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Yes it appears a storm coming through many areas Saturday.  While I don't like riding through storms looks like I'm heading to Barrage Grouin from Lac St Ann for Saturday night for my first ride of the season. Will be thinking of all of you as we break trail.
 

Yes it appears a storm coming through many areas Saturday.  While I don't like riding through storms looks like I'm heading to Barrage Grouin from Lac St Ann for Saturday night for my first ride of the season. Will be thinking of all of you as we break trail.
 

Yes it appears a storm coming through many areas Saturday.  While I don't like riding through storms looks like I'm heading to Barrage Grouin from Lac St Ann for Saturday night for my first ride of the season. Will be thinking of all of you as we break trail.
 

Classic:
 
 

31 December 
-2c  storm over solid 6” new snow
it is a start, gonna take a couple more like that at least to get the groomers rolling here

Go North!! My Friend is in Matagami right now😊

bonjour !!!
yesterday pics !!!
-10c and grey sky this morning !!!
 
jean-guy

Nice picking the location that works best for you ! 
 
Just mounted my new Zumo XT. Hopefully it's as reliable as my 660lm was . 

I'm hoping it improves between now and January 11 when some of these areas go back to orange or better

After having given your response some careful consideration, it would seem to me that if you have no faith in the institution that decides the leadership of the world's second largest democracy (United States) or in much of the other of the governmental establishments, then perhaps we north of the border should pay some attention. It would follow that we would not want the taint of this corruption to flow into our country.
Your institutional criminal record keeping being suspect, perhaps much further scrutiny at border crossings is warranted - instead of the usual wave and "have a good time" we should more rigourously investigate any drunk driving, drug dealing, weapons offenses, wife beating, assaults...in fact anything which is equivalent to Canada's criminal code and would therefore prevent entry. For life.
We should also be wary of vehicle registration...are ownerships, insurance, and vehicle condition acceptable to our standards? We can't be sure according to the various registration systems from whence you came....perhaps a stringent search of vehicles and trailers for contraband or weapons "for personal protection" is warranted. You must get that "border security" show down in the U.S.
Should vaccination against covid19 be mandatory for border crossing...how do we really know those confirming certificates are real?
Extrapolating further, as it seems like the majority of anti-maskers, anti-safe distancers, anti-vaxxers, gun toting protesters are registered to vote as Republicans, maybe we ought to start a check list about this affiliation as well...although there are some good ones.
There are those that will start the usual bleeting about the economy being depressed with so many turned away, but we're just fine thanks.

 
Two feet of snow here...getting ready to ride some back roads. Have a nice (Boxing) day.
 

joyeux noel !!!
merry christmas !!!
 
jean-guy

I would like to wish all my friends and fellow Quebec Riders my best wishes for the Holiday and the up coming year. May you all enjoy family and friends, happiness, good health and great prosperity in 2021.
Hope to see you soon,
Steven
 

hello, hello
Good News!!! We have obtained the agreement of the MTQ to open the route 117 trail between Saint-Faustin and Mont-Tremblant this season. The opening of the 9.2 km trail will reconnect the Laurentians and Laanaudi èrere and contribute economic and tourism to the 2 regions.
A big thank you to all the collaborators on this issue.

The search for snow and open trails for the first ride was very limited this year. Then all the problems with the Pandemic didn’t make it any easier.
We live in Ottawa which is considered a orange zone so if we want to stay together in a condo or cabin it will have to be in a orange zone. Lucky to see Sacre-Lecour is yellow zone and with the new restrictions put in place two days earlier it will be considered a orange zone and the trails are groomed and marked green. Bam book a cabin at 5 Ferm Etoiles for Friday to Monday.
We leave Ottawa all loaded and ready for our eight hour drive at 5am. Great ride up all the way, 640 to bypass mtl, through Quebec City and up to meet the Ferry at Tadoussac.


As we pull up to wait for the Ferry we are stopped by the QPF. Asking us what our intentions are and where did we come from. We are a orange zone traveling to a orange zone. It’s discouraged to travel but can’t stop us, on we go. As we pull up to Sacre-Lecour there is now a road block. Same procedure and questions as before. We arrive at our cabin around 2pm, unpack, get sleds ready and off for a short 100km ride before coming back for dinner.
Leaving the small trial out of Le Ferm 5 is a bit thin but as soon as we get a little farther up the 93, it was snow heaven.

We took the Tq3 to Relais Escoumins, had a snack and beverage and then back to the cabin.
Saturday morning up and adam we are on the snow for 9am, plan is to ride up the 93 to La Chappell, get gas, take the 267 to the Bras Louie and lunch at the out door smoke cookers at Destination Mont Valin. As we were on the 267 we stopped for a break halfway there and some other guys coming from there said the Bras Louie is down to dirt due to logging. We turn around head back to the 93 and head to Des. Mont Valin. Lunch was friggen awesome, sun was out and lots of people.

As we are coming to the ski hill the Fcmq had a trail stop checking for compliance.


After lunch it was back to La Chappell for fuel taking the secondary trail to get there. From there we took the long loop up towards Les Escoumins and back to the cabin. Back to the cabin late, 8pm with just over 380km for the day.
Sunday was going to be a easier day of riding as we were all a bit sore. Sunday we rode to Les Escoumins, a small loop out of there, then Relais Escoumins for a drink and back to the cabin for a total of 220 km.





It was a great trip. Left Monday morning for Ottawa. Hoping for Val-Dor towards the end of January since we still have no snow back home.

I though these were great, from a Canadian perspective

I though these were great, from a Canadian perspective

I though these were great, from a Canadian perspective

Happy December to everyone, been AWOL on here this fall , Waiting patiently for a good freeze up and  snow here in Maine.  The whole December Valin crew has been going thru withdrawal pains, but hey, that’s 2020😊
I was going thru some of my Dad’s picks this weekend from the mid 70’s and ran across this trail map. Wow have they come a long way! 

 
Got a chuckle out of the pricing, $20 for an individual season pass, $30 for the family or $5 a day!

Even back than they had the best trails in the world, groomed to perfection, just not so wide!

 

 
 

bonsoir !!!
back from camp and lake !!!
 
jean-guy

bonsoir !!!
late this afternoon , went half a mile up logging rd !!!
 
jean-guy

Lots of Sleds there tonight. Running down from Mont Valin

 

Latest news is.....
in partnership between club Les Ours Blancs, Club Alliance du Nord and Relais Pensive, Lépine road will be groomed this winter. We will take it either via TQ 63 in lavérendrye Park or Rabaska lodge area. Looks like relais pensive has its own groomer.
This is a great alternative going to abitibi since 63/386 being closed. This is a top quality trail. Fast!!

While I was wary of Trump after having read "his" book "Art of the Deal"  back in the '80s I respected the courage of Americans to experiment with electing a business person, instead of a politician to office....certainly Clinton did not deserve the walk to the presidency that most folks anticipated. But Trump's obvious character flaws have led to a failure of this experiment and I hope the U.S. can move on to something better. It might take some time I guess.

I understand Repos is for sale. Maybe a group buy from you fellows will get you up here. And then maybe fix it up.

So you're telling me there's a chance