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I put together a list of hotels via google earth with the phone numbers and address linked. If you view it with the FCMQ google earth trail map it makes planing a little easer. http://www.mediafire.com/?tylneyb2xzi It may help with your guide.
What am I doing wrong I can't get it to load??
Thanks
Bob
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Great report,
I'm headed up that way this sunday for five days but can't make up my mind were to ride :wacko:
Bob
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My 76 + (364) year old Dad and I will be up that way on the 16th, for the week if anyone wants to meet up.
Bob
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Rob
Great photos and congrats on keeping up with the "energizer bunny on NOZ" (Bill, 5:29 am post
)I hope those gloves he has don't start growing or he will have another nickname..............ok I am jealous, I want a pair too.My Dad and I will up there on Sun. the 16th so don't take all the snow away.
Bob
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Bob
Leaving for home on the 14th.
Bill
Thank you Bill, We'll have to catch you next year.
Bob
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When I came in this afternoon I noticed 2 Poloaris sleds with many different trail passes on them. I immediately said to myself,"Dave is here". Sure enough farmerold and Joanie are here. They left Real Masse on Jan 30 and went to Manitoba and then turned around and came back east. At this point they have 5,000 miles on the trip. I've asked him to please post his trip repor once he gets home so we can all enjoy it. Here is Dave and Joanie.
WOW!!! They are Great.........now let me get this calculator to figure out how long before I can Doo the same,...darn calculator just started humming and smoking. :wacko:
Congrats to you Two
I don't want to miss your trip report. rfm2410@yahoo.comBob
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Hey Bill, have you ever seen this place? ha ha!
Has anyone been able to stump bill on a picture yet ?
Bill, My best chance to get back up there to ride is 3/16 (eve) for whole week. Will you still be there?
Bob McFall
(VA :wacko: )
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Wow those are some great pictures, are there places to stay up there or how far do you need to ride from (the rock).
I really would like to ride up and see that.
Thanks
Bob
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WOW!!! what a ride. (so those little blue pills doo help staying in the saddle) LOL
Thanks for the great report.
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St. Agatha snowmobiler robbed after races
By Beurmond Banville
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - Bangor Daily News
ST. AGATHA - Saturday was a good day for St. Agatha snowmobile racer Scott Gagnon who won two races and placed third in three others at the Canadian-U.S. World Series Championships in St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec.
But Sunday morning was a nightmare.
Coming out of his motel with his luggage that morning, he realized that his truck, trailer and three racing sleds were gone.
Gagnon said the loss amounted to more than $100,000. He won $500 racing on Saturday.
Along with his 2003 three-quarter ton, bright red GMC Duramax diesel, Gagnon lost a 2002 Interstate four-sled trailer, three custom-built racing snowmobiles — one of which was valued at more than $30,000 — tools, his cache of spare snowmobile parts, his wallet with cash and his passport, which were all in the glove compartment.
None of his property has been recovered by Quebec police.
"It was a good start of the weekend, winning races on Saturday and all," Gagnon, 35, said Monday. "It was a really bad day on Sunday.
"Everything was locked up," he said. "They [the thieves] were very good at what they do."
He still had the keys to his pickup truck and to the lock on the snowmobile trailer on Monday.
It was Gagnon’s first time to that area of Quebec. St. Joseph de Beauce is located on Route 73 about halfway between the Maine border at Jackman and Quebec City.
Gagnon has raced snowmobiles since he was a boy, and has often raced in Riviere du Loup, Quebec, and Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Gagnon and two friends arrived at the race venue on Friday and did some snowmobile runs, fine tuning the racing machines. They left the trailer and snowmobiles at the track, where there was security on Friday night, but took everything with them to the motel on Saturday night, looking for an early start home on Sunday.
The trio arrived at the motel around 9 p.m. Saturday, had dinner there, and all was well when they went into their rooms for the night.
They discovered the theft at about 8 a.m. Sunday.
Gagnon said police told him these kinds of thefts are an ongoing problem in that snowmobile racing area. Police can’t get a lock on things, he said.
Gagnon said police told him Sunday that his truck was "probably already in a container on a ship bound for Europe" and the sleds were likely in a warehouse somewhere in Quebec being dismantled.
Police told Gagnon the people involved in the operations had probably been staking him out since Friday, shortly after he arrived. They told him that the thieves use handheld computers that override the truck’s computer, unlocking the doors and allowing entry. The handheld computer also overrides the pickup ignition system and starts the vehicle, allowing it to be driven away.
"It’s amazing what they can do," Gagnon said.
Police told him the thieves are part of organized crime in the province.
While his truck was insured, Gagnon was still not sure Monday whether the tools, snowmobile parts, computers, trailer and cash were covered by insurance.
