markusvt Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Day 1: Left St Zenon, 214 miles later, ended up at Rebaska, Lot's of snow, trails very hard. No slider or overheat issues, enough loose on top for this. Snow in L'Annonciation and up to Mekoo's is the most I have seen, and the trails are very, very good. La Macaza a bit rough, looks like they just got the groomer through after the big December dumping, then the melt down. They are calling for 30cm of snow all through this area through Sunday. Very cold, 1200's got 16-17mpg today. Tomorrow, up to Barrage Gouin, Edited January 19, 2013 by markusvt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towing Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Thanks for the report !!! even with this recent thaw, this season give fantastics trail conditions and we are still just in mid january... Enjoy your trip and keep the report coming Alain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markusvt Posted January 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) Day 2: 210 miles today. Woke up to 5 inches of new snow. Awesome breakfast with fresh watermelon! Left Rebaska, off to Fer A Cheval for lunch. 13 was SMOOTH. Awesome 98 miles. Food was awesome, trails were ridiculousness Headed off to Parent with another 45 miles on. Trails were awesome with the new 2-6 inches of snow on them. Gassed them up, and went 65 more miles and rolled into Barrage Gouin for the night. The 83 was awesome, and all of the side trails were awesome too. Met some guys up from Barre Vermont and Colchester Vermont. Very little traffic up here, and Ton's of snow! Tomorrow back to La Glacier. Edited January 14, 2014 by markusvt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper2 Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Day 2: 210 miles today. Woke up to 5 inches of new snow. Awesome breakfast with fresh watermellon! Left Rebaska, off to Fer A Cheval for lunch. 13 was SMOOTH. Awesome 98 miles. Food was awesome, trails were ridiculousness Traffic very light. Headed off to Parent with another 45 miles on. Trails were awesome with the new 2-6 inches of snow on them. Gassed them uo, and went 65 more miles and rolled into Barrage Gouin for the night. The 83 was awesome, and all of the side trails were awesome too. Met some guys up from Barre Vermont and Colchester Vermont. Tomorrow back to La Glacier. Thanks for the report Markus heading up to Mont Laurier tomorrow leaving monday to head north for the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markusvt Posted January 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Day 3: Great breakfast at Barrage Gouin, (love that place). Headed back down the west side trail, (it is faster and wider). We were pushing 12 inches of new snow, WOW! It already looked like the warm-up never hit this area. We went by Casey, looked pretty dead, no signs, no tracks. Got into Kanawata with 98 miles on and filled them up. 12.5MPG, pushing snow costs a bit. They said Repo had no fuel, so they suggested taking the road to Repo to conserve gas. Got in with 35 miles on the tank, ate lunch and headed down 33. The first 93 miles had not been groomed all year!. Choppy but not horrendous. It appeared open and was well signed. Maybe 5 miles in the middle was on plowed logging roads, but with the fresh snow it was fine. You could get gas at La Taureau. It was groomed after that and we kept on trucking the 20 more miles into St Michael and filled them up. The 13 miles to Cabanon was a bit bumpy, but not bad really. The groomer had just left south, so we got a few miles of nice stuff, then onto La Glacier. 238 miles on the day. Nice 650 mile loop for anyone looking for an easy 3 day loop with nice placed to stay. Edited January 27, 2013 by markusvt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccaffrey Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Thanks for the info,will have to think about that trip sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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