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They have gates on the bridges, but just have to ride on the side of highway for 60 feet or so to by-pass them, so thats what they have been doing...

Well, 3 million in the hole, three times the trail needed to be rebuilt in several areas due to poor construction, and no trail.... the MTQ came out sometime in the last 2 weeks and posted it all with "no snowmobiles or ATV" signs... there are still the group of dorks who are passing on it despite all of the issues, must have been at least 20 sleds on it in the last three days alone(it will be these guys that ruin it for everyone else, just like the PTN).... It is a total cluster-fuck, both by the clubs, the greed of the company who did the work, the government who did not do their job properly in the vetting process at the very start when they studied the trajectory to verify all the wet-zones, creeks and streams that need special attention... the FCMQ should be ashamed of the part they played in this as well... IMHO, this trail will never open in its current state....

Think again, the ministre du transport in all of thier wisdom seemed to over-look a couple of land owners right beside the trail when they did the study and it is blocked.... they put up signs which have the round red circle and slash through with both sleds and atv all the way along from mont blanc, all the way back to gauthiers pit on the 117 on the new trail...... Heard it was already past 3 million dollars of wasted infrastructure dough....

BTW, has any of the moderators looked into granting me my extra photo space since i paid my supporting members fees?

Finally there has been a fair bit of back-tracking, wash-out repairs, and an all out major back up as to where the trail was supposed to be, but things appear to still be advancing....

payment sent....😁.....

Looks like the trail passes under the lines further west, back towards Riviere rouge, along the chemin Macaza.... I would venture to say its more in that area.... Cuts off the bar and store from the western section of the trail....

I wonder how close it is to a hydro quebec cut line? Could be riders are leaving marked trail to get to the power line.... starts to be tough if trails need to be fenced to keep riders off private lands....

They had 5 cat excavators working along the trail today, a bulldozer, several 10 wheelers and 2 compactors.......

We had a couple jobs in St. Jovite today, so we took some pictures of the intensity of the work, but i have reached my picture limit...LOL...

This will hit the merchants in Macaza hard for sure... too bad...

Huge work is being under-taken at the bottom of the Morrison hill, about a kilometer past my last picture, they are actually putting an entire stream under ground for approx. 500 feet, and to our count, they have already prepared for a minimum of three bridges so far, and one almost finished... So not just a bit of trimming, this turned out to be a quite expensive venture...LOL... if we had to guess, its up to $1,000,000 and counting.....J&J

looking for a used polaris edge front skid plate, and one for an old wedge chassis also... thanks...

awesome work...👍.. kind of an obvious question, but the dollars are in CDN. or USD?

we have an old "cabane-du-carton" here in Lac Superieur where 4 trails used to meet up,(club here closed way back in 1980) dont know if its even standing anymore, i have not been up there in the bush for 6-7 years, i have a trouble maker neighbor that calls the Po-Po if i even start a sled....LOL

Especially since most is within the boundaries of the highway itself, so its government owned....

yeah, me too, the last season before the trail closed, i had 3500km on the odometer...LOL

good color choices, id be in for a couple of hoodies, and some toques, maybe with the fleur du lys on them?

another.... opps, reached my limit...LOL... i have boat-loads of pictures, the trajectory is all within 200 feet of the highway more or less, and id say the excavation work is approx. 60% finished....😃👍

lots of advancing now..... gauthier excavation has 2 cat excavators going, and is bringing in boat-loads of fill and gravel... here are a few pics...

we did a slow drive of the entire trajectory of the new trail today, the hydro-axe work is almost finished, there is a considerable amount of excavation and modification the needs to be done in several places, but all in all the trail is right along the north-east side of the #117 highway... the groomer will actually fit quite well between the "wall" of stone on the upper portion of the morrison hill....👍

i was there when they closed the trail, we protested by closing the north bound 117 for half a day... about a 100 vehicles turned out for that.....

The bosch CP3 has been used all through the duramax (cummins late 5.9l 24 valve and the 6.7l also use the CP3 style), although i am not sure if its the same or not... its just pressure, the common rail is pressurized, and the injectors are electronic and do the rest, the first run of D-max injectors(2000-2004.5) were prone to cracking, and were under the valve covers and are quite a job to R&R...

Low sulfur diesel has been around in north america for a long time now, maybe the issues are with bio blends? only other issues i can see would be possibly trying to run summer blend in the winter....

Has anyone ever made a run of bling-bling apparel for the site?