Shane

Hard to see but surely that is snow falling at Chez Ice, don’t think it will be rideable, not even in two weeks, but nice to see this Sunday AM. 
#justamatteroftime 

Friend of mine, Dannydoo, just emailed regarding Air Medic and a new deal they offer this year where you can buy it for a 3 month period for $50 + tax, CA$.  Check it out here.  https://www.airmedic.net/en/subscribe/  Sounds great to me, I just subcribed.

Tadaa!
I'll try to get some interior ones later!
GutZ

Long-Hair wants a Turbo and SunRoof add to it!
No-Hair may live in it at the Delta for the Winter!!
GutZ

I will say we have had some heavy Frost many mornings and its much earlier than we had any last year. 

ALERT | The region could receive up to 20 centimeters of snow tomorrow!
Environment Canada issued a winter storm warning for the following cities: Amos, La Sarre, Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Malartic, Rouyn-Noranda, Senneterre and Val-d'Or. This snow will be accompanied by blowing snow and strong winds.

Won't be long now.....Perhaps this will be a real Quebec winter this year !

Does anyone else get the error message Gateway time out frequently like I do?

The Skidoo Dealer Knows NOT to call when parts come in. Or it may be the last ones they sell me!
GutZ
 

800steve..lmfao I love it...

Heard back from Alain. He said the Minister, exact words, that he cut the money for all bridges and other extras for the clubs in Abitibi, but we are fighting it and it does look promising right now. Hopefully they have started to get it under control. 

I am going to the Snowmobile Show in Drummondville tomorrow and will look up some FCMQ folks and get their input.

Writing to a politician is a great idea and I would do that. If someone could post names to write to would help the American riders. We have the same problem here in the Adirondacks and this is the reason I love Quebec so much plus the trails are the best. I just don't want to write a letter and have it sit on the wrong desk.
Only my thoughts. Possibly write a letter with all the American Quebec Riders signatures on it. Strength in numbers.

It is not time to look for another hobby, it is time to fight for the one we love.  Write a letter to a politician and tell them you look forward to coming to Quebec every winter and spend huge amounts of money.  Changing snowmobiling as we know it could make you consider other places to vacation.
 
Don't let the tree huggers win....FIGHT THEM!!

I saw that too JG, we need to hope this don’t happen. Too much Government bullshit, plain and simple. 
That MFFP is in bed with the tree huggers and this is bad news for us. 

I don't have a good answer, I just know that every time the government gets involved (here in the USA) progress is slowed to a snails pace , the cost is insane and as usual there is no tracking of where all the money goes or any accountability. I doubt it is much different in Canada. First thing I would like to see is where all the money ends up from the trail passes and other money collected throughout the season. One thing I have learned ( and I am not very bright) is throwing money at a problem is not always the answer....Look at Chicago for instance.

This SnoMoButton would also give a business(es) and province a truer view of the financial impact from snowmobiling.
GutZ
 

I agree with a shortage of funding for sure.  Some are saying we don't need the extra costs in bridges and culverts, here I disagree.  We need expertise in the infrastructure projects, this helps to ensure the bridges and culverts installed can handle the water flow from the drainage areas the water comes from.  There are way too many undersized installations in now that will washout in the future.  The new crossings are designed to handle the extra flow that our extreme weather seems to be a regular occurrences now.  We need to make sure trail dollar spent will with stand extreme weather and not fail.  Club volunteers have been doing a great job at this for years, however the demographic is changing and there are less volunteers and more hiring contractors to do these jobs, lets do them right the first time.
 
As for funding assistance:  I would like to see a snowmobile button on every cash register in the province, for any snowmobile related purchase whether it be: purchasing new or used sled, accessories, gas, lodging,......and so on.  From this take 3 or 4% off the provincial tax and direct it to the FCMQ for funding infrastructure or trail projects and equipment. 
 
My $0.02 worth. 

They could increase the trail pass or stop offering the early buy-in. But they should ear mark the $$ for Volunteers and Grooming.
GutZ

Yup, 
sounds like the Government needs to pay up more money to these clubs. It Is the Government that benefits the most from all the Tax$$$$$ that snowmobile tourism brings to Quebec. Need to spend money to make money. 
Things are getting way too complicated for simple Sh*t, if they had all the expert engineers and freaking environmental studies back years ago we would still be riding in horse and buggy and living by candlelight. Enough with the overthinking of simple stuff. Clubs been building bridges for many moons. If it holds the Surfacer then good enough. No need to make it more complicated than it needs to be. Things are getting ridiculous. 
I have no doubt in the coming years we are in serious jeopardy of losing alot of interconnection between regions. 
 

Blake in action, NH Grass Drags couple of years ago

Damn nice Formula !

OMG I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!  Have fun and be safe!

OMG I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!  Have fun and be safe!

I recently learned of a feature on the iPhone that all iPhone users should take advantage of, ESPECIALLY if you have a pre-existing condition of ANY TYPE!  It's FREE!  We have found it very useful in the volunteer fire/rescue service.
The app is already on your iPhone and it costs NOTHING!  It is one of the icons on one of your home screens right from Apple.  The icon is called Health and is a white square with a red heart in it.  Click on it and find the app you want to complete called MEDICAL ID.  If you open the app and fill it out with all of your information it could save your life.  The app can be opened EVEN IF THE PHONE IS LOCKED!  When you click your phone's home button and it brings up the pad for you to enter your password, you will notice on the bottom left the word EMERGENCY.  Touch that and it brings up the dial pad to call 911, once you have filled out the MEDICAL ID information it will show as *Medical ID on the bottom left of your screen.  First responders or friends can touch where it says *Medical ID and all of the information you entered comes up.  I have found that sometimes opening it once all of your information will not appear, simply touch DONE in the top right and re-open and everything is there.  First responders are now becoming aware of this app and your riding partners should know about it as well.
If you have any questions please let me know and I will try and help anyway I can.  Have a GREAT RIDE!