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Salut à tous,
IMPORtANT,
Le poste essence ESSO face au relais du nord fermera définitivement ses portes demain le 31 décembre 2009.
Situé sur la 175 en l'entrée du parc des Laurentides (Québec)
Alors prévoyez-vos plein d'essence ailleurs.
Surtout pour ceux qui prévoient se stationner au relais du nord pour une petite virée.
J'ai fais le plein cette après-midi et la madame m'a informé de la fermeture de la station.
Il n'a déja plus de super
Alors soyez prévoyant
fyi !!
esso gas station in front of '' relais du nord '' at the entrance of ''parc des laurentides '' on road 175 is closed ......for good.
groomer !!!
Hi Jean-guy, Do you mean the esso at Le tape?
Stan
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As we had discussed early in the week while on the trail in the link rimouski to amqui, two of us had a 4 1/2 day tour this week that allowed us to experience a variety of conditions which we kind of expected to find.
Here is a more detailed report of what the conditions were like and I have not put them in the regional format as they cover 3 different regions
We left Houlton Me saturday forenoon and rode to the border crossing at St Leonard NB, continued onto Cambellton NB and had a friendly lift over the bridge to Pointe la croix that night for a nice 210 mile ride
Sunday AM departed the Pointe and headed for Albertville with good riding conditions on both the lower section of 5 and especially Groomers section of 5 into Albertville
Pic of Lower section of trail 5 between the pointe and the cable bridge
After a Coffee and asking about Groomer, we headed west on 587 to La Redemption and than picked up 579 over to St Gabriel de Rimouski. These trails were excellent on 587 and good on 579. All kinds on snow on this elevated section of trail
Pics on 587
Pic on 5 near near st marcellin
We picked up trail 5 next and headed west to riv du loop
As typical and snow was less abundant on the fields around west rimouski, but from st eugene to riv du loop we found snow cover to be more than usual, with the section of power line west of st eugene having plenty of snow cover and conditions around riv du loop generous for this time of year.
We ended the day with 240 miles on and generally good to excellent conditions
Monday we left riv du loop and had been told by apexgt of NS that trail 5 near east of Hiboux had not been broken open so we headed east on 5 to St Bruno with great trail conditions, picked up 557 down to 35 and headed west on 35. Note, A bridge on the rail bed is closed so a detour half way down 553 takes you around the unsafe bridge. This is well marked but was not freshly groomed. We continued on 35 to tourville for lunch and than headed north on 55 to 5 again, we took 5 towards montmagny and encountered many limbs bent over in the trail and the closer we got to montmagny the trails had only been panned a storm before and were not marked or technically open in sections. These conditons were preseason and ok with us but probably not acceptable for some riders with a few wide brooks open ect. and marginal snow cover. Once we left montmagny we meet the groomer for the next club and he was doing a great job with the trails, we had groomed riding on low snow conditions from here to the jct of 545 St Gervais, we continued down 545 on groomed but marginal snow covered fields until we ran into a river crossing at St Clair that was open, we were able to use the vehicle bridge in the town to get acrossed the river and continued on our way to the jct of 35 that we picked up and headed west to St Marie where we stayed for the night and a ride of 250 miles
Tuesday we took 35 east all the way and encountered freshly groomed trails on 90 % of this trail all the way to sully, the end of the line with NB. We had 2-5" of new snow on top of the groomed trails in places and plenty of snow to ride on. One note is that at Pohenagamook, the lake was still wide open so you need to take the bypass trail that pics of a piece of 544 to take you around the north side of the lake. Once we hit NB the 41 had not been visited this year. Club asno had not done anything on this trail so we picked our way down thru to claire and back into Maine for a night at long lake for a 270 mile ride and home today for a nice 1100 mile early season ride
544 trail north of pohenagamook
NB 41 needed some creative work to get thru
Over all 90 % good to great riding
RR
AWESOME TRIP! Planning a trip in a couple of week's from montmagny thru New Brunswick and Groomer's area and back, Can't wait!
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Merry Christmas Jocelyne
Stan
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How about this location?
Don't remember the name of the restaurant but Bill calls that ride the Clairmont express
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Hey Jean Guy... Are you sure those pictures/conditions aren't from last year?
Just kidding, WINTER IS HERE!!!!!!
Thanks for all you do!!!! Stan
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Happy Birthday smclelan
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Happy birthday Andy
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Bernard was the best!
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Saw this over on freedomsledder...
26-year-old dies in Quebec avalanche
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | 1:44 PM ET Comments3Recommend7CBC News
A Quebec man died in an avalanche triggered while he was back-country skiing in the province's Gaspé region.
