Scranton1

See everyone this afternoon.
Even brought the swim trunks.
 
BJ

See everyone this afternoon.
Even brought the swim trunks.
 
BJ

hi andy ..linda ..terry...steven and tom !!!
 
back from a 12 hrs run !!! lots of snow...long day !!!
great sleds andy and tom !!! like to see old ones too ...look at the front suspension !!! hahaha...and people were still having a lots of fun !!!
linda...inside trailer there was a few sleds...tv ...etc..mac doo snowmobile safety training unit..there was a tnt or blizzard inside....olympique 12/ 3 and nordic i think..i remember going in the trailer...
great pic and imagination terry !!! place look very familiar !!!
steven .....1390 du phare ouest .......at the corner of 132 and 195 ....street with paper mills (195 )...with all your knowledge about the gaspesie ...should be easy to find !!! quality inn ....not too far on the west side!!!
ps...took a short ride in the rhubarb going backward ...lac saumon...
 
jean-guy

Have a great trip BJ!
Looks like a great weather week to ride!
 

Last Day of Ender Part 1....continued
TQ3 was not broken all the way to St Aime de Lacs, like surfing in the powder, unbelievable. After crossing the Lake it's more of the same. Down to St Urbain here the road crossings are broke open and the trail had been opened with the Dozer without the drag, not sure if this is better or worse. Better at road crossings but in trail is two big trenches to ride from the tracks. Not always easy especially for the new guys. A bit further on and we catch the dozer. Back to ooening it ourselves. Just a bit further and Al is stuck, looses momentum and down he goes. We pack it down around him and get him going. Some serious hills out there and was not easy. Looking back it was quite challenging and fun, but at that time knowing we had far to go made it daunting. We push on but its slow going. We arrive at Relais outside BSP at 11:30am. No tracks headed west on 3, deep deep snow. We know dozer is coming (we past it not far back) but where is he going when he gets here? We decide to wait and see. The ladies who run the relais arrive. playhard starts to shovel out the front door for them, i decide he should not have all the fun i grab another shovel to help out. We finish the deneigement and anxiously await the ski dozer. Two others artive behind us on widetracks. We hear him getting closer. He arrives and clears the snow in the intersection, he then spins around and we are not sure where he is going, then he throttled up and headed west. Yes! Finally catching a break. Well might as well eat and give him time to work. We wait 45 minutes and go. Its better for sure being busted open by him. The two widetracks waited with us but left ahead of us so now we catch up to Dozer, taling a break. Ahead of him is tge tracks from the widetrack guys. Hey this will work. We fight on and after one more stuck for Al on the powerlines(really really deep) these guys did great considering their experience levels. Really good. Bit further along we realize gas is gonna be a problem. We make it to the forrestry camp there on 3. Well no gas or resto this year. Oh well time to pour the gas we got. We push on to 320 to St Anne du Beaupre. Trail is marked Cul de sac. And not showing gas. GPS says petro canada 3 something miles. We gotta go. Down down down, trail on powerline past entrance to Ski Place says Fin Sentier. End of trail. Still 3.5 km to gas. Theres tracks so we follow down and into a new development, bare pavement for a bit and we see tracks along road and red sticks. We got it, into gas and quick chat with a local tells me keep going to rejoin 3. Excellent. Now we roll more traffic has been here. Trail choppy but bigger. No bobsled track. Up to rejoin 3. Here Scorpionbowl and Marty bid us farewell as they will run ahead to get to St Raynond. Slow going through QC city but better trail. Through QC and to Donnacona at just after 6;20pm. 
Falling asleep typing. I am spent. I will finish for you tmmrw. 

