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Where'd Pat run off to now? .

I guess I missed it? I don't see anything there for Algoma? .

Yeah, well - it's night, and the Montreal River cams don't work well in the dark, and the Wawa Goose cam has been down for a while now. I wish the goose cam would git fixed. .

Thanks for that update! .

We run a cpl of secret drainage's in Colorado. But Chris Burandt has started poaching in/near our secret spot a little with his guide service the last few years. I fully expect to make BC one day. Most likely on my own sled, but who knows? I've been finding new routes through the bush in Algoma since the 90's. Pic from 10 klicks off trail in Algoma - we call it "Top of Ontario Hill". .

I'm not so young, but at 58 I am the baby of our Colorado riding group. I ride with fella's that stay mobile and fit. (I am amazed really!) I'm pretty fit, but I am not the rider that I was 20 yrs ago - mostly from less time riding the last 15 yrs. Hoping to git more time to ride at some point here. If we can git "available time" and snow conditions to line up.... Two of my guy's rode a cpl days this last week - offtrail in "marginal" conditions, even worse - with a sugar base - and one came home with a busted up hood as he got tossed into a tree. We like to see 40" on the snowtell, but they were riding at 29". He's now 84 (I think) and I can sorta keep up with him now-days. He would hit that drainage! Actually - I just seen the vid where his chum ended up in the crick bottom just in the last 24 hrs! (today or last night? IDK) It really did look like all they had to doo was shovel the crick full and ride it out - which is what they did. He thought that it was gunna be a bigger job than it turned out to be. But yeah - at first - when the machine is 10' down in a hole - that doesn't register well on first glance. But it was pointed down hill already, so that was helpfull, AND only the rear end was wet. It could have been much worse. Chums machine: .

I have watched several vids by Muskoka Freerider lately. He rides out of Revy. After being on Snowest for many years - mostly back in the 20'naughts, I only knew Revy as "Turbo Hill" and such. Everything that I ever seen of the place - be it folks' pics, or many VCR tapes filmed in the area - were all shooting big hills and chute's with turbo machines. Personally, I really don't have much use for the big and wide open. But watching his vids, I have yet to see him out on the big pulls, and they are typically in the trees. One that I just watched from last year ( or 2?) was them heading down a drainage that they'd never been down before. That was a very cool ride! That's much more my kind'a riding! (exploring) So, "Revy" has changed in my mind a lot recently. .

We had a cold spell a half dozen* years ago that ... well, it was prolly 10 yrs ago by now ... anyway, it was cold enough that the rivers had tightened up enough to ride. I didn;t have time then, and usually don't have time, but I still want to one day (more likely 2 days) to hop on Bean Crick (Tiffin River) here, and run that down to the Muddy Maumee River, and run that to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and pick up the St. Joe River there, and run that all the way back home. That's be a LOT of turning on a Summit if there wasn't much snow cover! One is 4-5 miles S/E from me, and the other is not more than 10 miles west of me. I rode upstream of the Tiffin at the time to get on it with a '99 600 Summit, and that wasn't too bad, but an 850 x 165" might tire the upper body after a while. What I found so interesting, is that I may as well had been way out in the bush! Down in the river bottoms, you're always down in the tree line, and every once in a while you pass someones "camp". (home) It just felt so remote! I would like to make the big run one day when it gets that tight again. We hoped to make a similar run out of Hearst back in 2008, but we squeaked 2 motors right away with the sleighs on behind. Should have raised the needles! Decided I wasn't dragging sleighs again 'till I had fuel infection or 4 stroke. . *Sorry, don't know the metric equiv of that one?

I think I'm going to bring the LP tanks indoors for that! .

Please - don't send much to my rotary dial flip phone! I just got back from the city with a new tower. Had to replace my printer, and no drivers available for Winders7, so it was time to upgrade I guess. Kicking and screaming re: new electronics, yet I was one of the first to have a sat phone.... .

I was hoping that you would have an update today. My chum in Munising said that his yard was basically down to grass last night. Also - thanks for the lake report! That makes me feel a lot better - that it won't take much to go from here. Algoma can git 3-1/2 feet in one storm this time of year, so ... But storms like that pull down trees.... .

Them dagg'um Yanks could screw up a wet dream! .

Yep, same message. I'm not running up to Marathon tonight to buy tickets. Not good enough riding yet to justify that trip... .

His profile didn't pop up when I searched, but once I messaged the club F/B page, then there was a post there from the right Craig. I didn't message him, I just left the one to the club. I never found a Bonnie that I could tell was from there. .

I messaged them.

That used to be the deal, but a few yrs ago they added a fine on top of that I believe. I don't recall how much, but it's note-able I think. .

No, I used the "zero turn". I literally mowed lawn. I hadn't got to it the last 2 months, and after the wind last week, my yard as well as my pond is full of corn husks. It was 50* and I burnt up most of all the gas left in the machine. I would have liked to mow back here at the farm/shop as well, but time didn't allow, and no-one can see back here anyhow. Hopefully the pond will completely thaw before it flash freezes again tomorrow night, so that the fodder can all blow to one side somewhere. .

You need to grease a centrifuge routinely? Must run quite a bit? Spinning metal chips, laundry, or Uranium? I would think to NOT use reg farm grease. Of course it depends on what grease that you are using, but "standard" or base level or whatever tube grease that you have - is likely thinner than "wheel bearing grease". I was knocking out $400 top bearings on my vibratory finisher all too often. When I would take it apart (from the bottom) the bottom bearing was flooded with oil, but it was only ever "greased". Finally I called my lube guy and said that I need a case of tubes that is the next level thicker - if that is such a thing. He looked it up, and the next level grease mentioned "vibrating applications" as part of it's description. When I opened it up, it looked exactly like a can of wheel bearing grease. So I don't buy wheel bearing grease anymore, and I have not taken out a bearing in the vibratory finisher since either. The stuff that I use these days is Shell Gladus S3 V220C 2 Premium Multipurpose Extreme Pressure Grease I gave the balance of my old grease to my farmer landlord. .

I mowed yard yesterday afternoon. .

Can you jump on there and ride all the way to Wawa? There must be a narrows in there? I haven't been on that since '98 I think. (?) But as I recall, we left the badlands dam and headed 12 klicks (miles? I know it's 12 sumpthing) upstream to the new/nice cabin. Jump up on the road and run that into Dub. I don't recall the condition of the river at that point, but it almost seems like it was "dead end-y" at that point? So I ass_u_me that - depending on water depth, that may be the end of the res? .

I just remember a slushy spot on the other side of the ... lake - where you get off. .

Nope. No river pics. Keep trying.... .

Algoma has winter all this week. .

Just so long as the hockey game isn't in town this weekend.... Back-in-the-day - Manitouwadge had 2 (TWO!) motels across the road from each other, and we got the last room available. Otherwise it was all hockey! .

... and I'm sure that has been the case since the dawn of time. .