RoadRunner Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 As we had discussed early in the week while on the trail in the link rimouski to amqui, two of us had a 4 1/2 day tour this week that allowed us to experience a variety of conditions which we kind of expected to find. Here is a more detailed report of what the conditions were like and I have not put them in the regional format as they cover 3 different regions We left Houlton Me saturday forenoon and rode to the border crossing at St Leonard NB, continued onto Cambellton NB and had a friendly lift over the bridge to Pointe la croix that night for a nice 210 mile ride Sunday AM departed the Pointe and headed for Albertville with good riding conditions on both the lower section of 5 and especially Groomers section of 5 into Albertville Pic of Lower section of trail 5 between the pointe and the cable bridge After a Coffee and asking about Groomer, we headed west on 587 to La Redemption and than picked up 579 over to St Gabriel de Rimouski. These trails were excellent on 587 and good on 579. All kinds on snow on this elevated section of trail Pics on 587 Pic on 5 near near st marcellin We picked up trail 5 next and headed west to riv du loop As typical and snow was less abundant on the fields around west rimouski, but from st eugene to riv du loop we found snow cover to be more than usual, with the section of power line west of st eugene having plenty of snow cover and conditions around riv du loop generous for this time of year. We ended the day with 240 miles on and generally good to excellent conditions Monday we left riv du loop and had been told by apexgt of NS that trail 5 near east of Hiboux had not been broken open so we headed east on 5 to St Bruno with great trail conditions, picked up 557 down to 35 and headed west on 35. Note, A bridge on the rail bed is closed so a detour half way down 553 takes you around the unsafe bridge. This is well marked but was not freshly groomed. We continued on 35 to tourville for lunch and than headed north on 55 to 5 again, we took 5 towards montmagny and encountered many limbs bent over in the trail and the closer we got to montmagny the trails had only been panned a storm before and were not marked or technically open in sections. These conditons were preseason and ok with us but probably not acceptable for some riders with a few wide brooks open ect. and marginal snow cover. Once we left montmagny we meet the groomer for the next club and he was doing a great job with the trails, we had groomed riding on low snow conditions from here to the jct of 545 St Gervais, we continued down 545 on groomed but marginal snow covered fields until we ran into a river crossing at St Clair that was open, we were able to use the vehicle bridge in the town to get acrossed the river and continued on our way to the jct of 35 that we picked up and headed west to St Marie where we stayed for the night and a ride of 250 miles Tuesday we took 35 east all the way and encountered freshly groomed trails on 90 % of this trail all the way to sully, the end of the line with NB. We had 2-5" of new snow on top of the groomed trails in places and plenty of snow to ride on. One note is that at Pohenagamook, the lake was still wide open so you need to take the bypass trail that pics of a piece of 544 to take you around the north side of the lake. Once we hit NB the 41 had not been visited this year. Club asno had not done anything on this trail so we picked our way down thru to claire and back into Maine for a night at long lake for a 270 mile ride and home today for a nice 1100 mile early season ride 544 trail north of pohenagamook NB 41 needed some creative work to get thru Over all 90 % good to great riding RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeusand Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 As we had discussed early in the week while on the trail in the link rimouski to amqui, two of us had a 4 1/2 day tour this week that allowed us to experience a variety of conditions which we kind of expected to find.Here is a more detailed report of what the conditions were like and I have not put them in the regional format as they cover 3 different regions We left Houlton Me saturday forenoon and rode to the border crossing at St Leonard NB, continued onto Cambellton NB and had a friendly lift over the bridge to Pointe la croix that night for a nice 210 mile ride Sunday AM departed the Pointe and headed for Albertville with good riding conditions on both the lower section of 5 and especially Groomers section of 5 into Albertville Pic of Lower section of trail 5 between the pointe and the cable bridge After a Coffee and asking about Groomer, we headed west on 587 to La Redemption and than picked up 579 over to St Gabriel de Rimouski. These trails were excellent on 587 and good on 579. All kinds on snow on this elevated section of trail Pics on 587 Pic on 5 near near st marcellin We picked up trail 5 next and headed west to riv du loop As typical and snow was less abundant on the fields around west rimouski, but from st eugene to riv du loop we found snow cover to be more than usual, with the section of power line west of st eugene having plenty of snow cover and conditions around riv du loop generous for this time of year. We ended the day with 