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Wishing everyone a Great Winter ✌️
 

Wishing everyone a Great Winter ✌️
 

bonjour lindasledgirl !!!
 
merci for sharing  !!! very appreciated  !!!
hope for great season with lots of snow !!!
 
jean-guy

My pleasure! Hopefully we get your permit sales even higher this year. 
 
Do you happen to remember how many permits sold for your club last season? 
 
 

bonjour  !!!
 
yaaa...hope so !!!
if memory still good...around 30-32 !!!
finally ,sunshine is back ....might for a pirouette on the z e c !!! ahahah
 
jean-guy
 
 

We all think it's far...but once you're there, you'll know why we make the trip and it won't seem as long a drive.
L

Here's some update for trail conditions in La Tuque / Parent area!
All trails are open for La Tuque,and in good to great conditions, since we didn't get rain in the area this week.(actually almost didn't get any this year)
There will be a little detour on the 355 next week between St-Joseph-de-Mékinac /Mattawin and La Tuque. And there is a detour on TQ 73 towards St-Raymond because of logging (extra 30 km).
TQ 83 Toward Wemotaci / Parent / Clova is in good condition as well!
TQ 13 towards the Fer-à-Cheval is great and the Bazin ice bridge is safe (they started to use it with the groomer before Christmas!)
Tons of snow in Barrage Gouin area (snowpack is 4-5 ft deep alrealdy). Fresh powder everywhere and all the sweet spots for backcountry are still untouched!!! Also the access trail is in very good condition from the TQ 83.
 
The 345 through Kanawata toward Lac-du-Repos is open and in good conditions: but: From Kanawata going  south, it uses the main road (not sanded and fast) toward the Repos.
 
Can it get any better ? The 345 between Kanawata and Casey, on Jan.18th!

The Manawan Club (Kanawata) have been working to open the official trail all week and it should be ready on Saturday (21st) through Lac Chateauvert.
 
Finally, the TQ 83 is open and in good conditions from Clova to Senneterre; but forget about the Woodrunner trail, for now, (going South from Clova). Some guys did it but it's very rough and hasn't been groomed and cleaned. They should be able to get on it next week!
 

Bill so glad your ok .......    Happened to me last year I was lucky I didn't get hurt and was able to ride the sled back to truck 350 miles
 P.S.   I always say don't think it can't happen to you nobody's invincible

Posted today:
Pourvoirie Barrage Gouin & Magnan
1 hr ·  Le gouin devrais être fini de balisé demain au plus tard vendredi et les sentiers sont excellents en PLUS la température parfaite pour le fin de semaine
The Gouin should be finished marked tomorrow at the latest on Friday and the trails are excellent plus the temperature is perfect for the end of week

They are staking a trail through the reservoir again! 
That's terrific, I'll have to do it once more.

Bill so glad your ok .......    Happened to me last year I was lucky I didn't get hurt and was able to ride the sled back to truck 350 miles
 P.S.   I always say don't think it can't happen to you nobody's invincible

Tom must have been  breaking his ass  by himself lugging that pig around in the deep snow ❄️.     Just glad everything turned out good    
 

WOW .    Glad you guys are ok  

Bill so glad your ok .......    Happened to me last year I was lucky I didn't get hurt and was able to ride the sled back to truck 350 miles
 P.S.   I always say don't think it can't happen to you nobody's invincible

You're not alone  Jackstraw ... 

LOOKS LIKE WINTER FOR SURE ....   Safe Trip !

Just to finish this up please no one be offended. 

SHIT  .....   Awesome Run Iceman     Love seeing all that snow

Day 5  
5-6" new snow at Gouin here last night. Fluffy stuff.


Awesome to be back there at Barrage Gouin. I did not make it up at all last year and missed it there. Carol, Jonny, Louise and met Steve this time around make your time there so great. Nice to have good conversations with them folks. Like being with family. If you've never been then get up there and support them. Great place and great People. Always tough to leave but we must be moving on.
Sleds loaded and we decide it's down the road to skip the top half of the trail. We've broke enough trail and gonna be doing alot more by the looks of things. So down the road to join back up with the trail back to 83.


