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Not sure who the guy is in the video, but that's not the guy that builds them. This guy looks/sounds like Dave Norona, but says his name is Shane. ??? This is the guy that builds them . Pic taken Crested Butte, Col >10 yrs ago on his 550 fan Pol w/162 track, no seat, and lightweight hood. Oh yeah - other chum behind has his Blade sled that we picked up in Eveluth, Minn - prolly same trip(?) on the way out a cpl days earlier. Pic must be New Years 2002/2003? I think that was the day that I had to buy steak supper for the group in Gunnison that night as it was determined that I was stuck the most. 100+ year old steak house burnt down later that night. (Cattleman's?)

Yeah. A riding buddy of mine in Colorado makes them. https://high-jacker-snowmobile.myshopify.com/ Algoma I Shirley used the jack to git out of this grave:

Most folks would more likely borrow/lend a $4000 machine to a newbie, but .... I did borrow a chums M11 a few yrs ago, and he said that if I bugger it, I buy it, he didn't want it fixed. Fair enough. I was glad to have rode it too as that Turbo1100 can be a blast for a few minutes, until you try to come back down the hill and that heavy front end is more interested in checking snow depth than actually going down the hill. I was contemplating a 4 stroke for durrability porpoises, and I'd heard that they were bad for that, but some guys are just primadana's, so I wasn't sure. After that day - I was sure, and ended up buying an 850 next. Buddy on [one of his] M11's (not the same one) stuck in the mud on top of the hill Easter weekend @ Togwatee Pass maybe 5 years ago. But the 1100 can climb! Here is his white one after knocking the snow off the top half of the hill in The Badlands @ Wawa. But if it doesn't have much base - here again - near Wawa somewhere.... And you guys are fussin' about trailering to Sudbury. LOL! .

I got my "tractor" drivers licence when I was 14, does that count?

I doubt that'll last. I'm upwind of you and it's all wet here. Calling for 2-4" (rain) in NW Ohio. As long as it doesn't reach The Soo, I'm good...

You know - that site must have been built by a politician. Tells you want they want to tell you, but never addresses the questions.

I've never met them, but they are not new by any means. Over 20 yrs for sure! I'm sure they are a good crew or they wouldn't still be going. Another option is to just head north and try to hook up with someone else. I've done it before, and also picked up a cpl once as well.

Yeah, a 4 corner seize IS up to the rider. Denis - note that I wanted to "like" your post aboot the cold jugs, but the software said that I liked too much stuff today already. ??? .. And on the subject of cold jugs, a local sledder here posted a pic of a tree full of booby traps in Da UP eh. IDK what on Earth that's all aboot.... .

Oh heck, I'd hit that without a doubt! We stayed at the Rodeway In too last week, but ours was in Gunnison, Col. .

I kicked my mom off a dealer borrowed Rupp American (my dad helped out at the dealership in the winter) when I was 9, and went'n played on the hills of a big sink hole near Grayling, Mich. Found that the top of the pull was all ice, and was not studded. Stopped about 8' or ? from the top, spinning WOT, and could see a tree root sticking out a cpl feet in front of my ski, and knew that if I somehow get that far, that root will Shirley stop me in my tracks with no hope. Looking back down that hill - I knew the decent backwards would not be pretty... As I set here today, all I can say is that the hand of God came down and grabbed a ski hoop and gave me a big tug, and I shot over the top. I was not allowed to ride that sled again, but did get my own new sled a few weeks later. (small Pol noted on the left) Came out WAY better than it could have!

The Soo Trailblazers said that they had 3000 klicks of trail all down with freezing rain, and was hoping for help clearing brush. I don't know how it adds up that quick, but that's what they had on their FB page the other day. I would think that a cpl sunny days would make a LOT of difference. Wish I could run up and help. Sault Trailblazers January 3 at 2:58 PM · HELP IS NEEDED! Looking for any volunteers who can help with cutting and removal of trees and brush from our trail system. Volunteers are asked to meet up tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. at the end of Connor Road (if you're later just head up trail). Bring your sled along with any saws and/or brush axes you may have. The plan is to work up the east trail along with trail over to Heyden. Note, we also have an Excavator working on the trail removing the larger trees. Any assistance would be much appreciated!! .

McKinley?

I've told this before, but prolly in the "North" page, so: Back in Dec '96 we were heading N out of Dubreuilville on Luke's two lane highway after dark. No other tracks, and maybe 6" of fresh. I was running clean-up. (2 of us) I could have sworn that I seen a small fox jump into the trail as soon as my buddy went through. look up and see me, and jump back out. I was wide eyed in amazement of what I thought that I had seen.... But then I got's'ta thinkin' that my chum had a set of saddle bags from 1980 on his sled, and I was bett'n that one of them fell off and rolled around. That made more sense than what I thought I'd seen.... So I slow way up to almost a stop. Finally a cpl klicks later - my chum notices and stops, so I catch up. But when I got there, I noticed that both saddle bags were on his sled. (and gas can) So I told him what I thought that I'd seen, and .... He said - "You seen that fox too?" Different fox, but this one I "shot" many years ago while stopped at the T road at Pineal Lake, while exploring for Halfway to see if the hydro line on the other side could be used for trail.

