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Trip Report - Feb.28 - March 4


JimP
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We stay at a house across from Cabanon. Arrived Sat.night Feb.26. Rode to Koebecs and Glacier on Sun.Feb.27. All trails were perfect. Woke up to snowing on Mon.morning Feb.28. Got on the trail around 9:00 and were first new tracks on about 6" of fluff. 345 to the dam and down 360 to River Mattiwin for lunch and fuel. Still snowing very hard took 355 pipeline up to 73 to Latuque for fuel and stopped at Motel 9 for drinks and to dry out abit. Continued on 73 to 355 on to LacEdouard to spend the 1st night at Pourvoirie Le Goeland. Broke trail for 200 miles and arrived around 6:00 still snowing and over a foot of snow by now. A very nice place to stay with good food. Got on the lake to 355 about 8:30 heading to Roberval. Had lunch at LacBouchette. Continued on to 83 when one of the sleds started a noice in the chaincase(not good).A couple of locals stopped and informed us of a dealership in Chambord so we limped in 18 miles to the dealer. We left the sled there which had to go to Alma to get fixed the next day. Rented a sled and rode across LacSaint-Jean to Chateau Roberval to spend the 2nd night.136 miles for the day. Took a taxi to the ballet(Foxy's).Woke up Wed.morning to a very cold -28C with 40-45m/hr winds blowing across the lake. Got on the trail around 9:00 back across the lake to Chambord and on to Alma to wait for the sled to be fixed. We waited at the ballet(Bar Casino)which was much better than riding in such cold conditions that day. The repairs for the sled was going to be $2,000.00 so the guy ended up trading for a used 2010 model. Spent the 3rd night at Hotel Universal.A short day today 64 miles. Got on the trail at 8:30 and took the 23 down to Relais Mont-Apica for snack and drink and on to L'Etape for fuel and lunch. Continued on 23 to Hotel Rougemont in St.Raymond for 4th night.195 miles for the day. On the trail at 9:00 took the 73 to a couple of local trails to the 318 to Cabane Chez Hill for fuel and lunch. Continued on the 318 back to Cabanon. 185 miles for the day. Rode a total of 900 miles in about 5 days of riding.(a couple of short days). Besides the day it snowed, all trails were 10/10.We only passed maybe 30 sleds all week on the trail. This was the final trip of the season for us with a total of 2200 miles in 3 trips.

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Jim,

Sounds like you had a good trip, asides from your friends chaincase/new sled expense. How was the pipeline? Post some pics when you get a chance.

The pipeline was great! It had about 10" of fresh snow. I was breaking trail and having a ball. It was snowing too hard to take any descent pictures.

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Took the pipeline this past Saturday from Latque to Mattawin & it was terrible. Worst I have ever seen. Looked & rode as if it had not been groomed in past 2 weeks.

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Took the pipeline this past Saturday from Latque to Mattawin & it was terrible. Worst I have ever seen. Looked & rode as if it had not been groomed in past 2 weeks.

Lotsa sled traffic and tons of new snow on sat = rough trail. It was rough from Repos all the way to Mattawin and Auberge mekinack

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