Man there is a lot of snow we are breaking its deep in spots here. So we get down to 83 and its just as deep. So 45km from Gouin to 83. Deep snow single track I have had enough breaking trail for this year. Quit praying to the snow gods. Enough up here for sure. Snowing and flat light.

Also trees bent over or down all along.

Into Wemontachie. Here we take the road right to Wemogaz.
it's open
From gas we again decide its time to stay on the road so 25km up we then turn right onto trail. Unbroken has been groomed before but has a ton of new snow on it. Halfway through here comes 4 guys with red dry bags on back. These guys are dangerous they are dangerous on their first day out and more dangerous after 2-3 days out cause now they think they got the hang of it. Hey they busted trail good enough for us. Closer to Windigo there is Logging so pay attention. Back and forth across the road and the trucks are hauling ass. Well logs but not slowly. 
Cruised into Relais 22 following in tracks busted open for us. 
News at Relais 22 heard from Louise at Gouin that 22 has new owners. We had tge pleasure of Meeting Christine who along with her husband Martin have come from Baie Comeau to own and operate Relais 22. Super nice and she speaks very good english too, just speak slowly. I hope to meet her husband on the way back by there tmmrw. Wishing them all the best and great success. Take the time to support them and tell them you are a Quebec Rider. I think they may want to become an advertiser. We shall see. 
Anyway while there we see the Suerte du Quebec truck and sled trailer there. She tells us they are conducting a search for a missing man who phoned his wife saying he was stuck on snowmobile coming from his chalet. 
This was yesterday. 
Good news is we took gas and went up 83 to check it out. At 50km we were turning back when cops pull up. They found the guy. He abandoned his sled and they followed his footsteps to a nearby chalet where he broke in door and lit the fire and waited for help. Great Job by the police. Hats off.
We ride back following the cops they were blazing a trail. Snohorse tried to get them to put on there lights so we could have a official police escort but no dice. 
Back to 22 tank again and absolutely hammer it back to Windigo. Hell one or two more passes through they won't need to groom it i will have it blown open fully. Windigo driveway a few hanging low trees but has tracks and we roll in. So nice to see Martine and nice to be here. 
We are here with only one other guy a Guide out of Lac Blanc doing some pre running for an upcoming group. If you want to stay at Windigo (crazy if you do not want to) then call soon to check the dates it's booking up fast.
thats it for now 222 miles today. 

 
Decisions Decisions 


 
Now a special message to all Team Iceman members not in QC at this time.....
"the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains, and the man with the blue shoes is not who he appears to be." Over.

After working a ten hour shift Monday night, loaded the truck, kissed the wife and pets and headed up to RDL/Universal Hotel.  Picked the sled up at the dealer on the way up.         Arrived Tuesday evening, dark out but looks like lots of snow and perfect conditions.
Now here it is Wednesday morning, looks like an inch of snow fell and has changed to a very light rain.Will wait it out a couple days and keep everyone up to date on conditions.
My beloved 2010 Ram 4.7 V8 finally was eaten away by rust, probably caused by whatever Canada uses to coat the roads in the winter. Still ran like new, favorite all time truck, and was hoping for another three years out of her. The new Ram Hemi 5.7 goes so perfect in every way it almost lacks personality. But wow, does the Hemi shit and go, Hard to believe a pick up truck can accelerate that fast. Gas mileage pretty good at 75 and under and no sled in the bed. 85 and sled in back and you'll wish you owned a gas station.
mike
 

La Tuque Club very active on Facebook
major tree clean up on 83 west to wemotaci under way
 

Thx so much Don really nice of you and much appreciated.  

And more SNOW on the Way !!!!!     

Thx so much Don really nice of you and much appreciated.  

Thx so much Don really nice of you and much appreciated.