Hi Phil.  We have supper reservations in the big room for 7 PM.  Maybe in the bar before that if we get settled in early enough.  Lets try to meet up.
Jack & Sandi

I knew you would get another rip in Jack & Sandi!  Conditions thruout PQ are too sweet to leave alone!
I just arrived home to NJ an hour ago. 2 hours on sled & 7.5 in truck.  
Enjoy!
Tom

One last ride.  We are at Motel Bernieres tonight, Friday.  Sandi, myself and two of the Gutz brothers will be arriving at Universal RDL tomorrow night, Saturday, for two nights.  Anyone else going to be there?  Plenty of snow here.  The last storm dropped 50-60 cm.  We will post what we find.
Jack & Sandi

Thank you so much Scranton1!
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hi jg !!!
sure ,brought back memories ..riding narrow  trail on the other side of brook at my camp !!!rode similar trails north of dolbeau .. latuque...charlevoix area !!
laurentides reserve and that part west of the ferry in tadoussac...zec des martres i think....still the best of my 2 winters with challenge kanada !!
on my way to groom local trails !!!....-12c...grey sky !!!
 
jean-guy
 

just a little note ...
without making publicity...
ski doo dealership in matane will open this coming monday !!!
 
 
jean-guy

I'm home. Got to Trois Riveres 10pm. Left Casino 8:15am. Washing my riding clothes and back to Saguenay Tmmrw. Gotta go pick up the Ski Doo's and do a few things here before leaving. Trucking to Saguenay. Do we need to? No. But only a 4 day run so going right up where we want to be. 
 
Story of todays ride will be told tomorrow. Ice need rest. 
It was not easy. But we got er done. Only 1 Vector stuck twice and not too crazy stuck. Charlevoix is not the place to be after a giant blizzard. But I knew that. 
I will tell you all about it tmmrw. 

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haaa !!!
this my personal opinion...so, i  hope no one is going to give me bs !!! haha
 
tomorrow i win at the lottery...no thx...i won t buy it !!!
from what i know ...and i believe that ...early season,start grooming very wide...why ??? because if you lose the edge of the trail during the season...drifts ..etc....naturally ,you ll narrow your trail because you ll be scared to fall in the ditch or deep snow...so , if machine lean too much on the same side ...good luck ..make sure you have a good shovel and lots of friends !!! samething with your 4 x 4 truck...throw it in the ditch...try to come back on the road !!!
i read or heard about a club that hit a stump with one track....20-25 00.00 $$ damage
and a few stories on french about transmission !!!
so, tomorrow ,i win at the lottery ..i ll buy 2 tracks !!!
and personally i feel safer with 2 tracks....don  t forget ..you re alone when grooming ...your friends are not always close by...
about 2 miles after we met ... you saw the drifts with the stand on the right and clear cut....better be careful with 4 tracks not to go too far on the right...or even both side....plouck !!! kapuut !!!
buying a groomer depend what kind of terrain you have...big hills...big drifts etc...
 
jean-guy

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Scout motto: "Be Prepared"
You just never know what, why, or where you'll wind up right?

What?! They've got TOYS?!

Uh oh, time out:

No stickers handy, pas du problem!...


 

This photo won't make your butt pucker, but when these guys go right down the trail overhead, then circle back, and louder than an Apex, it's kinda freaky:

 
 

They are back with us. Trail Meeting is underway. 

Seems Florida Snowman and Scorpionbowl with Marty, decided to give it a go. 
I think they will be back or maybe not. Taking the road was discussed, might not have been a bad idea.....
just here trying to get out of the Hotel Property

Thats why I'm watching TV deciding what time to have lunch and hit the hot tub. 
 

As the picture below shows we have "WHITE-OUT" conditions in La Malbaie this morning!!