He said he could not insure the snowmobiles because they were racing sleds.
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Happy Birthday Bernard!!!
Hope you enjoy the games. Feel free to add others.
GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER
1. Sag, you're It.
2. Hide and go pee
3. 20 questions shouted into your good ear.
4. Kick the bucket
5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over.
6. Musical recliners.
7. Simon says something incoherent.
8. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy
SIGNS OF MENOPAUSE:
1. You sell your home heating system at a yard sale.
2. You have to write post-it notes with your kids' names on them.
3. You change your underwear after a sneeze.
OLD IS WHEN:
1. You don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have
to go
along.
2. Getting a little action means I don't need fiber today.
3. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot.
4. An all-nighter means not getting up to pee!!
PONDERISMS
1. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people
die
of natural causes.
2. Garden Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing
a
weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the
ground
easily, it is a valuable plant.
3. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.
4. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
5. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world
is
weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
6. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a
whole
box to start a campfire?
7. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll
squeeze
these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out?'
8. Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there? I'm gonna
eat the
next thing that comes outta its butt.'
9. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Have a great day!
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here s the truth mustang .we had to hurry up to take the pics ,waitresses were running for us !!! ha !! ha !!! :)
groomer !!!
Glad you guys are quick runners.
Great report!!! and Photos. Where doo we sign up for the next trip?
Also I'm suprised you were able to catch Groomer off the trail...hope you bought a lottery ticket cause you were lucky.
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Great story, That and many more reasons is why I travel 20 hours to ride up there.
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rws,
Thank you very much for ALL that time you've put into this to help us "new to gps"
folks out. Also I showed my 8 and 9 year daughters, now they want to use it. 
Just wanted to let you know how much it's helping.
Thanks again,
Bob
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Mikerider, John W,sasconst and I rode 205 miles today. We went to St Rose du Nord and interrupted the filming of a movie. We were out on the Saguenay River and were coming back to shore. I got hung up on some big chunks of ice. While trying to get off the ice, my motor was making too much noise while they were trying to film. Guy told me I stopped 50 actors from doing their thing until we got out of there. Some pics from today.
Bill
Say hello to Sig and John for me (I'm the one with the 1000 renegade Sig had to tow in last year)
Hope to ride with you soon
Bob
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No thats not me in the picture (I would like to be up there) but I'll drink with her too, then she can lead me around the lobby :wacko:
Bob McFall
Also from VA to Ithaca (to pick up the sleds & trailer) then up to "Bill's" Place (HI) it's 997 miles. now is that :wacko: or what.
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Rob,
I was counting on you to do the cold weather testing on that helmet. I am stuck in LA (the land of fruits and nuts) and you are there enjoying those perfect trails. The LEAST you could do for us is a thorough testing of the BV2S :)
Have fun and leave some snow
Bill
LOL, "I am stuck in LA (the land of fruits and nuts)" Isn't that were they make that new convertable car....... the one that the top doesn't go down the driver does. LOL
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We, Rob, Mubs, Mikerider, Andyman and myself rode 225 miles today. Trails were great, temps were just right and scenery was great. A few pictures of our day.
WOW! nice pictures......I need to call in sick (for a week)
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Hey Rob,
Is that Robert McFall from Virginia petting Greta? Looks alot like him. He was up there last year when I was there. He should get an award for the rider driving from the most southern point in the states to ride.
Is the helmet still working OK? No elect. visor yet?
Bill
No thats not me in the picture (I would like to be up there) but I'll drink with her too, then she can lead me around the lobby :wacko:
Bob McFall
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RFM, just go do some loops and save the tracks............we'll take it from there
Will doo
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Hi Bill
Glad to see that the ol snow goose made it back to the camp.
Happy New Year and I hope to see you soon.
Bob
P.S. Thanks for the reports, Now I have something good to read every day.
I know it's a tough job but somebody has to doo it.
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I just got report back from the boys, They say the trails are fair to good, Sleds not heating up. Thats the best i can do.
Thank you Bernard,
Bob
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took a ride in town this pm and rain had started again .its was heavy for the first time since monday .
decided to post a few old pics (feb 19 -06 ) to let us remember how winter should looks like !!! 0 c .
groomer !!!
SOMEONE help me find that Deloren time mochine!
I need snow.Thanks Groomer...now I have to get back to my yard work. :wacko:
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I can't keep up shoveling 16 inches of powdery snow felt today :wacko:
Sorry to hear that, But I had to rake leaves and mow the lawn today.
(Man I need to move)I'll come help you shovel....then we can ride.
Pics of the Rock
in Gaspe Peninsula
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Thank you. Hope to make it up there soon.
Bob