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Rode near Aubrey Falls this weekend, and had the joy of dragging this out of the bush.

Hydro: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Abitibi+Canyon,+ON,+Canada/@49.717424,-81.6017282,16365m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4d16327856e495c9:0xb99603fe74e3013c!8m2!3d49.8790539!4d-81.571385 Terrain? Other than the Canyon it'self, I'm not sure there's more than 10' of topography between Cochrane and Moosonee. It's aboot as dead flat as you can git. I could look up the marks on the topo map, but don't want to dig'm out right now. We're lookin' at a big pc of paper with hardly any lines on it!

I prolly have some somewhere, but .....

I've always heard "lice", but I'm not an insectomologyst. ??? There was one time that we were stopped - wrenching on sumpthing, and I have a "trunk" built on my old sled, and I had the lid set aside on the ground. A few minutes later when we turned around - there were thousands of them up in that lid. Just amazing! Just dumped them out. LOL! Usually see them late season.

See the snirt showing in the firth pic? Up north they don't have that problem. However - if you DOO see sumpthing that looks like that - It's likely snow lice. And there can be HUUGE (in my best Trump voice) areas spread all down the trail of them. .

Weeeellll then heck - may as well git'cher money's worth eh?

Many moons ago we were heading west on D into ... Schreiber (or maybe Terrace Bay?) and we found a helmet in the middle of the trail. ??? We stopped and looked all over. Looked around some more.... And then a little longer yet .... Finally we found two gurls (ladys) that were out putzing around two up (don't recall the skidoo, but it was a little older I think) and I think they said that the throttle stuck on them and they went for a dead run (?) stright for the trees - clear over there! About that time the snow started coming down like twoney's! Dead calm and the snow coming down so hard - it was almsot blizzard conditions! So we fetched the gurls out of the bush and sent them on their way. Turns out that we were pretty close to town, so they could have walked it off if need be. Fortunately they didn't git hurt! I don't think they bailed, and obviously they didn't think to hit the kill switch. I'm just glad there wasn't a head in that helmet when we found it! .

Back-in-the-day when the trail south out of Hearst actually went SOUTH out of Hearst (not west to Mooseland) we were cruising along pretty good on the groomed trail right beside the road, just outside of town somewhere, and didn't notice a driveway crossing. We were likely running 85/90 klicks? The trail pitched up a bit for the drive, but on the other side of the drive it must have dropped out 10'. We were both a ways down the trail when we landed. Didn't really slow down, but sure looked back to see what just happened!

About what I was thinking.....

Well, one of them did actually swamp it early in the vid. Not sure if this version shows it or not. So that leaves one guy swimming by himself, or the other two w/o a spotter and vid recorder. So not sure that it really mattered? Yeah - it showed it, and I guess they fished him out before the moved on down river. Maybe the other two beached it for a bit?

I wonder if that is even deeded property, or a right-of-way on Crown Land up there?

There must be some sort of understanding on both sides as I am sure that it was posted here a month ago that it was all groomed. Prolly just can't post it officially open until the T is dotted and all the I's are crossed? I can't imagine that the hydro is concerned about anything other than liability, which I think is pretty much covered by law anyhow?

Any chance she thought that you said Fort, in stead of Port? I could see that bein' a bit of an issue.... ??? I'd like to ride through there some day, but I don't know aboot moving there....

Yeah, what he said.

... and that ratt there is what they could target. "No riding off of QFSC (?) approved trails, and no riding ON THEM unless it is determined by sanctioned, bonded and insured agents of the provincal clubs that they are safe and open for business." Or any other means that sounds good at the time to make it appear that they are "dooing sumpthing to save us from ourselves".

Sure they can. And they DOO! Doesn't mean it werks, but it sure makes life that much worse for the rest of us!

The problem stems from the fact that we have oodles of people hired simply to pass new laws. Just how many "new" laws doo we need? Just enough to keep up with evolving tech is all IM/HO. So what's a politician s'posed to doo? We could even ditch 1/2 of the ones that we have currently too....

This is from my personal stash, so please be carefull with it.

Oh yeah - yet another doo-gooder going to pass yet another law....

Boy, that Yammi has got windshield! Kind'a like the late 70's when the Exciters and Enticers had fan cooled motors and tunneled the heat up behind the windshield. We didn't have heated grips or thumb warmers, nor shield, but that heat was somewhat noticeable.

I could show you around Algoma, and I'm 600 klicks away. I'm guessing that most guides don't git far from the lodge. (Don't need to know too big of an area)

I guess it could be relivent to a LH turn onto a cross or adjacent trail as well.

I'm just not seeing how that story coincides with the original? Sounds like complete opposite roll reversals.

Well, the guide should have known - be'inst that is what he is hired for. The others were following someone that was s'posed to have known. Falling through in a current is usually a death sentence I think. Terrible.