Jean-Philippe Poirier, 26, was skiing with a group Tuesday in a remote, forested area near the Chic Choc Mountains, about 20 kilometres from Gaspé's northern coast.
Poirier took a run alone down an ungroomed hill, and triggered an avalanche, said provincial police officer Claude Ross.
He was completely buried and unconscious by the time his companions found him. Poirier was declared dead a few hours later.
There was a moderate risk of an avalanche on the weekend because of some 35 centimetres of fresh snow that fell in the region on Saturday and Sunday, said Dominic Boucher, operations manager at the Gaspé Avalanche Centre.
There are avalanches reported in the region every year, but no one has died in one since March 2000.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/20...death-0415.html
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Happy Birthday Bill
Stan
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Hey Jean guy, With that beard and those sunglasses you look like these guy's (ZZ TOP) !!! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo
Stan
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15,880 +2100 for me =17,980
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To those of you adding dry gas, remember that if the fuel already has ethanol, DON'T add dry gas since you may over do it.
I was thinking the same thing about adding dry gas to fuel with Ethanol. But like you said the pumps dont say it in QC. I would think they would post it on the pump if it was added but who knows?
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Hi Mike, Happy Birthday and many more
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Hi Greg, after reading this story about Natasha Richardson the actress that died from head injuries while skiing at Mont Tremblant I was wondering whatever happened to Air-Medic?
According to the article, The province of Quebec does not have emergency helicopter service anymore. I remember you saying that Air Medic had filed for bankruptcy.
Stan
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Great trip. We've done the same route minus the flatbed ride. Was the river not open or just sketchy. I'm thinking of doing a similar route in the next couple weeks.
Spoke with N.B. club and was told better to take flatbed or could cross at my own risk, sounded sketchy to me!
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My friend Bob and I left Riviere du-Loup Tue morning on beautiful trails heading east to St. Ann des monts but my track came apart at 40 miles into the trip. Luckily we were close to a road and called C.A. Sports back in RDL and 1 hour later they came and got us. At 2:00 we were back on the trail and made it to Matane by 7:00, 240 miles. We stayed at the Riotel.
Heading to Mont St. Pierre
more Mont St. Pierre
IMO this is the most beautiful place in Quebec
Took the 597 down to Perce 288 miles for the day
Next day stayed in Carleton, About 35 miles East of Cross point. 185 miles today.
Took the flatbed next day to Campbellton, New Brunswick and rode to Edmunston 217 miles
Sat morning Left Edmunston at 7:30A.M. heading back to our truck in RDL. Thought this was really cool, a Ice Road going across a couple mile wide lake somewhere between De Gelis and Cabano
Made it to the Hotel Universal in by 10 A.M.80 miles on very high speed awesome trails loaded up and headed home. Had a great time other than wasting half a day getting a new track put on the first day.
Stan
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Welcome to our incurable disease...lol
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Awesome trip!!
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A few more pictures from our trip, somewhere on trail 3 going east The St. lawrence coming into the casino Trail 23 south just before Le tape, probably the nicest trail on the entire trip
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hi stan !!
i always bring my suit,mitts ,gloves ,tuque , etc ,etc .i won t groom today ,this is too dangerous for the machine to freeze .anyway i don t expect tq 5 to be rough.
if i groom ,only local trails close to town ,tomorrow .better stay close to houses, just in case.
took the pics earlier this morning ,but they don t tell the truth.
btw ,went to the clubhouse last sunday for breakfast and you '' missed '' something !!!ha !! ha !! but i won t talk about that here !! you never know who ' s on the net !!! ha !! ha !!
groomer !!!
That's funny!!!! You have a great memory
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hi mid range !!
wow !! no e mail from my friend this morning !! -40 c for us at 6 30 am .
groomer !!!
Hi Jean-Guy, Make sure you got some warm clothes in that groomer just in case!!!!!!!!
Stan
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I don't know much about places like that but if you were to get in a cab in Jonquiere and ask the driver to take you to Jr's I have a very funny feeling you would be there in short order!
Andy
LOL
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When doo you plan on leaving, and where are you comming from?
I plan on going there early next week if everything works out, I would like to leave from Shawiningan and ride there.
Rather put the miles on the trails than the road....
I would rather do that too, just sent you a pm
Riding partner....
in General Discussion
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My riding partner cancelled on me :sad: for a trip planned jan 20-24 in Quebec
Anyone interested? Have truck and enclosed trailer dates are somewhat flexible
Stan 203-912-3686