240 miles on and generally good to excellent conditions Monday we left riv du loop and had been told by apexgt of NS that trail 5 near east of Hiboux had not been broken open so we headed east on 5 to St Bruno with great trail conditions, picked up 557 down to 35 and headed west on 35. Note, A bridge on the rail bed is closed so a detour half way down 553 takes you around the unsafe bridge. This is well marked but was not freshly groomed. We continued on 35 to tourville for lunch and than headed north on 55 to 5 again, we took 5 towards montmagny and encountered many limbs bent over in the trail and the closer we got to montmagny the trails had only been panned a storm before and were not marked or technically open in sections. These conditons were preseason and ok with us but probably not acceptable for some riders with a few wide brooks open ect. and marginal snow cover. Once we left montmagny we meet the groomer for the next club and he was doing a great job with the trails, we had groomed riding on low snow conditions from here to the jct of 545 St Gervais, we continued down 545 on groomed but marginal snow covered fields until we ran into a river crossing at St Clair that was open, we were able to use the vehicle bridge in the town to get acrossed the river and continued on our way to the jct of 35 that we picked up and headed west to St Marie where we stayed for the night and a ride of 250 miles Tuesday we took 35 east all the way and encountered freshly groomed trails on 90 % of this trail all the way to sully, the end of the line with NB. We had 2-5" of new snow on top of the groomed trails in places and plenty of snow to ride on. One note is that at Pohenagamook, the lake was still wide open so you need to take the bypass trail that pics of a piece of 544 to take you around the north side of the lake. Once we hit NB the 41 had not been visited this year. Club asno had not done anything on this trail so we picked our way down thru to claire and back into Maine for a night at long lake for a 270 mile ride and home today for a nice 1100 mile early season ride 544 trail north of pohenagamook NB 41 needed some creative work to get thru Over all 90 % good to great riding RR AWESOME TRIP! Planning a trip in a couple of week's from montmagny thru New Brunswick and Groomer's area and back, Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldsmoke1 Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 LOOKS GREATTTTTT thanks for updating us howard right after this storm there getting im going do you know of a place i could leave my truck for a week or so if i come up rt 201 and x the border at jackman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 Coldsmoke, if you want to leave at Jackman, you usually can leave your vehicle in the big lot by Danas sled rental accrossed from Northland hotel in town or go 2-3 miles above town and leave it at the border riders club house., good big lot there. Also the Armstrong club house just over the border has a fenced in parking lot, 10miles past the border crossing RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldsmoke1 Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 ok thanks make no cents to drive all the way to the county if the ridding is good right from j town thanks buddy i o you a beer :drinks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomer Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 just found that pic on the french forum . guy said ,rimouski ,mont joli ,st marcellin and mount lebel area has been groomed yesterday . pic looks like the same area of roadrunner 's 4 th pic????? -21 c and sunny here this morning should warm up for the week end. groomer !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smclelan Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Nice report RoadRunner. We must have just missed you. We unloaded at Pointe a la Croix at 8am Sunday morning. We did a little run through the Gaspe, and put on a little over 800 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
182ray Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 (edited) Talk to Scott @ Spruce Meadow Cabins just beyond Jackman on 201 LOOKS GREATTTTTT thanks for updating us howard right after this storm there getting im going do you know of a place i could leave my truck for a week or so if i come up rt 201 and x the border at jackman Edited January 1, 2010 by 182ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted January 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Nice report RoadRunner. We must have just missed you. We unloaded at Pointe a la Croix at 8am Sunday morning. We did a little run through the Gaspe, and put on a little over 800 miles. SMclelan, We missed you by about an hour , we had gotten up early and had left the point just before 7 that morning. Glad to hear you had a good ride eastward. Best regards RR just found that pic on the french forum . guy said ,rimouski ,mont joli ,st marcellin and mount lebel area has been groomed yesterday . pic looks like the same area of roadrunner 's 4 th pic????? -21 c and sunny here this morning should warm up for the week end. groomer !!! Groomer, that pic does look like the same section of trail! RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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