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3 minutes ago, Evil said:

It’s all good. It’s not for everybody. Went over it yesterday somebody added some boards in place of the missing rail ties so it’s a bit better. It has the most snow on the bridge that I’ce ever seen!   I would have taken pics but it was a little chilly. 

 

 

 

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It’s not Thursday but......it’s a throwback to last year. 

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3 hours ago, Evil said:

It’s all good. It’s not for everybody. Went over it yesterday somebody added some boards in place of the missing rail ties so it’s a bit better. It has the most snow on the bridge that I’ce ever seen!   I would have taken pics but it was a little chilly. 

We were discussing putting a guard rail and deck on it. Not officially as it is condemned, and to get an engineers stamp was estimated at 200k. We could not raise enough cash to get it done in secret. One thing that is good, when we moved 83, the groomer gotcloser to it on theeast side so it is not as much rough trsil to get on from th east.

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10 hours ago, revrnd said:

 

 

 

There is dumb, and then there is stupid! :-o

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6 hours ago, Bigfish said:

There is dumb, and then there is stupid! :-o

I think that is beyond stupid and bordering on insane. Did ou notice a guy standing on the bridge as the idiot on the bike went by him with the front wheel off the ground at a high rate of speed. My biggest issue with this is not that the morons may have died, IMO that is fine as you reap wht you sew, but the fact if they were killed then I can see the bridge being shut down in a way that would make it impossible for others to use.

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45 minutes ago, zoso said:

I think that is beyond stupid and bordering on insane. Did ou notice a guy standing on the bridge as the idiot on the bike went by him with the front wheel off the ground at a high rate of speed. My biggest issue with this is not that the morons may have died, IMO that is fine as you reap wht you sew, but the fact if they were killed then I can see the bridge being shut down in a way that would make it impossible for others to use.

Oh I noticed that. First he was sitting on the edge & then he was standing up...

 

It's 1 thing to do stupid chit like this but when you post it online, sometimes a visit from the po po results.

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19 minutes ago, manotickmike said:

Meh.

I've been places where crossing the street is more dangerous. 

Or riding a bus.

 

South America or India?

 

In the early days of the 'net there was a website, buscrash.com

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Back to the sledding pics

 

Last pic from my 1st trip up north:

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Some people might recognise this spot:

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(What an improvement going from the S to ZX chassis)

 

Old TOP A:

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26 minutes ago, revrnd said:

Back to the sledding pics

 

Last pic from my 1st trip up north:

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Some people might recognise this spot:

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(What an improvement going from the S to ZX chassis)

 

Old TOP A:

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First pic, lake wanapitae right where 71 comes to 62?

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2nd pic my work parking lot... 3rd and 4th would they be the old Hornepayne trail South of Hearst ?

 

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9 hours ago, revrnd said:

 

South America or India?

 

In the early days of the 'net there was a website, buscrash.com

I live in Ottawa. No foreign travel required. 

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/oc-transpo-has-had-more-collision-fatalities-in-10-years-than-eight-major-canadian-transit-systems-combined

I don't use the system, not since I was squeezed into it for one trip, 11 kilometers, 1.3 hours, in 1992, but I do pay for it. 

Thank goodness for union protection, or this "driver" might have been washed out of Top Gun school.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/bus-driver-in-fridays-crash-alleged-to-have-been-in-another-collision-days-before/wcm/269eac61-7978-4327-9472-2b34c0b3c0c5

You may remember this one. This driver was having a bit of an "issue". Nobody is willing to admit what actually happened. 

https://torontosun.com/2013/09/18/oc-transpo-bus-passengers-screamed-stop/wcm/45e9e9ae-ff84-4243-9424-ac93c735b47d

They're still sorting out the lawsuits. 

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8 hours ago, zoso said:

First pic, lake wanapitae right where 71 comes to 62?

Not sure of the trail intersection but yse on the lake. The 4 retirees were stopping @ Rockies & us younger guys from the south were continuing on to Capreol for the drive home.

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2 hours ago, Denis007 said:

2nd pic my work parking lot... 3rd and 4th would they be the old Hornepayne trail South of Hearst ?

 

You shouldve let someone else guess LOL

 

It would be intetesting to see those tree plantings now.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-double-decker-bus-fire-1.4996886

2 hours ago, manotickmike said:

I live in Ottawa. No foreign travel required. 

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/oc-transpo-has-had-more-collision-fatalities-in-10-years-than-eight-major-canadian-transit-systems-combined

I don't use the system, not since I was squeezed into it for one trip, 11 kilometers, 1.3 hours, in 1992, but I do pay for it. 

Thank goodness for union protection, or this "driver" might have been washed out of Top Gun school.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/bus-driver-in-fridays-crash-alleged-to-have-been-in-another-collision-days-before/wcm/269eac61-7978-4327-9472-2b34c0b3c0c5

You may remember this one. This driver was having a bit of an "issue". Nobody is willing to admit what actually happened. 

https://torontosun.com/2013/09/18/oc-transpo-bus-passengers-screamed-stop/wcm/45e9e9ae-ff84-4243-9424-ac93c735b47d

They're still sorting out the lawsuits. 

Was there not just a Double Decker fire this week ?

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2 incidents.

One was a fire, the 2nd, people reporting a fire, was just a coolant leak, driver "didn't notice" and kept driving.

Nobody died this week, so far.

 

 

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Northern Blastoff 2001

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My '95 MXZx 440

 

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On 1/28/2019 at 8:01 PM, revrnd said:

I mentioned an old map, well I found it:

 

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(Sorry about the blurry pic)

 

I wonder if they were thinking of running the Sultan Industrial Road from the Watershed over to 129? Trail is C210

 

I believe it did at one time. In 2004 our group ran from Shining Tree to the Watershed on a marked trail that was no longer in use. We ran the Sultan road to the end then followed the side of a highway over to where some old hunt camp was ( The Bear's Den?, something to do with bears anyway) and there was a trail from that hunt camp to the F. We had gone from Elliot Lake to Chapleau on the first day and I had remembered seeing the sign on the trail for that hunt camp. It wasn't groomed but the signs were still there.

 

We were all tired, sick of trail riding and trying to get back to Elliot Lake as quick as possible. You could fly down that Sultan road until the logging trucks came then we had to climb the snowbanks to avoid getting hit.

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On 1/24/2019 at 12:40 AM, revrnd said:

Looking for a pic from our trip thru Amos back in '08 & I started going thru some our trip albums.

 

From my 1st Northern Blastoff in 2000, lunch @ the Companion. My MXZ500 is parked beside the 700 XC

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We stayed @ the Two Bridges in Kap'. It did not get a favourable rating...

 

 

I had a Grand Touring 580 like the green one at that time.

'Cept mine had a 1.75" RMK track on it at that time.

.. and the seat rest was replaced with a 10 gallon gas tank.

 

 

There's a bridge over the Magpie just outside of Wawa like that.

I think that I have a pic of my dually parked in the middle of it somewhere.

 

 

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On 1/28/2019 at 10:46 PM, revrnd said:

 

 

 

 That bridge looks like the one right near Elk Lake that Crosses the Montreal River years ago .scary chit man 

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93 AC 550 EXT

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On ‎1‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 1:22 PM, Jason T said:

Old rail bridge North east of Sudbury, the official trail goes around it now, there are no railings or sides so you want to be SLOWLY going across. Its not in the best of shape, but the view is spectacular. 

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I've rode that bridge many times on an atv.....it is high

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