markusvt Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Looks like a great time! I love Gouin and Lac Fallion! For the Vector, an hour before you have to go, throw a hairdryer under the hood with a blanket over the whole hood area, heats it up good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper2 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Day 4 Wed. Royun-Noranda to Lac Faillon Left Royun Noranda around 9am today needed a little hot water on the Vector fuel pump to bring her to life. 3 apex started right up. Cold Cold Cold Trails out of town fresh groom. Hooked onto the 83 west and cruised toward Val d'Or. Stopped in Cadilac for a little gas and some warmth. Trails Superb absolutely great. Continued to Val d'Or on great trail by-passed the city and headed for Louvincourt. Took the gas and a late lunch to warm up and headed out for Lac Faillon. Took the 386 south then east to 83 and on to Lac Faillon. All trails great conditions and excellent snow. Super cold. Group of 6 came in to Lac Faillon around 7pm no reservations, guess what? No rooms. On they went west. Would not want to be them tonight. Wicked cold to be out night riding for sure. So far so good headed east on 83 to Gouin for Thursday night. Stay tuned. Sounds like you are having a great trip iceman and cold too just like we had 2 weeks ago. How was the trail south of Louvicourt that heads east to the 83? They seem to call it 386 this year. The beginning for us was groomed but bumpy almost like running over a swamp that was froze on top. Then just after the sign for Machi Manitou we got on a plowed road then onto single track? After about a mile of single track we picked up the groomed trail again, weird for sure. Anyway good trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thanks for your reports Iceman, Gouin's a nice place happy trails. How many miles you got on that Yammy now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman Posted February 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Day 5 Lac Faillon to Barrage Gouin Very Cold this Morning -34 yeah not great. Alot of sleds had no go go today this morning. The cold did not discriminate was every brand represented. Needless to say we got them going and headed out on 83 east on a freshly groomed trail toward Balbazard. Absolutely awesome to Balbazard. Continued on and came to the spot with the bad 30 Miles. Little did we know(we know now) about 5 miles past Balbazard the 83 takes a left so we did. However if going east you can continue on the straight trail and there are no trees trying to take your head off. This should be marked as detour and its not. Note anyone headed west on 83 from Clova its 24 miles to where 83 goes to the right toward the trees of doom, stay straight to detour around the bad section. Anyway I have certainly seen worse but no fun for sure. All great after to clova and stopped for gas and lunch. Left Clova continued toward Parent. Some Icy corners for sure near Parent but real good trail. Gassed in Parent continued on awesome conditions all the way to the west trail to Barrage Gouin. Trail to Barrage was great little hard but flat and nice. Great stay as always up there great people and good stop. If you have not been there give it a try. Go there. All in all good stuff. 239 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman Posted February 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Day 6 Barrage Gouin to Shawinigan Sleds started right up today was much warmer only -20. Time to make the run for home. Was dreading it a bit anticipating seeing alot of sleds out there. Took the east trail from the Barrage Gouin back to 83. Arrived on the 83 and saw the first 6 of many others out there. Rolled east to the trail to Casey and down to Kanawata. Stopped for Gas at Kanawata. All trails Mint very nice. Left Kanawata and out the driveway to the express trail to Repos. Enough snow to take the express but just barely. Got to Repos at 11:15 am looked like they were giving stuff away. Crazy how many sleds were there. It was a Zoo. I could not get away from there fast enough. Topped off and headed on down the 345 to 360 passed another 30 sleds headed up at least. Reached the 360 and was glad to be headed away from Cabanon and all the traffic coming from there. 360 was simply great and no problems all the way to Mattawin. Stopped for gas and late lunch had a discussion and decided we would try the River to Grand Mere. Headed out of the resto and caught a group of Tourists on Rentals. Watching that is enough to make you wonder how they survive a day out there let alone a week. Scary stuff not just riding the middle but all on the left side. Totally crazy. Anyway trail was great right to river. Got on at Mekinac and was just enough snow to make it no problem all the way down. Arrived in Grand Mere and found the trails in awesome shape really great all the way to the house. Looking real good. Great Day and great trails. Alot of traffic for sure. Not sure but around 250 miles i think today. (i don't keep track) the guys usually tell me. I know overall for 6 days and 2 with late starts we got 1581 miles for 6 days riding. Happy Trails Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Nice trip Iceman, thanks for posting conditions and milage between lodging, very good info. