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  1. March ’17 until last Wednesday Dream and plan for next trip to great trails in Quebec Wednesday 1/17 Trailering snow covered roads from Maryland to Hotel Lac Carling (a site sponsor I might add). Dinner, drinks, politics. After dinner I was advised trails closed. PLENTY of snow here but damage from last Friday's rain. At least truck is secure, we think. Thursday Planned ride to Village Windigo. Woke 4a. Study reports, closed in spots, passable in others. Lac McDonald closed, Linear Park closed, 319 N closed at 63. Everything else open. Re-route planning, contingency ideas. Gas at Motel du Chasseur. Windigo calls and says trails closed in their area - we’ll see. Bad hole soon after turn left on gold local to get to Chasseur. Snowy. Occasional rocks and icy corners. Passable but not what you come to Quebec for. Plan is to take new route to Mt. Laurier via Duhamel and local up Lac des Iles and wing it if can’t get through. Campfire if needed. Windigo calls again - trails closed please bring your money but not your sleds. Lunch at Madorick - good food, prompt service. Owner tells me not to try Windigo - too many klicks. 1st timer with us, an experienced snowmobiler on first saddlebag trip, is toast already. OK I give up. Where to? A little mind eraser magic and iMotoneige points to Auberge Chez Ignace - Lac Nominingue. Owner is a renowned wine maker transplanted from France. Uncork some rouge, served with Cheetos, WTF (I think the husband rushed out to buy provisions after I called). Math homework with the kids and cat. Weird but super accommodating. Nice rooms, hot tub. Right on the Linear park (they advised me it was OK even though RED on iMototneige). Dinner amazing, breakfast perfect, sleds secure in covered enclosure. We’ll be back when there is actually snow between points A and B to stay with new friends. Friday 7a breakfast A little drone work Live stream departure by new ami Tony. 63 to gas in Riviere Rouge. 319 N barred on linear park. Bridge to take 63 over Red River is bare with no sleds signs. No choice. Back on trail. Good size hole on 63 east prior to 322. Passable where shallow. Head north on 322. Powerline trails very rocky almost no snow. FML, Shoulda move launch point north or elsewhere but 1 buddy really wants to go to 100 Lacs. In the woods the trail is often good - full on winter, in the open spots bad to terrible, borderline irresponsible. And bad timing for the open house weekend. About 1/2 way up the trail is shaping up and not bad, still a few rocks and some icy areas. After the 322-319 intersection 319 N turns into a single track goat path for several miles, I did not measure. Whoops are bad for 2-3 miles but then it opens up and is Ok. All passable clearly but partly seemingly not opened yet this year. By the time we reach the Le Reufge at the 53 intersection its actually quite good. Actually winter. And Snowing. Mekoos for gas and lunch. We are a little early (rare for us) and no other sleds that aren’t staff or rentals waiting to be abused. Good lunch, some connectivity and off we head to 100 Lacs. Mekoos to 100 Lacs 8/10 except at the very end on the new section was a bit icy. We arrived before 4p. - Too much drinking time allowed for this group. I was not aware of the advertising brouhaha at this point but Paul was away promoting the business anyway. Good candidate for site sponsor really. There is a new lady there Maria, who speaks perfect English among other languages and was very hospitable along with all the staff at 100 Lacs. 100 Lacs to us is a super cool QC experience. I did not meet a single QR member here despite the usual pre and post dinner camaraderie under the moose. We stayed in Chalet Gerry with the mice or some other woodland creatures. In the am the morning they used a leaf blower to clear the few inches of fresh snow covering the sleds. Saturday Slow breakfast. Gas (no good explanation for not gassing on arrival) 53-319-322-63-323-43- local to Saint Jovite. My sled hates me, or at least it thinks I hate it. Great riding up most of the way to Mekoos. Fresh snow had fallen the entire time but my optimism was not rewarded. This was a stupid choice with a non-refundable comfortable 3 bedroom condo and a taxi ride to Tremblant for an over-priced meal. Don’t ride this area until at least a foot of snow falls and the clubs can shape it up. I know it was open doors but snowmobile trails need snow to be “open”. Sunday 7a breakfast No sleds to fix parked warm in then bunker below the condos. Rocks, snow, rocks, snow. Plenty of snow and decent conditions still in Pine Hill area. Thankful that the worst of the Tremblant area was behind us. Roll back to Lac Carling. In the truck by 11:15a but not before a little drone work on Lac des Seize Iles. 2 different trailer tire blowouts on the way home. No sled mechanical issues, no blown corner excursions, new carbides all around probably - I had new ones in the trailer already that I left off. 1200 miles now on my Winder. IMotoneige worked very well for navigating having a better interface than any Garmin.
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