SnomoGary

Merry Xmas everyone! And a safe and Happy new Year!

Merry Christmas to all my QR friends north and south of the border.
 

Merry Christmas and happy new year 

Merry Christmas to all.  Prefer to build a snowman instead 

.Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas Don , and merry Christmas to all QR members.  Hope you have a great time with  friends and family.....   think snow  guy's. 😊😊

With #1 scheduled for 1/14 it's just days away from asking for real...
"What will it be like in two weeks?"
Feliz Navidad!

joyeux noel a tous !!!
 
jean-guy

Merry Christmas Don , and merry Christmas to all QR members.  Hope you have a great time with  friends and family.....   think snow  guy's. 😊😊

Merry Christmas everyone and lets hope the snow Gods are good to us in the New Year!!!!

Merry Christmas to all the guys and girls, on both sides of the border and ocean that make this site what it is. A great QuebecRider family. 

Merry Christmas all. Let it be known all I want for Christmas is 4 feet of snow in Quebec. 

The weather forecast predicts cold but not much for new snow.  If all goes well, we will be heading up Dec 27th.
Jack & Sandi

hi steve !!!
 
positive......yes ...no problemo !!!
 
jean-guy

joyeux noel a tous !!!
 
jean-guy
 

We beat feet home yesterday in an effort to beat any ice storm...Had a good run all new equipment worked very well now to get Christmas out of the way and plan next ride.

I'm delighted to know he was able to sign up despite the many frustrations / roadblocks he encountered during his initial attempts in becoming an advertiser.
 
  

How many times have you wondered if your heated shield was actually working? So many things can go wrong from the shield, to the 3 or more cables, to the connector on the sled, to the fuse. You can try swapping cables with your buddy but that can still take a long time to get up to temperature. This small, lightweight, inexpensive little device makes it easy to figure out where the problem is, and it also doubles as a small flashlight for looking at maps or inspecting the sled at night.
 
This has been recommended by your fellow QR members in other posts, so if you have any questions, feedback, or experiences, please feel free to discuss them here...

Don't know what your looking for but check out the Delta. Very nice spot.

Everybody gets lucky one time in there life .  Was in the area wed night on our way to mattiwin,  and saw that a groomer crossed highway 155 in shawinigan  and said maybe tonite ...   Dave and myself road all around the lecabinon area thurs and fri.   then home yesterday.      Don, thanks for the fun  before the season starts.     Hope to see all of you guys soon. And to all the other people who guessed ,there's always next yr ,     Ed

On Saturday, December 15 Krikri and I once again started our ride from near the Lac Blanc outfitter in St-Alexis des Monts accompanied by Steph, Snowcruiser and his friend Michel. My first idea was to go exploring on the #23 east side  but we had to adjust our plan and instead we had dinner at the St-Zénon village then in the afternoon made a loop between the Taureau dam and the Mattawin River Bridge and been back via #23 north toward our starting point, a total trip of 175miles.
The interactive map has still not been updated but this time I started the tracking on my  Inreach satellite beacon that generated me a gps track of my ride that I put on a snowmobile map to give you a real view of the current configuration in the Mastigouche reserve. I suggest you to keep this image as a reference. If anyone ever needed my .gpx track file you can contact me privately here or via facebook.

Cloudy sky and very mild temperature (around the freezing point since the evening before)at start so expecting softer trail base for the ride

The trees were still snow loaded and just lose a bit during the day with the mild weather.


The trail was not just groomed (but ok) probably because of the mild weather and also the work overload for the club that ares still in branches cutting to open their other trails.

Once on the #23 trail, we tried  some exploration on the east side

but we have not done a quarter mile, the trail is still full of fallen trees. I read today on the facebook site of the Mastigouche snowmobile club that they decided to use the big machinery to open the remaining trails not done yet... not easy this season. This is the#23 trail  right in front in this pic and it's alot worst at many other places

So we turned back and took the #23 in west direction which was perfect

towards the middle of the reserve, we forked  towards the south in Cabanon direction

Just before arriving there is a miles along the plow road where the snow is dirty but it's not really bad

We then switched toward the village of St-Zénon

It is a more mountainous segment which was more bumpy but we met the dozer in it

We went at the gaz station a little south of the village of St-Zénon also hoping to eat at the next door restaurant but the restaurant was closed. It is supposed to open within a few weeks, according to the gaz station clerk. So we came back a little and went at an other restaurant just at the south entrance of the St-Zénon village.

After lunch we retraced our steps

Pass the Cabanon

And went to the Taureau reservoir dam


We took a break there and then crossed the dam to do a loop via #360 trail up to the #345 junction

that we took toward south to cross the river by the bridge


rear view

We then rode down to the #23 junction where we took another break

then taking the #23 east which is further north this year, on the #31 road of the reserve

We then joined the morning path a little further and continued toward our trailers. Here taking the #350 trail at Gaston

We were back to the trailer around 5:30 pm with 175 miles on the dreammeter. The trails suffered a bit of the mild weather but kept better than  expected, a very nice ride overall.
The clubs continue to work hard to open the trails, the wood transport was ended on the 15 dec on the #360 toward Marineau so the trail network will continue to expand in the next day. 
Take a look here for the last new: https://www.snowmobilecountry.ca/en/conditions/
:bc:
Alain

Congrats Eddie !  I missed it by a few hours...story of my life haha.