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Day 2, 

    Left Amqui this morning, blue skies and cool. 5 trail to the cable bridge groomed yesterday, of course to perfection, thanx groomer. I think I spotted the offending woodpile, I kept an eye on it.

     After the cable bridge was groomed overnight. We laid the first tracks. Took the cutoff to miss X point, saw the first sleds for the day, the first of many.

   Back down on the 5 about 1/2 way to new rich we met many oncoming.

   Quick bite at the carlton relay and on to Bonaventure for the night.

    All trails very good today, plenty of snow.  I would guess 80% trails we were on today were groomed yesterday or last night......regardless of what the FCMQ map shows

 

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bonsoir !!!

it was the second one....few hundred feet before crossing the road for the windmill...

great day  for riding ...i see your deer pic...right at the bottom of the hill  at the gas station this morning when i left...i had 4 deer right in front of me....surprised me  so much ...forgot to take pics !!!

 

jean-guy

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Day 3,   Bono to Gaspe.  Woke up to fresh dusting of snow overnight. Rode out of town by the Bonaventure airport. The runway groomer was working. The 5 was groomed overnight. Heading est, we were making the first tracks except for the deer. We saw a few this morning but tracks were everywhere. 

    Beautiful day to ride, blue skys, very little wind, most trails freshly groomed. Quite a bit of traffic around chandler. We stopped at relay there for a bite and then into town for gas, there was a line.

   The bottom of the 597 and the bailey bridge cutoff were groomed overnight, sweet. There was a trailside conference on the 597 and gaspe intersection. 

   Haven't seen any sleds in town tonight as we went out for dinner.

     Jeff and Sandy 

 

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Day 4, to Mont-Louis,

     Another ideal day to ride. Blue skys and very little wind. I think tonight will be different, its about 3:30 now and clouding up with some wind forcast for tonight. Got to Grande-Vallee early, got gas and a nice early lunch at hotel GV. The place then filled with a lot of sledders. A lot of them looked like 2up dayriders. It was a short day but between Gaspe and Matane is about 500k, which is way too much for us in 1 day so we have to split it somewhere. It has been several years since we ran the 5 between Gaspe and the 597. It seemed faster and more open than I remember it. There were a lot of windmills, so I'm guessing they are utilizing some of their new roads? Most all trails were in good shape today with not a lot of traffic.

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Day 5 to Matane,

    GT, sorry we missed you, I think you got an earlier start than us. Laying in bed last night listening to the wind howl didn't make me all that anxious for an early start. I saw a few sets of eastbound tracks that started at MSP. I assumed one of them was yours, maybe next time. Enjoy your ride.

   .Trails were all pretty good to st ann except  for a couple spots GT mentioned that were icy or thin up high in a logged area. The wind didn't seem to hurt that area.  After st ann some of the trails got a little bumpy in spots, mainly as you would expect in narrower sections like where the trail would share half road half trail. They also must of had some more blowing snow because they had drift bumps.

      Still a very nice day. The relay that we like for lunch just west of St Ann, we knew was closed on monday so we went into St Ann to subway.

     Catching the morning ferry and will post on Cote Nord site tomorrow.

       Jeff and Sandy 

 

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5 hours ago, Maximusthunder said:

Awesome pics!  So excited for Thursday, when I will be taking my own pics around the loop:yahoo:

It will be interesting to follow your progress.

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