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  1. I am deeply appreciative of your comments they mean more than I can say. It has been a journey, not as long as others journeys and for that I am grateful. After I finished my radiation I had some internal bleeding and bowel blockages as such I ended up admitted to hospital and a little worse fo wear. However I have rebounded from that. Last wek was a great week for us. My PSA initially tested at 13.2 my recent test is 0.04 the cat scansshow great results and the Urologist is very positive for my future . To early to say we won but things look very good . Thank you for all of your kind words as for me . I GUESS IT IS TIME TO RAISE SOME HELL AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    33 points
  2. After having to cancel Quebec trip over Christmas and again in March (was to do new Liskeard - Chibougamau loop this week) with my 16 year old son (as he could legally ride in Quebec this year) - wasn’t going to let a March break pass without something. we had previously cancelled a trip out to Revelstoke over family day weekend as they had a major thaw - so we decide to rebook for Wednesday and Thursday this week. best single day of sledding I’ve ever had. Think I’ve even improved from last year!
    22 points
  3. We have great closing season to Mont Valin. Trails are awesome, also we got dump of snow on Sunday. Still a couple weeks left to enjoy riding. Start your truck guys. Some great memories to share
    21 points
  4. Started the day in Orangeville and rode the rail bed up to Owen Sound. A nice 200 k day to kick the season off. Seriously , I couldn't believe how good the conditions were considering where we were at 2 weeks ago! Great day of riding and maybe saw 40 sleds through out the day .. no to busy at all! Nice flat trail and a lot of snow , especially as u get north . Get out and enjoy!
    20 points
  5. Met up with friends and introduced to new friends. Driving time from Toronto to Mont Valin approx 12 hours. Accommodation was at Destination Mont Valin. Had the pleasure to stay one night in the chalet and the remaining nights in the loft. Gas pumps at our doorstep 😀 Lunch & Dinner Relais Onatchiway Auberge 31 La Chapelle (closes early on Sunday) Gas (91 octane) at all these locations We also ventured out to the ice cave, that's a must! 😜 Temperature was -20 C and sunny on the first day of riding. Crisp and clear riding conditions. Second day Temps were around -12 C with overcast and sunny periods and some flurries. Third day Temps fluctuated from -14 C to -7 C overcast. Covered the entire riding area In 3 days with our group of 8 riding on Polaris and Ski Doo One word - AWESOME
    17 points
  6. 1st ride of the season for us in Sault Ste. Marie. A good start to winter and very close to last year's timeline.
    16 points
  7. Blue bird day have only seen about 10 sleds so far today we left Val -dor this morning around 9 everyone was in the parking lot taking selfies on them selfs and there sleds so we must have got ahead of them lol
    15 points
  8. Found a beautiful blue bird day - unfortunately missed out on my ability. Got a 165” 3” paddle good and stuck in the mountains , luckily my son came back to help me dig out and pull.
    15 points
  9. Well my buddy wanted to ride his rebuilt Boost so last minute we decided to head to Poplar Point Camp by Elk lake and try place out. Great cabins. And super owners. We went out with owner for a ride Friday afternoon and ran out of snow to north East. So we turned around and rode South into the higher elevations. Fun ride on logging roads. Yes some thinner spots. Yes I hit some rocks. Today my buddy and I were out for a few hour run. And heading out again after lunch. I know it’s not for everyone but I already own the sled and extra carbides. Plus spare skis so WTF.
    14 points
  10. Flat light day with squals. Parked at Linwood Community Center. I rode from Linwood, through Conestoga Lake, Listowel, Atwood, lunch at Brussels. Across the top of what is open after lunch, wroxeter, Fordwich, Clifford, Harriston Teviotdale, Arthur and back to Linwood. Conestogo is fine. The odd thin spot in a field, bush trails are thin. West side had not been groomed in a couple days. Some areas heavily drifted. Couple of wet bushes near Listowel, passable. Snow is better above Atwoodand kept getting deeper to Brussels. Atwood was groomed. Bush trails are still thin but many of the fields are heavily drifted. As we travelled east towards Clifford the snow gets thinner. Clifford area was groomed. Below Harriston the plowed fields start showing through. There was a section of trail near Harriston that should be closed. It’s completely chewed from a tractor, no snow, 5 mph crawl. Below Teviotdale there are plenty of plowed fields where the tops are showing through and it’s very thin cover near Arthur. Arthur area was groomed. 215 kms for the day. Good first run. I stained my knee on the weekend but figured I’d be fine. My knee says NO…..lol Half a dozen trucks at the Linwood community Center when got there around 330. Id say we passed 70-80 sleds through the day, half of those after 2pm.
