Didn’t have to worry about waking up anyone with our machines, last ones to leave as usual. Headed west, did the Mount Carleton loop, 100 KM of freshly groomed trail, 2 groomer no sleds. As usual local trails were the best again. Took trail 5 to hotel Fraser in Chandler. Stopped and had picnic lunch, trails were 10 out of 10 other than the last 50 KM. 330 total, not bad for a late start. 

Didn’t have to worry about waking up anyone with our machines, last ones to leave as usual. Headed west, did the Mount Carleton loop, 100 KM of freshly groomed trail, 2 groomer no sleds. As usual local trails were the best again. Took trail 5 to hotel Fraser in Chandler. Stopped and had picnic lunch, trails were 10 out of 10 other than the last 50 KM. 330 total, not bad for a late start. 

Didn’t have to worry about waking up anyone with our machines, last ones to leave as usual. Headed west, did the Mount Carleton loop, 100 KM of freshly groomed trail, 2 groomer no sleds. As usual local trails were the best again. Took trail 5 to hotel Fraser in Chandler. Stopped and had picnic lunch, trails were 10 out of 10 other than the last 50 KM. 330 total, not bad for a late start. 

Leaving Lac Alepin (just freaking awesome) in 15 minutes or so
sure was nice to take a dump in a real toilet and have a couple espressos this morning 
my new friend “Max” and I will surely be lifelong friends

M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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M&M tours are back after a 2 year COVID lay off. 2 McKenzies, 2 Moore’s left Oliphant Ontario and one McKenzie left Antigonish, NS to meet in Rivière-du-loup Monday night. This is the first bag trip in many years where we have no set plans “No Reservations”, which turned out to be a good thing so far, because the first morning we woke up to a snow storm.
Don’t let bad weather or common sense keep you at port.
Planned a short day to Domaine Valga, trail 5 was very choppy; dropped down to the 518 which was a lot nicer. Arrived around 4, enjoyed cocktails, good food and a nice comfy bed. 

Day 2, Woke up to 25 CM of fresh sugar. Weather forecast looked good to the south, headed towards Carleton to the Bai Blue. Made our way down the 579 to the 587 checked out the mommies visibility nile, continued on to our destination. Rode through every kind of weather: Snow, ice fog, rain, freezing rain. Two days of rough trails you got to take what Mother Nature gives you. Woke up to sunshine and a very positive groomer map. 
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0% Reservation
100% Improvisation
Direction by: Constantly changing weather & trail conditions
Philosophical mantra "If we don't know where we're going, every trail can take us there"
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Last Day.....
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From Martin "LongHair" Scorsese
And yes... That's me... It happened..... 
LOL Oh Well
GutZ
 

The only reason I say that is l sold a 1200 engine last year and the guy that brought it said it had to be from a wire drive throttle according to his tech . Less work maybe 🤔 

Make sure that engine will work . Not sure but l think where is something different with wire drive throttle engines and the cable throttle engines. 

We were due for a crazy day ride...



It's a 300+miles loop ride running on both side of the St-Laurence river via a ferry and bridge that get around the large Montreal city, this doable from the porch of my home. Having done it before we already knew it was an ambitious day ride, way more than doing a 300 miles in norther area. There are many roads and highways and rail road crossings+ the ferry and "the unexpected" that insure a very full day ride.

So we started from home at 8:00 am to catch the 9:00 ferry in St-Ignace de Loyola. Freshly groomed trail to warm up...



Arriving at the first river trail path, it was a bit scary



The St-Laurence river level got a bit higher in the night and cause water to rise on the ice on the sides. It is more scary than dangerous because the trail snow bank already cover the immediate side of the river where it can be dangerous and the small water pool we got is over the full river ice cover. It's been so cold since the beginning of the season that this ice is for sure thick enough to support the weight of a Yamaha so no worries we are on a BRP! 



We got at the ferry at 8:45



This ferry is one of the cheap option to cross the St-Laurence river: $7,60 for a sled and his driver and $11,35 in our case for an old married couple +sled



There is actually 2 ferries that offer crossings every 30 minutes on each sides during most of the day(see the web site for full schedule)



Our ferry had an hard time to accost because of the ice. It had to move back and forth many times to clear/crush all the ice along the dock and the 10 minutes crossing turn to over an half an hour one. We got back on the south shore trail at 9:45.
The first stretch along the river to get out of Sorel city was rough but we cross the groomer that was about to solve that



We quickly got on the #5 trail that we follow most of the path up the west of Montreal city. Not a lot snow but good conditions. We could feel few earth bumps in the skis on some very windy pass but the trails were overall very good  





You need to not be allergic to road crossing, especially highway crossings. I quickly counted and we cross the #30 highway 5 times, the #20 and #10 then the #15 2 times also the #640 and #25 and this on or under viaduct and even with a tunnel for the #640
We stopped there for a small break around 11:30



Here a first video(of three) that summarize this first part. you can always push the reader 4 arrows icon to pass in full screen
Continuing on the #5 trail we could saw St-Hilaire mountain that we usually view riding by car



Here after #20 highway crossing, good conditions



It began to get worse after the #15 highway crossing. Last Friday fluffy snow had been more generous there and with the very strong winds we had there was a lot snow blades/drifts in the trail. The visibility stayed good but the bumpy drifts slowed down us to keep in the safe and comfortable zone.



