Ox

Feb 17th? Isn't that abnormally early?

I don't like to stop on ice to begin with, let alone new ice!

Well that was vague....

I would hope that anyone with a "chromed out" trailer only drives it on overcast days, and if they EVER drive in bluebird sky days, that they only drive into the sun! Not that those days are plentifull around here, just sayin' ....

They delivered 5 hours away? Or your terminal is a long way from home?

Huh, well I guess it's not just the US eh? You see, Mrs. Ox went to some insurance seminar a cpl years ago, and one of the statements made there aboot the health care costs for Yanks was: "Only in the US is death an "option"." B/c we (as a whole) will invest huge sums of $ into staying alive, even if it's not a life worth living. I personally want no part in that.

Stony: Go back and read his first paragraph - slowly... 02: You should just tell her that you are almost as paranoid as she is.

Mine is up most all the time, but I'm not seeing the speeds that y'all are. .. but I haven't ran a windshield very often in years.

I am not sure that the one in WR was Chimo or not. Rev has it right tho - it shows up as the Continental now, and very well may have been back in the day as well. The restaurant (I absolutely despise the spelling of that werd!) is the truck stop right accrost the road. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5943758,-85.2784475,3a,75y,348.5h,93.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbOj55GuUb_R4EmJJxQ3xDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 .

Wore out an old Lazer SN45 (disguised as a Ski-Doo helmet back in the 90's) I bought a new HJC and hated it as it gave me ice cream headaches! Started buying up all the old Lazers like my old one on E-bay ever since. I doo NOT recommend that you follow suit - unless you are looking for a different size than I take.

I know that I saw the (a?) Chimo in Cochrane, but I just kan't think when I would have stayed there. Possibly when we went to Moosonee in the summer of 2001 (?) as I don't recall where we stayed that trip. Cpl other times we stayed at the NAI. I wonder if there was a new Chimo that went up beside the Husky out on the hwy near White River in the late 90's? I think that may be where I am thinking. I know that we parked our snowmachines in the service bay at the Husky overnight and stayed in the new motel next door. Same owners. Actually, that may have been '97 even. Maybe someone here can verify that? I looked on the online map for White River Husky, and I remember gassing up there, and then we seen a sign in the winder of the restaurant accrost the hwy advertising all-you-can-eat s'getti, and we seemed to think that was a good idea, so we mozied on over yonder. We both ordered the s'getti and I guess that neither of us had considered that you needed to order the sauce as a side option? B/c this stuff was 95% noodles. We ate some, and when we went to head out, we were both feeling awfully tired all of a sudden, and we started eyeing the motel back accrost the hwy, and so we went there and passed out for the night. I recall the motel being east of the Husky, but - that's been nigh 25 yrs ago, so I could be gitt'n a bit senile by now.... I see that the motel doesn't say Chimo, but that could have easily changed in that time. ??? .

Long, single level building, next to a Polaris (?) dealer, on the S side of the road, between the North Adventure Inn and town? Was the dealer maybe brand new aboot that timeline? Is that what I'm thinking?

IDK? Down here, you can search property info online at the county auditor's website. Maybe similar up there? Maybe I am cornfusing it with another Chimo elsewhere? This is next door to a snowmachine dealer of some flavour eh?

I'd agree with this. I haven't stayed in Cochran in quite some time, but I think the Chimo was brand new when we stayed there, and that must'a been prox 20 yrs ago. Must'a been in the summer tho?

Well ... OK ... but the owner of that cabin would likely prefer that you blew past and didn't notice it in the firth place.

25 yrs ago - we were riding in the U P eh? Me and my chum were mentioning a certain siding where we had played the day before - to some of the locals that we were riding with this day, and they had no clue where we were talking aboot. Well, riding out of Newberry - it's not like there are many options on which direction you head, so of course we rode past that spot 1/2 hr later, and we showed them that. "Huh, I never seen that before. Must have always blown through here at WOT."

Yeah, my chums grand mum pile drove a train back in the mid 80's. (car) Dark night, parked train, back road, no lights, no DOT tape of any sort, and black cars.... She ate the dash and buggered up both knees pretty bad.

How did I guess who posted this before looking at the name? One day, maybe you will learn how to reply to a post w/o taking up so much room every time? (Hint - you can highlight the pic and hit DELETE and then just quote the text. It is possible... [most] of the rest of us have mastered it by now)

I'm thinking that she wasn't s'posed to be out yelling at you.

Yeah, it kind'a sounded like both of you were fussin' aboot this thing not being taken seriously. Don't git me wrong - I find the whole thing rather pointless past the "don't swamp the meds", and I hope to go riding soon, but still waiting for more snow.

I would be the clown long before I would climb on that thing! I have a history of being that clown tho too I guess.... Not more than 5 yrs old, but fer sure - pre kiddygarten, I liked to wander out in the steer pen when they were outside. The fence was [non-moveable] stanchion style WWW, and I could run right through it at that age. I would wander in there just "so" far and get someone's attention, and then stick my thumbs in my ears and wave my fingers and "blablablabla" 'till someone would git pissed off and start chasing after me. As time went on, I would git braver and put more distance out there. Then one day I knew that I had bitten off more than I could chew. I know darn well that _ that steer was snort'n down my drawers as I blew through that fence like it wasn't even there, straight through the barn door, and straight to the house @ full tilt boogie! Never missed a beat! That just so happened to be the last time that I did that...

Gotta love it! In a thread where they are bitchin' aboot everyone else not locking down werth a Schidt, 2 strangers decide that they need to get together for a ride.

I don't understand why - if you have planned to go skipping - and if you was at this event in Dorset, then obviously it is planned - why wouldn't you have soap on a rope and seat off? (Tide bottle) I've never done it - really, but there have been several times when it was just water coming out the back of the sled, although it was snow covered on top. But I wonder about how a mtn sled acts? I'm thinkin' that you would likely want to go slower with the long track and big lugs?

OK then, I know Gardiner, I just thought that the trail north looked like it was on the other side of the river already at town. No?

Where is that ice bridge? That's not at Gardiner - is it? Or is it clear up at the dam? (Maybe you can't drive accrost the dam?) I haven't ran that trail up before. I have been up there in the truck, but I think that the trail runs on the east side of the river?