Day 3
Left La Saguenee in Chicoutimi 8:15, blue skies big sun and not as cold today. Still cold but not too bad. Nice riding weather. 83 is in nice shape all the way to 367. This trail is just as nice, hell they are all perfect. Its still full on winter here. Across the two bridges and up 367 to 93 then back to 367 then Orange trail straight up and over to Relais Mont Vilain. All trails excellent passed groomer on Local trail grooming a perfect flat trail. Keep at boys I'll be back in a few days. 8-10 miles from Relais, We see the trail marked Tour De Montagne. Well alrighty lets go check this out. Well as Playhard will tell you "not all ideas are good ones" we start up this single lane "trail"? Or so they say. It goes on and i see a sign says 4km more, Now if there was ever a time to follow your instincts it was then and i knew i should have aborted the mission there and then, but did not. It soon got steeper and steeper. I'm good but worried about my 2 new guys with 1.5 days experience this is getting iffy. Well too late cause is single sled wide and straight up now no where to turn back if we wanted to. I make it up but it was not easy big trenched out straight up climb you lose momentum game over. I reach a place with enough of a place to get turned around. But I am alone, after 2 minutes Andy climbs up but no Al and no Playhard. Andy says he thinks Al got stuck as he lost momentum. Ok now. If I go down to help and he made it past that last part then we are heading right for each other with no where to pass. I wait and am hearing nothing. I gotta go help. I slide on down cause it looked even steeper going down find Al spun out on the straight up part. He is holding the brake and not sliding back yet. David has backed down to give room but Al is trying his best but up aint gonna happen, i am able to jump up on snow bank and found a spot to park off trail, i hurry down to Al and take over. I roll back a bit but too much ice to climb up. I back sled down and get him turned around. David has backed down and is turned around. Great, Andy arrives and the three start down leaving me to crawl back up the Icey straight up slope to try to get back to my sled, felt like Mount Everest to me. Damn this was not a good idea. We make it back out onto the real trail, lick our wounds and have a good laugh about it. Off we go not too far from there I leave the trail and I jump out on River and we take the Vilain express. 
No visit at Relais Vilain today but maybe 15 sleds there at Noon. We have passed 2 so far. Leave there on 367 and down to gas there in Lamarche. 367 all the way to 93 in St Monique. All mint. Super conditions. Back to 367 to Peribonka. The trail here near the river crossing (peribonka) is marked Ferme' Danger. As there are fresh tracks we push on. Big heaves on the ice and on far side a big crevasse where the ice has given up but refrozen now, nice but its a. 8 foot drop that will get your attention if you are not paying attention or come through at night. There is a goat trail go around and we get through and back on solid ground. Back to 93 and direction Dolbeau. River crossing here is solid but is running water out further that was not there 3 weeks ago. Certainly the rivers and lakes will determine the end of the season up here. There is tons of snow. The ice will give before the trails. 
Through Dolbeau and 93 up to Girardville. Gas here and we take a late lunch. In the resto I meet Michael, he was the snowmobile club president and i did not ask if he still was. He recognized me from our last meeting last year at the gas station. He says new trail should be open next season. One bridge has been built and second should get done in next few weeks. Trail will go off of 93 near Girardville and take you to Relais Mont Vilain onto river there from the north using part of Local trail that has been closed there. Can not wait. 
Up over the top through Lac A Jim and its nice a bit of drifts in some spots but nothing horrible. Down 93 and to 373 past Relais des Buttes and smooth shot into St Felicien. 238 miles. New guys love quebec and are amazed, "the best adventure ever" says my brother in law. They love it. 
Tomorrow off to the Fairmont in La Malbie. Snow is coming things are gonna get interesting. Seeing 25-30cm for Quebec and up to La Malbie Tuesday night through Wednesday. We shall see. 
 
     

I know the Steep and Deep, just north of Mt Vilian, Brother "Long Hair" was leading up to a "look out", it kept saying 3kms to the top.
The sled is almost straight up and down.
GutZ

JG
We may run into QC this Friday Night to see the sleds too. Looking at the Enduro, everyone seems to love them, No-Hair will be breaking his in this weekend, Test Drive!!
GutZ
 

Headed up to Laval last night to wet my pallet a little at the OEM sled exhibition, took a few snapshots so here they are boys. Arctic Cat a no show again this year, what's up with that?
These two are my fav this year, Backcountry has got a new suspension, no more T-Motion, choice of track and has the Freerides colors

137" Freeride with choice of track

More from BRP


From Polaris, not sure if it's been too long since I've been looking at the but they got a new beast called Titan, a 20" wide track model.



And now a couple from Yamaha, Turbocharge 153 Viper

For Mr.Iceman


Something a little different