How to Prepare for Snowmobiling

[smclelan]

How to prepare yourself for Snowmobiling

1. Go to your local snowmobile repair shop, smile and give the first

guy you see $200. This will get you used to spending money there on a regular basis.

2. Fill a 50-gallon barrel with sand. Lower it into a hole. Now lift it

out. If you can, add water to the sand and try it again. Do this 5 times per day. This will get your back in shape for those deep snow stucks.

3. Tie a rope to a heavy-duty spring. Pull the rope repeatedly with

each arm until the pain in your shoulders meets somewhere in middle

your back. This will get you in shape for starting your buds sled, which he conveniently forgot was out of gas and didn’t tell you. It’s best to do this exercise while someone is spraying starting fluid into your nose and eyes also.

4. Drink four ounces of cod liver oil mixed with a strong laxative.

Dress with long underwear, wool pants, snowmobile bibs, insulated boots and heavy coat. Walk far into the woods without any paper products and wait for a personal emergency. This get you prepare for the Beer sh&%s that come out of nowhere, and at the wrong time.

5. Place your hands in a bucket of ice water for 20 minutes. Put the

carburetor from your lawn mower in the bottom of your deep freeze.

Now climb in the deep freeze, shut the lid and overhaul it while holding a pen light in your mouth. This gets you prepared to work on your sled in the freezing cold and black of night. Advanced riders do this with a leatherman tool.

7. Dress up in your new $350 snowmobile bibs. Pour 2 stroke oil down the right leg, gasoline down the other and Peppermint Schnapps and Beer all over the front. Fill your boots with ice cubes and ask your wife or girlfriend to dance. This will prepare her for the stops at the local bar after a ride.

8. Put on a Balaclava and a full-face helmet. Attempt to drink hot chocolate through the opening. Advanced riders attempt this while riding a lawn tractor over in the nearest farmers’ field.

9. Find a place where you can pay $3.50 a gallon for regular gas; $19.99 per quart of oil; $16 for a hamburger and frozen French fries; $3 for a coke and $60 to sleep in a cold cabin on a bed with springs sticking through the mattress. Stay for two nights, minimum. This will prepare you on the high cost of your future winter trips.

10. Practice explaining to your banker why you need another loan for a $40,000 truck to pull the four $10,000 toys, in your $9,000 trailer that you still owe $40,000 on.

Now, you are 50% ready, and somewhat conditioned to head for the trails and ride your sled.

[Saguenay Bill]

Good job, Steven. Ain't it the truth. And we call this FUN.

[GTSE800]

Who ever wrote this, must have ha a bad time last season? lol the funny part about it, most of it's true, funny stuff.

[mustang00]

[Phil 1]

Great Smc...very funny...

[nowa]

Totally true but we wouldnt have it any other way!!!

[snowworks]

You left out the part about doing all these things with your eyes closed, to prepare for snowdust and whiteouts!

[Doo time]

That preparatory lecture is exactly 1/2 of what I love about this site. The great stories, and jokes, coupled with the amazing pictures make this the first thing I do when I get home from work. On a real bad day I go back to the post that contains all the pics of Qc, and suddenly I feel much better.

The only thing I would add to the prep, is: go stand in front of the mirror and take a look at yourself smiling from ear to ear. This prepares the muscles in your face that you will be using while cruising the greatest trails in the world. :D