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These late season pictures are fantastic! The third week of March is typically the latest I'm there, I'm going to have to re-evaluate...

Jesus, I must be getting old. Between the trail shredding, skis in the air and hard left riding, I couldn't finish watching it...

0 miles here. No Quebec = no sledding. Sold the sled while the market was high & putting all my hopes into next year!

Great pictures! Thanks for posting!

My wife and I looked heavily at purchasing two different motel/restaurants over the last few years, one in Northern New Brunswick and one in the Charlevoix. The math is not even close to nice, It's a miracle that a lot of these places are even open at all...

It would be pretty hard to go wrong starting in the Riviere du loup area. The grooming is top notch and you can put on a lot of miles and never be too far from your home base. Really easy to cut a day short or extend it, as you may find that a 150 miles is an easier day on their trails. And (pre-Covid) there are lots of trail side stops and services. The Universal and the Levesque are two to the better hotels in town. Most years the second week of March is safe for snow around town.

Neat App, trails look like they are coming along.

The Delice has a self contained two story townhouse which is pretty good, kitchenette, etc. Food at Motel Mont St. Pierre is way better. We typically stay in St. Anne Des Mont at the Hotel & Cie. or have stayed in Grande-Vallee at the Maree Haute Motel. Maree Haute is one of those neat and clean places, not fancy. Good food, but you have to walk across a parking lot to get it. It's better than its two stars imply..

Thanks! That is similar to the Kms I have gotten, 25,000km has been the max so far. I was just wondering what others experiences were.

Hi Alain, just curious if you are on your original track?

Nice to see those snowplow rolls getting higher!

Fantastic videos Alain! Thank you so much for posting!

I was happy to see that the sugar shack has new owners and have reopened in the winter. We've stopped there quite a bit over the years, always liked that spot!

Hard to get used to the glass bathroom doors...might be okay with the wife..but a little strange with a foul weather friend..

Nice to see that they are staying safely in the middle of trail..

Looks like Lac Baker/Packington area?

I was some glad to see that green warming hut one night a couple of winters ago at -28C. Took an hour in there just to start to thaw out..

Wow, fantastic pictures, great find!

Hope you have a great day Jean-Guy!

Those fellows wore out before they rusted out..

It sure has come a long way! Pretty much committed once you started on those loops..

Love the old pictures! Even my back was reminiscing about how soggy those old late 80's early 90's Formulas were, and the triples were ungodly heavy!

Awesome story!

At the end of February 2006 my new Yamaha Rage only had 110 kms on it. Trying Quebec was always in the cards for “someday”, but with a shut out for snow in Nova Scotia, someday was now! Thankfully, two other friends also had new gear with no miles, so the arm twisting was minimal! We set off from PALC on an early March morning, and by the time I reached the top of the ski hill I knew that I would be screwed for ever sledding around home again! In 2008, five of us did the Matane, Godbout, Chicoutimi, Quebec City loop. Met Saguenay Bill and had bookings with Bernard at the Motel Safari until a blizzard changed our plans. Called Bernard to cancel and he told me “That's fucking sleddin”. I never did get to stay there or meet him. Actually only ever got across the St. Lawrence that one time. So much good trail from St. George to Gaspe that it gets hard to justify trucking further.. In 2008, flogging it for the ferry in Matane, I came around a corner after the St. Fidele cable bridge to meet a New Holland groomer with a heavily bearded operator in it. Being half shy and a little short on time, I missed my chance to meet Jean-Guy and have never been able to catch up with him since. Same goes for Andyman, positive I fueled up beside him in Amqui that very same day. Met Eddieskidoo in a blizzard on the Gaspe in about 2014. We turned around and him and Skidoo420 kept going towards Mt. St. Pierre. If I remember right, they never made it and had to get trucked back. Wild snow, I think that there was 70cm by the end of it. Anyway, I am trying to talk a little more to the folks I meet on the trail in case they are members here. Always nice to put a face to a name. I haven't bought a local trail pass in a few years, one local mile is harder on gear than 10 up there. That, along with the hospitality and availability of services, makes it hard to turn a track at home. Some year though, I am going to sled up there right from my door, just to say I did it. One of the cool things is; of the two guys I went with in 2006, I have always gone up with one, if not both of them every year since. Sometimes you just gel with certain guys. As others have said, this website is the icing on the cake of the best sledding I have ever done! Thanks to all the contributors for their time!

Old Forge is a beautiful area, I could only imagine the traffic there.