    14 points
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  12. Rode to Matagami today fresh groomed all the way up and trail was in really good shape on the way down to lebel-sur-Quevillon where we are spending the night. See about 20 sleds today light flurries most of the afternoon sky is clear now and +1
    13 points
  13. Ran from senneterre to chiboug today, about 370km. yes snow is on the lower side, but a fantastic ride with no complaints. passed/saw 3 to 4 groups on the trails. just a few pictures from the day.
    13 points
  14. Trails are pretty good for the most part ticking enough rocks not much base but feel fantastic to riding
    13 points
  15. All, My group of 6 meet at the Forrestal at Val D'Or Sunday, and we did 3 day trips, total of just over 800KM's, so that the 3 new Sidewinders could get their breakin and first check complete. Trails QC Yellow for the most part, but were ON Green in many sections. Day 1 was 386 Southbound . 1 big washout (may be fixed as trail Green today. South of the community, it becomes a travelled winter road, so we aborted and headed back. That trail was a hard Yellow this past Monday. (Day we did 25KM of the day 2 ride to check it out - Sweet ride!) Day 2 83 - local connector - 83. (300Km round trip) We headed out to Lac Fillion for fuel and lunch (NO MENU - they have what they have when you get there, soup or sandwhich. $2\Litre (I dont know if Prem or not). Long open winding roads, except for the Yellow section which has forestry work, trail beside the road, snow covered but have to watch the trail. Small 1 lane washout. Day 3 - (250KM) We headed West up to AMOS mostly on the 83, then the 307 North,. NOTE: The river in AMOS is open, so you have to cross a long-_ss bridge with traffic to head back East to the Amosphere for lunch. Took 93 and to 313 south. (Route outbound over the top of ValDOr, "Not nice" , maybe the route under VD West bound is nicer. Very nice ride except for Bridge and getting out of VD. PDF of stats attached. Pretty great save for this season. Looks like they got some of this snow, as many trails are Green today 16 Feb. Hotel: Breakfast buffet - $25+tax. Club or Smoked meat sandwhich - $25. Waited 1 hour for meal both Sunday and Monday night. If you check Expedia, get the rate, call the hotel should\may match rate. Sunday to Tue was $187\night\room + TAXES. Wed $214\night + taxes. Cheers Andy SLD2024 GPS Data OC.pdf
    13 points
  16. Rode out of Bird Creek, up to Whitney for lunch, back through Lake St Peter. Decent base with 6"+ of fresh on top. Good for a ride. Passed the groomer on B106E near Maynooth on the way back to the truck.
