NH-Moose

Go get em Caroline! I just had to run this through the Ai ;<)

Affirmative

Qualipieces Trek dual runner carbides collect golfball size rocks like crazy. Probably had 20 rocks stuck in the past 2 days. 15 cleared on their own, others required prying them free. old school Pilot 5.7 skis

Few pics of the last riding day, Mt St Pierre to the trucks in Matane.

Best wishes to Patrick and Julie on their new endeavors after running the motel and restaurant in Mt St Pierre, we will miss them and this great stop!

Yes wng, today riding back to Matane to the trucks.

This is how to eat a banana!

Appetizers combos at Hotel Frasier, and Sugar Pie for Phil

Arrived at Motel Caribou, many Quebecriders here having supper last night! Pics of yesterday

Our timing was great arriving at La Cache between during a lull, lots of groups arrived while we were eating. A view of the summer hang glider bluff in Mt St Pierre above the hotel. We didn’t ride up to the peak this trip though. Brisket Chili, smoked duck, smoked wings, brisket burgers and pulled pork at Delice…..awesome!

Always a good sign when you check the groomer activity first thing in the morning and see they are heading your way starting at 3:30 AM!

The big naturally formed snow wheel on the 595 has shrunk a bit since March 1st when I took this photo of Mark wrestling it out of the bank

Thank you Mike! I need to work on not having my footprints or shadows in my pics like Groomers great Gaspe pics 😁

A breakfast stop at Tim Hortons in Degelis, then a quick 65 mikes to the truck by 9:20. Time to take the black trail and trailer home before tonights 8” snow due in NH tonight. Was a great ride, as always!

Perspective: Me and Mark I rolled up on the scene about an hour after the event. I saw red tape strung across the trail just before the downhill, slowed, and passed under the tape to slow roll forward to see why the trail was “closed” so close to town. Just over the crest I saw a groomer and a bunch of people on the right of it. I assumed it was just a groomer that broke down mid-slope and riders were simply trying to get by it in the woods to its right…..in the fluff at the treeline. There were a lot of people standing around. But then i noticed sleds in orientations that were not normal, as in the rubber side was not down, one front was facing the wrong way, or on their side wedged into the tractor track or drag here and there. Closer, I could see a bunch of people in the “V” where the tractor and drag appeared sort of jack-knived. They were working on a person on a stretcher. There was the groomer driver, paramedics, and others in the riding party. I could see an ATV and a side by side, thats how the first responders got there before Mark and I. Was a confusing scene, even being right there, hard to figure out, even now. The hill was loose show….sloppy mashed potatoes….poor traction for sure, no wonder no one could stop in a downhill “surprise” situation. Mark went up the hill to park his sled by the one strip of red tape across was was kind of hard to see and we didn’t want to be piled onto. I first talked to Chris since he was at the rear sitting on his Enduro. Introductions made and he said we were the first sleds to come up behind them from our direction (Squatec) in an hour. He then explained the situation. We waited for Police to arrive to document the scene before anything could be moved. Once that happened everyone involved was ferried away and firemen began to clear the damaged sleds. While we were there, 2 other NH riders approached and eventually we all fired up and passed in the ditch on the left of the groomer. We had leap frogged Chris’s group several times between Murdochville and La Cache. All I can say is they were lucky, could have been much worse or further from a road, or 30 below, etc. just bad planetary alignment of timing, location, conditions, etc. And a speedy recovery to Jeffrey!

Some pics from Mark

Best trail ever near Amqui