towing Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 It was my first ride of the season yesderday (Sunday). It was very cloudy for pictures but it will give you an idea of what it looks like. We first start from the Glacière... As expected, it was season beginning conditions. The snow base is not big and not very hard yet. The ground ans rocks are not far and mix with the snow on some places. I had installed a set of used carbides so I was not worried about the "klink-Klang" sounds under the skis :thumbsup: We fisrt head up to the Cabanon on #345 trail. It had pretty much traffic on saturday and the little snow base is not enought strong to groom each day so we deal with a moderate moguls trail... A good opportunity to test the suspention of my new sled. it was a little ruff at start but we get some pretty good streches after... It is a good thing that we had no river to cross in the St-Zenon area because it just begin to freeze up.. Few setup on the suspention and we open the throttle a little more... We still need to be very carefull because ther are some "pot hole" and rocks but it is soooooo good to ride again this season... We stopped to lunch at Cabanon... After talking with others sledders, we decided to go to the Taureau Dam. The first 5 miles was a little sandy on some places... But after the trail came back in a Mastigouche park road and became really nice with some near perfect condition streches... And continue in dam direction.... To be continued... Alain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towing Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 So we headed in the dam direction It become a little more ruff on the last 4 miles before the dam And the dam... It had alot of from the lake and the rocks are uncovered on the dam border so we stayed on the top... We talked a litttle bit and headed back on the same trail in Cabanon direction... We just talked on how we need some more snow to imrpove conditions that it begin to snow... More and more... Just south from the Mastigouche park gate, we took the #318 trail that crossed the park. we immediately see that there were very low traffic and we ride around 10 miles of near just grommed trail... We decided to come back in Cabanon direction because we are alone and not really 100% sure to have enought gaz or deal with unexpected.. so we took back the #345 in Cabanon direction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towing Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) The sandy part is all whitened with this new snow... And put some gaz at Cabanon and headed back to Glaciere It was snowing pretty much... It become to be pretty dark but with this new snow it is really beautifull And we came back at the starting point whit a good 110 miles on the meter In conclusion, it is not perfects conditions. Yes there are some rocks and the base is still thin. In riding carefully we had a great ride. There was around 2 more inches of new snow on the car when we leaved St-Zenon and it was still snowing. I hope we will get more this week... I go back there next week-end... Bye Alain Edited December 15, 2009 by towing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smclelan Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 WOW!! Thanks Alain what a great report! The pictures are very nice going along with it to help show real conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 NICE!!!! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks for taking the time to whet our appetite, Alain. We appreciate it! timbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper2 Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Great report Alain, once once again you never fail to come through. I gotta get one of you guys to tell me how to get pics on my posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasemonkey Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 I am so damn jealous right now! Great job on the report, hope this is the beginning of the rest of the winter and not just a tease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towing Posted December 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Thank you guys Alain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
too slow Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Great job on the trail report and pics. Although i haven't ridden there in many years that area brings back a lot of fun memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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