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysnow Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Good Stuff Iceman ...... Thanks for the Report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman Posted February 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Viper 386 was great all fixed up saw nothing like you were saying. All good to 83 on 386. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florida Snowman Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Welcome home Don! Great reporting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towing Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Thank you for your daily report Iceman, great info with many details Look like you had a great trip!! Alain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markusvt Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Nice trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLAYHARD Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 J'aime Abitibi! Lots of great trails. Lots of snow. Lots of grooming. Lots of cool people. Gotta get back and run all of those greens & oranges around Amos, La Sarre & Matagami. Here's the general gist of this run... http://www.viaexplora.com/snowmobile/index.html?unit=km&lat=47.264725&lng=-75.877844&zoom=7&force=1&ewaypoints=4653749,-7275352,1818,-273732,155061,-227966,13794,-124480,7369,231425,3457,259930,-185409,138736,3969,-1236&cst=1.0,1.01,1.05&csts=&cstr=&spd=50000,50000,50000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman Posted February 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Our Picture from Ontario. just wish we had more time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 1 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Love it iceman I want to be in that picture. Interesting all Yamaha's, we must talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Rider Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Nice photo. The wife and I have been waiting to see it. Great trip guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Our Picture from Ontario. just wish we had more time. Nice pic boys, this should be on a shop wall somewhere. I see there is a little monkey business going on, Crazysnow must've had his hands on this one too eh! LOL Looks a little shopped but nice job. Linda will love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florida Snowman Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 What a reputation you're developing CrazySnow!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysnow Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 It wasn't me !!!!! I swear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Rider Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Day 5 Lac Faillon to Barrage Gouin Very Cold this Morning -34 yeah not great. Alot of sleds had no go go today this morning. The cold did not discriminate was every brand represented. Needless to say we got them going and headed out on 83 east on a freshly groomed trail toward Balbazard. Absolutely awesome to Balbazard. Continued on and came to the spot with the bad 30 Miles. Little did we know(we know now) about 5 miles past Balbazard the 83 takes a left so we did. However if going east you can continue on the straight trail and there are no trees trying to take your head off. This should be marked as detour and its not. Note anyone headed west on 83 from Clova its 24 miles to where 83 goes to the right toward the trees of doom, stay straight to detour around the bad section. Anyway I have certainly seen worse but no fun for sure. All great after to clova and stopped for gas and lunch. Left Clova continued toward Parent. Some Icy corners for sure near Parent but real good trail. Gassed in Parent continued on awesome conditions all the way to the west trail to Barrage Gouin. Trail to Barrage was great little hard but flat and nice. Great stay as always up there great people and good stop. If you have not been there give it a try. Go there. All in all good stuff. 239 miles. 83 east I went to the left following sighns. I saw a couple go straight. Edited February 13, 2013 by GT Rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman Posted February 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 We know now that Straight was the better choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLAYHARD Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 GT, what mapping program is that?! Is the "road"/go-around marked as 83?! We shouldn't squawk over "only" 30 crap miles out of 6 days, but DANG!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionbowl Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 TQ83 has taken a few different routes around there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Rider Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 It is the trackmaps gps trail map. The junk trail looks like a detour but it was marked 83. Funny thing I missed the left but my copilot saw the 83 sign so we back tracked into the horror. :rofl: Its all good we had a great trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Rider Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 TQ83 has taken a few different routes around there... I did that north one in 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasledgirl Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Our Picture from Ontario. just wish we had more time. OH MY GOODNESS!! I LOVE IT LOL Who did this? And how were you guys in my town without me? lol What do I have to do to be on that ride...get a Yamaha? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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