    13 points
  17. Lots of amazing news for Kearney sledders. I am not going to update days and hours on this post for restaurants as they always change constantly once the trails are officially open. Best phone ahead or check facebook pages for individual sites to see up to the minute schedules. First off, the Legion. Amazing rebuild of their parking lot, probably increased the parking area 4 times what it was before. Lots of room now for trucks and sled trailers. Also the Legion has had a major facelift and Donna and her team at DJ's restaurant inside have signed up for their 4th winter. New at the Legion this year has been breakfast buffets on weekends and often buffets on weekend dinner times. Free pool, darts etc. Children are welcome in the main dining room. Remember please, if you just park and ride and do not purchase food or alcohol, but DO go in and use the bathrooms, throw a few bucks in the tip jar at the counter, those lovely ladies have to clean the bathrooms and stock the paper,soap etc. At Fork on Main, April and her team are hard at work running what was previously known as Suds on Main. Same great menu a few years now, liquor licence and often April has live entertainment at no extra charge. They also have dart nights. Right next to Fork on Main in the little brown building has a take out coffee shop now with grab and go muffins or fruit and a small veggie selection. This is run by Doug and he is open 7 days a week. Pit Stop 518 and Pit Stop cafe are no more. Unfortunately. However Pit Stop 518 still has Yurts for overnight rent, complete with woodstove and firewood. Very nice set up. Scarlet Point Resort on Main Street has high end townhomes for daily rent, at very reasonable prices. Lots of parking there and very popular with tourists. Edgewater is always a highly recommended resort, restaurant is open almost 7 days a week and they have gas. Fetterleys gas station is still the place in town for gas, quick coffee and Heather has opened up the bays and renovated and turned that area into a hardware store. Rickwards Canoe Algonquin Store is still going strong. They also have hot coffee, lots of grocery items as well and Rickwards Polaris Dealership is on the same property. And now for very exciting news ....... Silversands out past Edgewater is reopened under new management. Rooms, and restaurant up and running as of this week, lots of parking. Very reasonable overnight rates and the dining room can seat lots of sledders at once. They do not have social media pages up and running yet, I wouldnt get my info off of old facebook pages. If you would like reservations at this time please call 6478600631 and Lazmill will answer any questions you have about the restaurant or rooms. Had his breakfast this week, very good. Coffee was excellent. The LCBO is still closed on Mondays but the variety store in Emsdale has an LCBO outlet, as does Hope's Novar grocery store, which also has gas. If you are wanting pizza Yettis pizza on 518 in Emsdale is the town go to place for Pizza. Hope this is helpful for anyone needing a refresher on Kearney or new sledders just thinking of trying out this area. Stay safe and enjoy our trails!
    13 points
  18. Snowing steady all morning in Wasaga, had lots of fun playing in the snow, my son riding his mini Viper, and testing out all the new ski gear making sure he’s warm and comfortable. Consistent snow on the way home until 89. Barrie looked like there was slightly more snow. (Little guy is ready to rail corners on a 120 next winter )
    13 points
  19. Well look at me Figured it out all by myself Didn't need the kids help lol
    13 points
  20. Happy New Year’s everyone 🎉❄️❄️❄️
    13 points
  21. North of Sault Ste. Marie yesterday. Lakes were flat as a pancake. We did an 8 lake cross-country then tied back into the OFSC trail. It was a good day.
    13 points
  22. Winter is getting it's 2nd wind
    12 points
  23. But you won’t. 😂😂
    12 points
  24. Had a Great Lake tour today. Mackenzie, Papineau, Bark, Cross, and Caughlin..going to go for a crap tomorrow. Too bad it’s not even March yet..usually my favourite month. Hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy it while it lasted. I’m hopeful for another good stretch of weather w some significant snow.
    12 points
  25. I'm heading out grooming tomorrow to see if we can salvage some trails
    12 points
  26. I rode 190 km in HF yesterday. Definitely not recommending for the fair weather sledders. Fortunately I’m not in that group yet, so I had a great ride. More than half the trails were fairly rough; either mild washboard or rutted from sled/quad traffic during the +10 last week. A fair amount of exposed rocks and bare spots, but most of these could be ridden around. Not many water cuts, and were easy to cross. I had my old carbides/ski on, I probably would be less happy if I had the 2024 carbides installed it was icy, I had the scratcher down pretty much all day. Any time I put it away, the engine temp immediately jumped from 70C to 90. Some trails were bad and some were good, unfortunately I do t remember the names of the bad one. A great ride, glad I got out.
    12 points
  27. You shouldn't comment on things like this that you have NO real knowledge about!
    12 points
  28. Well, just spent my lunch hour buying my son a new dirt bike! Might as well get something we'll use. Ready for spring now
    12 points
  29. Groomer just rolled through our place. He will have at least one pass on 90% of his assigned trails by midnight. A goood days work.