We even crossed a groomer that flatten our route for a few miles but the drifts were forming again quickly behind





We also had something I don't encounter often, a long train that gave us a 12 minutes break before clearing the way



We left the #5 trail in St-Michel area (west of Montreal) to cut toward St-Louis de Gonzague(bridge). We had few trail changes to make so I pointed my destination on the Gps to make it easy but a change between my map version and the real world trail glitched my gps that route us on the wrong side. I figured something was wrong by seeing directions for villages that we had already pass before. I got my cell phone out and made a check with Imotoneige that locate us and confirmed we were out of our route. We stepped back but it add some miles over an already busy ride.  


Here the 2nd video that summarize that part of the ride
 
We finally reached our ticket to the north shore at St-Louis de Gonzague around 4:00pm. It's a 3/4 miles long car bridge over Beauharnois canal were snowmobiles are allowed to cross for free. The bridge is also almost snow free so I did as usual and throw some dish wash soap on my track slides before starting the crossing to help our mule to move our 2 ass on the other side of the bridge without overheating too much. It went very well.



After crossing the Beauharnois canal we were needing next to cross the other half of the St-Laurence river that is done directly on ice. Even not groomed it ride nicely



We then continued to catch the #33 trail, The day was already well advanced



We got on the long Deux-Montages lake a bit past 5:30pm. A bit bumpy but it was ok and was riding good. We missed our target to cross it at daylight... here brief turn to admire the sky behind us 



We stopped for a real supper break at Île Bizard snowmobile relay around 6:00pm. We were near alone there but the people who operate the place told us they were crazy busy from the morning up to the end of afternoon and had depleted most of their food stocks. I took a good club sandwich with a cheese slice in place of the tomatoes and it was delicious! Nice authentic people there, I recommend it! 
We got back in saddle a bit before 7:00pm to do the remaining 90miles to get home
The sony flash was in strike



The trails in this area were pretty worn out and I adjusted the beat to go forward but safe given our day fatigue and the conditions. Our way home went well and we also got the chance to hit some freshly groomed trails on some sectors
Here the 3rd and last video that summarize this last stretch 
 
We finally got home at 10:15PM with 340miles in our butts for the day. The small 900 ace did it flawlessly even if my old venture/expert-x miss missed us in the rough sections. We didn't needed to get rocked to sleep that night!
Another nice good big ride for us !
Alain

 

It must have been the "Rush" song "Sweet Miracle" .........OR.....the "sticker".....either way...I'LL TAKE IT !!!!
Nautico performed compression and leak down and it appears nothing bad with engine. Thermostat and temp sensor should be there today. Overheat and temp sensor showed up on computer but nothing about oil pressure. 
Gotta love Skidoo and the MIGHTY 1200   !!!!!

I believe it was the words of our great philosopher ScorpionBowl:
"You can't drink all day, unless you start in the morning"

Look like you guys had a good time as usual even got some day drinking in .

Look like you guys had a good time as usual even got some day drinking in .

And no, the restrictions did not hurt one bit.
And yes St Hubert's demi poulet and a hospitality shot of Sortilage (maple whisky) are vital components of sledding Quebec!
 
 
 
 
 

Don’t be so hard on yourself we all have momentary lack of judgement now and again.😀 

Don’t be so hard on yourself we all have momentary lack of judgement now and again.😀 

So...a measly 96 miles yesterday but TONS OF FUN with my two best buddies. Today we head back to Lac Chapeau de Paille for the night and blast back to Matawin in the a.m. to return home.
i leave you with a pic from Haltaparche this a.m. 
For me....there is NOTHING better in all of snowmobiling than this place and especially Jean-Guy who is turning 80 March 8th
i think a birthday cake is due. Just gotta figure out how to get one here.
im sure I will have some killer pics today (blue sky right now) but won’t be able to post them until on the way home.
take care all....safe season & track side down (unlike the lady from Ottawa at 100 Lacs a couple mornings ago who started hot dogging it and flipped the sled upside down in the parking lot. I had seen/spoke with her a few minutes earlier but went back to the cabin. Jeff goes into pay and when he walks out the front door the sled is upside down with her underneath and the throttle screaming away. And I thought only us Americans were dumb.
im trying to talk Jeffrey into letting me try his new Sidewinder from Casey down to Kanawata junction. As some of you might remember my fondness for that section. I can’t even imagine blasting that with 200 H.P.