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Ox

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  1. Are any of us going to be alive long enough to ride it - let alone pay it off? --or-- "Go for it - what'cha got to lose eh?"
  2. I don't "assume" that. That is how I "remember" that. I was not involved personally - as I am a Yank eh? But pretty sure that was what I heard back at that time. If you know differently - by all means - put it out there. This is for the Pic River, French River, and maybe a cpl smaller ones? Possibly/probably anything that Superior Engineering (?) from The Soo designed / had built. These had price tags above what trail passes would ever pay for. Again - that is what I recall hearing back at that time. I can not say who I heard it through, just discussions at the time. May be able to dig it up on The Soo Star archives maybe? Not saying that the OFSC didn't write the cheque, but if so - that would have been via a Provincial or Fed grant. Only point here is that those bridges are all paid for via public, or at least semi public loonies. (including mine) Whether it was paid for via a grant from Toronto, Ottawa, or via trail pass fees, they are not private property. https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/regional-news/parry-sound/bridge-development-expected-to-boost-tourism-1201-361033 http://www.sno-kickers.com/bridge/index4.html .
  3. The one in the pic looks like it has a rumble seat, but I think that's just sumpthing else parked behind it. ???
  4. Well, pretty sure that is just a Doo under a new hood is all.
  5. I don't recall this, but it's been a long time since.... I take it that this is tailing piles behind the two gold mines? We have a pile like that behind the GM Foundry in Defiance, but I guess you have a good sized pile where you're at too eh? .
  6. IDK aboot the summer part. So many times it seems that the OFSC bridges are gated in the summer. I don't understand it. Pisses me off. Besides - pretty sure The Queen paid for those big bridges anyway...
  7. I buy two tags every year, and I check BOTH boxes, but I haven't gotten Supertrax in a LONG time. I don't know if I only git one mag even tho I get two tags or what?
  8. Can you put a year on that? B/c I never knew of a trail between there and Nippigon. The only other sledder that I know from TB is Dynamo Joe.
  9. Looks like 40 klicks on the old Superior Snow Challenge map. Referred to as Dunc Lake intersection, but it seems to be a ways away from the actual lake. ???
  10. That's the short/sweet of it - yes. But they were just prepping the bank, not actually trying to cross. Just got out too far and broke through. One guy made it out and hoofed it back to Manitouwadge overnight in -30 temps, and walked straight into the hospital (Band-aid station?) there. Amazingly he made it, but the trainee did not surface.
  11. Deadfall is a major concern for that area I think. The north shore seems to git it's share of ice storms, and - maybe deadfall aint the biggest issue, but down sapplings anyway. If you have longtracks and want to go play, you could ride out of Terrace Bay in a few directions (not South) and maybe get a ways. Depending on how much snow they have. Some years a lot, some years hardly any - as they are on the wrong side of the lake for any lake effect. (usually) There is a million loony bridge yonder that should see a skdoo at some point again one day... Even when the trail system was in place over there, it still never went west of Nippigon as Thunder Bay is a black hole for trail support, and has been that way all along.
  12. Even back-in-the-day, when those clubs were still clubs, they still had very few weeks of open trail each year. I highly recommend that folks go hit that area if/when they are open, but don't wait for groomed trails west of Marathon in the foreseeable future.
  13. Actually, we planned to ride up to Moosonee over Christmas break '96, but we called Tozer a day or so before and he said that he had just flown the river earlier that day (he is a bush pilot) and despite the -40* weather, there was still too much open water, and we wouldn't be able to make it at that time. This was before he had the camp south of town. Or at least camp as we now know it...
  14. Several yrs ago a group from Mich sleighed up and made a loop up over Lake Nippigon. Is that what you are thinking of?
  15. I've been to Moosonee on the train a long time ago, but not since. Marc G had a WT last I knew. Yeah, maybe. You thinking heading north from Ernies? I know Marc runs that, and I hope to try that one day too.
  16. 25 yrs ago there was a story in Michigan Snowmobiler (?) or it maybe it was in some Polaris magazine (?) about two recently retired guys that had taken Jet Ski's (Polaris) on a big loop I think. I think that they started at Chi-Town and rode over to and down the Mississippi, then down the Fla coast to Key West, and then I think they came back up the east coast and back up to the Great Lakes, either via the Erie Canal (prolly?) or maybe The St Lawrence. I don't recall that part anymore, but I'm pretty sure that they completed the loop. I always thought that something like that, or - a ride to Churchill like some fella's doo, or something like that would be so much fun/interesting/bragging rights... Back in (I think) 2008 we planned to ride to Moosonee, up the coast, and back down the Albany. Starting and ending in Hearst. Prox 700 miles - mostly all on waterway. There was a chance that we would ride up to Attawapiskat to see what that looked like before much of the mine traffic effected it. However - with heavy sleighs in tow - we burnt down 2 motors before we got anywhere. Apparently we should have adjusted our needles up a bit as the steady throttle must have been right in that lean spot. Came home with tail between legs. Not to try aggin with less than fuel infection, or preferably 4 stroke, but I don't see the 4 stroke thing happening, unless I buy one just for that run... .
  17. My guess is each separate as they each had their own title or reg numbers.
  18. For those of y'all that don't remember this - Textron owned Polaris back in the mid/late 70's. Pic from my 1975 Owners Manual for my new Town and Country 175 - whch was a GREAT kids sled. Top out aboot 70 klicks, but you couldn't shake me in the trails. (single path through woods, not logging roads) As for Yammi - I see that have a 2 stroke Mtn Max offered aggin. Looks like a blue Cat, but I'm guessing that it has Yammi clutches yet?
  19. I think you need to slow down on your reading.
  20. "Many Moons Ago" Did that motor actually start fwd and then change direction? Or just able to start backwards somehow? THAT is likely the reason Doo had a patent?
  21. Yeah, I think you are right - that they did trade features. That seems to ring a bell. "Always being able to" and being able to efficiently - and on cue is two different things. You need a secondary timing mark to make it work well.
  22. Kept the radial thrust (?) going the direction they wanted? Did they reverse cut all the gears in the tranny and rear axle then too? Or maybe just use a center section made for a 4wd front axle?
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