    12 points
  30. Dunlop Lake Lodge Booked it. Arriving on March 8th for a weekend of riding at Dunlop Lake and surrounding Elliot Lake area. There are 2 guarantees in life. 1.) The sun rises in the morning. 2.) Dan will be riding a Polaris Wedge Hope to see some of you there. Dan
    12 points
  31. Mid winter conditions in Abitibi Quebec, should be good for a few weeks yet.
    12 points
  32. Few trees down w all that wind. What snow is left is thin..very icy in the bush. Good fishing weather..not good for much else. I’m at 2400 km this year and and 2700 last year. No complaints from me. Next year will be better..I’m an optimist 😎
    11 points
  33. It was decent leaving temis, ville marie to la tulipe was thin but rideable, la tulip was sweet half way to la force was icey on lower route 63 and up. La force up 309 was minty to the shelter the whole length. Stopped for lunch at rapid 7. Malartic to amos on 83, 307, 93 was choppy but met the groomer just south of town. 400 clicks. Excellent day🫠
    11 points
  34. Parked in beautiful downtown Durham around 230pm and took the trail west then turned north over the top of Durham to the railbed, south to the B111 and back to the trailer for 120 km afternoon. Road run sections were mostly solid and there was a bit of snow to run on at the sides which was surprising. Trails on the west side and up to the railbed were groomed last night. So was the railbed but it was getting hard to tell, lots of traffic. Klondyke had groomed their section of the B111 and it was good but no grooming on the Durham side and it was completely bombed out garbage. Only pictures of the good stuff…….lol The bad was bad. Some of the sections should be closed but I’m sure tomorrow will do them all in.
    11 points
  35. Kanawata to clova, around 255. 83 to parent was good. 83 closer to clova had some thin sections, especially the area that had forest fires this past summer from I assume combination of logging now going on and lack of wind protection with so many trees burnt up….quite a bit of damage caused by the fires. A few pictures, beauty day with the bright sun and cold.
    11 points
  36. We ran Amos to Matagami and back yesterday. I was about 10km out from gas when the sled started coughing. Dumped in some of the linqs gas. Took 35litrs to fill in matagami. Minty the whole way up! No restaurant open on sundays in matagami. Food stuff at gas station we heated up later at warm up shack. Came back down same way. Dumped all gas in at lower warm up shelter. Still took 35 litres in amos. Fast running and chewing fuel with 2 900T's. All trails in great shape. Dinner at st.huberts. The river crossing is fine in amos but still shows closed. Heading back to Temis today and will update tonight. One of the riders on the abitibi map cover sure looks very familiar lol!
    11 points
  37. Currently snowing in northern Haliburton
    11 points
  38. Maybe not! Those wanting out are going to have to give their sleds away. There are already hundreds of good sleds at great prices for sale in southern Ontario. Adding more on the supply side can only further hurt resale prices. Might be better to just keep the sled(s) and adjust your sledding expectations. A rider who has been sledding 4-6000 km per year, might only only get 2-2500 km this year. Similar ratio applies to the more casual low km rider. I had an enjoyable warm up of 70 km out of Fergus last Friday afternoon. Yesterday, out of Elmira, I got another 160 km in decent trail conditions down your way with Mr and Mrs Woodsy. Must embrace small victories like that and stop griping. I guess that's a lot easier to do when I'm not over invested in equipment or emotional anticipation. I will get north a couple of times and that might be all she wrote, but sign me up for the 2025 trail pass as soon as its available. We have always heard that diversification is the key to a financial portfolio. Same for powersports - have something ready to play with come April and use it. Key to happiness!
    11 points
  39. Another 3-4 inches today.
    11 points
  40. Still snowing in Haliburton. Nice to get out for a ride.
    11 points
  41. Our final ride for the weekend. Back to work tomorrow. We put 60 kms on today north of Sault Ste. Marie.
    11 points
  42. Yesterday in Sudbury, man they had a lot of snow. Grandson decided sledding was a better option than school
    11 points
  43. Golden leaving Temis. Rapid 7 (309)was great the whole way up. Little short stretch of crap after ville marie but still ok. 413km's
    10 points
  44. That's methed up. Ski
    10 points
  45. Always nice to bump into fellow OC’rs on the trail! Today, Rode from Linwood , north up to Mt Forest and loops around Palmerston and Listowel. Conditions were pretty good. Some rough patches though , not enough to stop me from going again. 😉
    10 points
  46. Blowing horizontally in kincardine . Had to get out and spin the new sled and track on backroads / ditches.
    10 points
  47. I would say we have 30-40cm on the ground here in sudbury now. Groomers are on the move. Should see some colour next week.
    10 points
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