RoadRunner Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 We arrived at forestville last night by vehicle, plenty of snow all along the shore from quebec to forestville, it appears all the groomers have been out, with notes that east of Saint anne to mal baie/clermont is really blessed at the higher elevations by snow. 2-3 feet in the fields and woods in this area. Still adequate cover all along the way, with tq 3 open in all areas that we observed today we rode west on tq 3 towards Portneuf sur mer, grabbed the local trail north up the portnuef river valley and than bush wacked over to the Pelchat valin trail (aka school bus trail) Portnuef river valley Bush wacking over to the pelchat trail was good too We had lunch at auberge 31, very packed with vacation week on the mt Meet up with scorpion bowl and rode with him up towards the north end of the bras louis where we separated and he headed south on bras louis and we headed back to forestville We had a good 285 miles of mixed style riding, all very good conditions here on the north shore RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionbowl Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Thanks for the tour on the logging roads, that was a lot of fun. Before meeting up for lunch, I ran the newly opened C-900 to Sacre Couer. It was freshly groomed 2+ drags wide, perfect. It was a little boney near the 172 till the coronet, but all was open... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smclelan Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Nice pic Gary, is that our snowmobile buddy Bob standing beside your sled? Oh thats right....he isn't allowed out any more! Looks like great conditions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysnow Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Great info guys. Thanks can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quebecmountainrider Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Nice pics guys...North of baie comeaux, about 2 hours is some wicked mountains..They are like out west,very open and a little bigger than the ones in gaspesie..But there is no where to stay..You have to stay in really shit conditions..More like a logging slash tent town..If it wasnt so empty there thats where I would have a place..But your gas and everything else has to be brought in..Too much trouble....JACK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Our trip today took us up the local forestville trail 30 miles of perfectly groomed trail up the canyon valley, if you ever have a chance when riding trail 3 , stop and take the loop up into the canyons north of forestville they are awesome, you can do a 60 mile loop up through this valley and enjoy awesome views. These pics are in the canyon valleys north of forestville After the groom trail stops the canyon road continues north and so we continued up that and headed again for the Pipmaucan reservoir area, the similiar area to where we were two weeks ago other than we were headed for the big pennisula that you see when you look at the reservoir. We headed up into here and found awesome roads to run We had noticed on google earth what appeared to be a landing strip up near the reservoir so we checked that out, nice strip here Than it was time for lunch, nice spot here a small lake near the larger lake called Lake Gouin, not to be confused with the reseroir Gouin further west of this area the jet boils work great for out gourmet chicken and "wild" rice soup and tea. The outdoor kitchen was a great addition to the lunch time event!! After lunch we explored a little more, refueled and back tracked back down, on the way we detoured and found the base structure near the Labieville road, we were puzzled as to what the would have been in its day Another great day out of forestville. Quebecmtnrider, is the location you are talking about near the truck stop Gabriel on the road to labrador? I have heard that area is interesting, we stopped there in our vehicle last March on our way to Lab for the cains quest race RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Very interesting riding RR, Forestville, Labreville, Pipmuacan, canyons, on trailing, off trailing. Sharing your adventure with all of us, just amazing guys. Keep it up and enjoy. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Very interesting riding RR, Forestville, Labreville, Pipmuacan, canyons, on trailing, off trailing. Sharing your adventure with all of us, just amazing guys. Keep it up and enjoy. JG Trailblazer, we love doing this kind of riding early in the season before the snow cover spreads over all areas, We are headed back to Maine on sunday, probably won't be back up on the north shore for while now as we have now received good snow cover back there. Will be doing similiar kinds of riding down there now and on the south shore. But the beauty and size of this area always makes a big impression on us. We will be back. Good people, good food, and great outdoors, it doesn't get better. RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markusvt Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Nice reporting guys, looks like a great trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gade_guy Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 "Quebecmtnrider, is the location you are talking about near the truck stop Gabriel on the road to labrador? I have heard that area is interesting, we stopped there in our vehicle last March on our way to Lab for the cains quest race" hThink je's talking about Groulx mountain and Groulx canyon area backcountry route from Baie Comeau to Fire Lake on way to Fermont & Lab City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Today was an absolutely gorgeous day, the best day we have had this week as far as being a blue sky day. We started off doing the forestville loop trail nice wooded ride here and a must do when you are traveling through forestville Nice Water fall on this loop And some taste of the valleys in the canyon Than the further north you go off the loop on the canyon roads you get spectacular views These canyon views are awesome Than we climbed elevations a got into some beautiful high elevation riding, we were near 2000 feet here Than we found these met towers that can only mean that there are wind turbines in the future for these elevations. We were at 2348 feet at this met tower Than we wandered over to Lake Portneuf for another lunch at Pourvoirie Quebec Nature lodge, nobody there but the porch worked well. Today it was beef jerky, italian wedding soup and the tea, (note: we save the crown royal for when we get back!) These lakes were north of Lake Portneuf, just great views today for sure Nice reporting guys, looks like a great trip! Markusvt , sounds like you have been having some good riding on the west side, enjoy. We are headed home in the am, a super trip! RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 "Quebecmtnrider, is the location you are talking about near the truck stop Gabriel on the road to labrador? I have heard that area is interesting, we stopped there in our vehicle last March on our way to Lab for the cains quest race" hThink je's talking about Groulx mountain and Groulx canyon area backcountry route from Baie Comeau to Fire Lake on way to Fermont & Lab City It is the groulx mtns that I have heard about, never ridden there though, Just another thing to add to the list of snowmobile things todo!! I think quebecmtnrider would like the high elevation riding north west of forestville too. Looks like this area was burned over several years ago, regrowth has started but a lot a barren ground currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionbowl Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Wow, great trip for you guys, that's some incredible stuff. I followed the groomer and he took me west again. Excellent trails, but very little sun... Have a safe trip home, I will check the trails south of the st Lawrence starting tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Scorp, keep us posted on those conditions as we will be headed that way in a few weeks great trails RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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