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Windigo or relais 22? Was a toss up for our group and I picked 22 (which was great) but maybe Windigo is the place to be?

This is the snow level and trail at font brune on 30JAN.

Last day (3.5). 100 lacs back to the truck at font brune. Dinner was great at 100 lacs, we even had the “honey moon suite” above the restaurant which is interesting. trails were good till st Anne du lacs after which they sucked. Just not enough snow. Like others mentioned the groomers are doing miracles with what they have. back to the truck by noon completing our 1220 km trip. Happy trails!

Yep. Wish doo could make the easy fix and install more robust rollers!

Day 3 relais 22 to 100 lacs via Parent and the decelles river crossing 😁 realis 22 was great, service was good and very friendly and the pork was great as well! Lunch was a snack in parent at the general store. The longer version of the river crossing is in the other thread but 50 kms was ungroomed (we knew about this and decided to run it) between 345 and parent. Then we checked on the progress of the new bridge and bashed across via the river. after parent we arrived to 100 lacs for the night by 6 pm with another 370 kms (including one wrong turn!). And we have another busted secondary roller to report on a doo g4 with 5000 kms, but luckily it didn’t slow us down and we were able to just run it as is for the remainder of the trip. The trails were great all day. Best yet. however there is a bumpy and stick section before and after Wemotaci. http://quebecrider.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2024_02/IMG_5204.thumb.jpeg.0efe6c6360beca349f94b484cf147154.jpeg

Alright, time for day 2 updates (Sunday 28JAN). Stayed at Marineau Mattawin - good spot but nothing fancy. Rode to relais 22 miles via the 355 shortcut (see other thread for how that went). Trails were a lot better today and only got better as you went north. Had lunch at the La Tuque deli. http://quebecrider.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2024_01/IMG_5195.thumb.jpeg.f6f68eefe06cb296d399e040f14f5c93.jpeg http://quebecrider.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2024_01/IMG_5199.thumb.jpeg.d47ea598b178d30b8ba45f965a5372a5.jpeg

it was a bit deeper closer to the bank - but not much deeper. Like Markus said lots of big rocks and steep bank. It was the ackward depth of not deep enough where the rocks were in the water to water skip, and deep in between the rocks. As well the path to the water was not straight either. it was damed up and no rocks on the bank but then they added the rocks so we had to go through in a different area. When we got there they had big rocks on the bank and were working right in the area. See this picture - you can see the timber they had in the water to dam it up to help when the excavator crossed and the cribs were put in. http://quebecrider.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2024_01/IMG_5225.thumb.jpeg.6b1fbf98a9d1d8c03f3a54d6ac78ec4a.jpeg

Yep, they celebrated when we got across!

Picture was from Monday - 29jan. I’d bet another week of work but the deck is 75% done just the approaches and railing left. Forgot to get some more pictures.

We rode through that trail on Sunday. It’s fine. Rough moguls from the turnoff of 351 but there was enough snow and the logging sections are not great but not that bad either. There were worse trails that were green coming from Mt Laurier area on Saturday in my opinion.

Well we are wrapping up our 3.5 day trip so let’s start at day 1. Font Brune to Mattawin. Trails were rough but we got through our 430 kms by 8 pm. This route via 63 needs more snow (it looks like they made some of it yellow now which is accurate). Happy to be on the trails.