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Looking to ride from Chapelle area to the HI in one day. I saw this shortcut might be closed???
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What's everones opinion on Auberge31? I am looking for a place to stay in the heart of Mt Valin. We are staying at the HI for a few nights too but I wanted to stay closer to the moutain to ride the ZEC too.
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Nice place. Just had a beer there last week. Not sure about the parking though I would give them a call to verify.
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We stayed at the La Cache three years ago. Not much fancier than a chicken coup but we did have a real nice stay. Met some nice people, had some good food, which made the stay nice. The guy and his wife running the place were real nice. Room was very warm and the toilet flushed.....What more can you ask for?
They completed a brand new facility maybe 5 years ago but made one little mistake. Don't store your Helicopter fuel on the porch.. Poof!!! all was lost to fire before it even opened....
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Just found this site from very limited information the people over at HCS gave me. It seems there is a bit of animosity over there for its founding member. I didn't go there that often so I was unaware of any of this. I asked where Rob was and people weren't all that helpful. Of course the topic was closed almost immediately.
Rob, I always enjoyed your posts about riding and especially the pictures you shared. I was hoping to see some reports on your new XP cause if they are not going to hold up the milage psycho you are, you would know about it..
I dont ride in Quebec so I hope I am still welcome here.
sledneck36 member # 53 from the other site. I was there from the beginning.
Welcome. You can get your fill of pictures of quebec in the regional forums. I too enjoyed Robs pics until I made enough trips to have basically the same ones!!!
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Hey Gary,
I am glad you got some quick help in RDL. Sorry we could not meet up in Beauce. I did not get your text until we were back in Jackman. We took the bottom half of 545 around Beauce to save some time anyway....
It was great to ride with you Saturday BEFORE your gas incident....
Can you imagine waiting by RT 95 around here with your thumb out waiting for help.. You would still be there 2 days later!!!! Or worse get a ticket for walking the interstate....
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Thanks RWS. I think I figured a work around to get a basic routing using the Quebec map. I used Mapsource to create a route by picking the intersections where I want to go. I think it will alert me as the intersection gets close with the new trail number. The trail numbers show up in the turn list so I am hoping it works......
Thanks again...
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Does anyone have any tracks or waypoints for this area? We'll be leaving New Liskeard for Amos via Rouyn-Noranda this coming Sunday, then heading west to Cochrane on Monday. I've drawn tracks using the ACMAT trail map, but would like something a bit more accurate.
I've tried using the GPS file on the FCMQ site that rws suggested, but I can't seem to convert it w/ the GPS Babel software.
Please upload anything you may have to this thread.
When I get back from our trip next week up there, I'll post my tracks & waypoints.
What GPS are you using?
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Just another thought for when you guy do the run. Gas and food can be tough on a Sunday at the Sawmill between La Dore and Chibougamau. Any other day seems no problem. All in all an awsome run on the loops mentioned. Once you do it, you will be back.
I am sure we will. I will work it in to a 5 day trip for next season. Time and money is running out on this year already!!!!
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This is a boutique site with fantastic info on Quebec and a good group of members that have similar experience. I enjoy posting here. The other site is a shopping mall. Lots of good stuff but a few too many kids strolling the aisles. With that said I still need to go to the mall sometimes to pick a few things up.
Traffic on this site is a little slow BECAUSE there is good riding right now. No need to search for snow like the past few years...
One more thing... I just posted a question here on a trip last night. I got more accurate info on QC than I could ever get on ANY other site. The answers were fast and great. I just hope it stays snowmobile related and does not drift off to a site talking about politics or a GM vs Chevy debate.
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Thanks for all the help guys. I might save this trip for next year since I really want to spend some time in the Valin area this year and I don't want to just jam in the ride to Chib. Sounds like it should be a trip on it's own....
We only have spent 3 days each year in Valin and never get to see the all the things we want anyway.
Chris
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When I get home, I will plot a course for you and let you know.
Thanks, I do have the maps at home too so don't go out of your way.
For some reason I have this desire to go to Chibougamau in hopes to see the northern lights......
Chris
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Well we are not newbies to touring so I am not concerned with the remoteness. Our group gets no less than 14MPG and carry gas too so fuel should not be a problem either....
What kind of mileage is it to do a loop around back to Roberval?
Roberval to Chibougamau 250 miles???
Chibougamau to Sennetere ????
Sennetere to Relais22??
We need to end up back in Shawinigan so we can either do this at the beginning of the week or the end.....
Thanks
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We are heading up to the Valin area in a few weeks and I was wondering if we should take 2 days and ride to Chibougamau and back? Is it worth the haul? What is TQ93 like once it gets past the top of Lac St Jean? Would our time be better spent just exploring more areas around Valin?? We will be in the area for 6 days.
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I only saw it for a second but it looked good going south on 201 Friday......
Good luck guys!!!
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Has anyone ridden tq75 from Armstrong up to Motel Berniers? How about east of beauce? I have a few friends who are riding this weekend and need to make this part of their route.....
They are only riding from Motel Arnold to Berniers so they can detour quite a bit to make the ride nice...
Any thing to watch out for other than the detour in Beauce??
Thanks
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And it said you only have to ADD oil once a year so if you fill it back up mid way that's 2000 miles only adding once. Of course the etec oil will be $100/gallon......
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Chapelle is on a small spur off of TQ93. It's right on the LSJ map. You will find it if you grab a map when passing through.
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Straight from the sign on the wall at jackman customs....
You need a government issues ID IE:Drivers license and proof of citezenship IE: Birth Certificate.
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Hi Switchback nice to see the picture of our home Club House. St. Sabine (Club Mont Bonnet) is where we buy our passes and call our home base, Jane Mercier is great to deal with.
Do you know how the condition is now???
Is it getting colder and is there any new snow??
The Sudbury Sledder
Hey Sudbury Sledder. We just passed through Sabine on Saturday. We are members there too... It was groomed very well all the way to Pamphile. The 30 miles east of Sabine was just perfect. No probelms near Pamphile either. Heading up the 55 to TQ 35 was also very very good. To the south the 545 needed work as well as the 75 near Beauce.
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Thanks for the report and photos of the good and bad.
Just got back from riding Jackman to Relais 540 and back.
Rode Friday and Sat.
Armstrong was great. They has some new new snow to cover the ice.
Took the 545 to Lac Etchimen. LOTS of washouts and a small river going over the trail. All passable but slow.
55 through St Sabine was great as usual..... It was flawless coming back Saturday...
55 up through Pamphile was real nice as fast. A couple of small washouts but nothing major.
TQ35 was fine.
We went 55 to 75 on Saturday. Coming in to Beauce there were a few washouts but again passable.
St Georges was aweful. Lots of washouts and real bumpy. A few real deep ones that we has to get creative to cross....
Once we got south of St Georges 75 was OK.
All told not a bad 425 miles. Just have to be real carefull not to hit one of those holes going fast!!
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RWS,
Since I am not one to follow directions I installed the color one on my GPS V monochrome anyway. It seems to work fine. The trail numbers show up on screen and they ID when I put the cursor on them. This is just what I have been looking for. The TQ trails show up like interstates and the greens show up as secondary roads.
I will let you know if it works on the trail. I used the other version this past weekend and it was great.
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looks great. Any idea how that will look on a non color screen? Think it will translate in to shades of grey?? I currently use a GPS V.
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Thanks, I figured out the Maine one too. You have to send them the old stickers and $5. There is a form online....
Hotel help
in Saguenay-Lac St-Jean
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OK I will look at them. I think I have the link to the website with numbers. We are arriving by sled so the access by truck is not an issue.
Thanks
Chris