That's the singular of "Links" I take it?

I have seen plenty of wildlife from a skidoo, but prolly not as much as from a (quiet) ATV. However - those quiet ATV's got us a wee bit too close to a cow and calf one time on Point Lake Road. We got kind'a lucky that day. You can git here in ways other than a snowmachine, but not easily:

Base Camp Abitibi Canyon December 26 at 4:07 PM · Now that we are at the camp for winter we can fill our customers in on what went down there the 1st weekend of Nov, there was a B&E done there and they spent time there two trucks two trailers and we lost upwards of 80,000 in stuff including the new kitchen that was going in along with everything else they could take. The police were notified and have requested the camera footage from the dam to see if they can see anything but who knows!! We considered closing because to be honest we don’t need the bullshit and it isn’t like some people think, it’s a long cold hard 4 months and anything we do there is a fight with all the ministries involved and the costs of doing anything up there are of the charts. Anyways long and short of it is that we have had a security company come in and extreme measures have been put in place from here on forward. No we did not go through our insurance company because our insurance was very hard to get and it’s more less in place for an explosion or something along those lines. So if we don’t have everything there when people snap there fingers try and be patient because it has taken a lot of Will to open this year and a lot of money!! Thanks Joe

Almost shocked that some doo-gooder hasn't turned in the fact that there is a bridge in a park that doesn't have sideboards and the waterway have a fence up near it for 10 meters in both directions on both sides!

Not to pick on you 02, as many have the same feelings .... But that post screams of "I like big Government, and since I had to pony up for something that I don't use, I want someone now to pony up for something that they don't use" mentality. What that ends up as is more taxes (fees?) are levied for more things that are not needed, all b/c "I want mine too". Tell me, can you now list as many things that ARE publicly funded that you DOO use? Like - say Crown Land? Public waters? I bet that you can if you wanted to. Trust me - I'm sorta on the same page, but ... I'm on the back side of the page.... I'm more other things NOT being funded, rather than "mine too". It's kind'a the same - except it's now MY (your) money that we're spending, rather than someone else's that we may spend a lot easier. .

OK, using your ratios, I figgered out Mamma's 'Burban. We took a trip through Da UP Eh! over Labour Day weekend. Up through the Mak, all over Da UP, and back down through that cheesehead state and back through Chi-Town.... We averaged 10.3 litres/100 on her (2013?) 'Burban with the 327 (I spose?) but it shuts off cyls when not needed. Many of the newer gassers are really good. My BIL had a 3/4 ton 4wd with the small hemi and got 15mpg (US) just around home. And had plenty ass to pull race car. I don't want to have anything to doo with all that smog schidt on the new diesels! On contrast, I got 15.3MPG (us) with my dually empty this week round tripping Toronto (401) with the Cummins on winter fuel. That was way better than expected on winter fuel! .

re: Diesels I never understood the whole "Maintenance costs" argument ??? In the last 20 years and >330,000 miles, I have put prolly $2500 (US) in "repairs" on my Cummins motors. 280K miles on '99 from new, and the '06 from 145K to 195K. (So not 5 brand new motors) An injector pump on my '99 and an injector on my '06. I have heard of WAY higher repair bills for other motors, but not the Cummins. ??? Other than that - of course there is alternators and whatnot, but that's all the same anyhow. Oil changes, folks like to fuss about that, but nothing says that you have to use the most expensive schidt that you can find on the shelf. Diesels have been running for >100 years on less. I run Rotella most of the time, but I have ran Mobile 1 if I think I'm gunna park in the bush @ -30* as the old '99 doesn't like to start that cold w/o being plugged in. She WILL start, but under a LOT of noted duress, so I put the thin stuff in for that porpoise. I still have that truck as it's my plow truck and my "yard truck" for my gooseneck around the farm/shop. Sure, you use 2wice as much oil at change time, but you can run 2wice as many miles between, so ??? Now - with all that said - when I was looking for a "new" truck a few years back, I am pretty sure that I would NOT have bought another diesel as I'm just not puting that many miles on my truck currently, and I think that a bigger gas would be fine - compared to the $10,000 option upcharge for the big diesels. However - I ended up buying a 10 yr old Florida truck with another Cummins in it for 1/2 price. Now the motor will wear out about the same time that the salt takes the chassis. (maybe?) Before that - I had an old '82 6.2 diesel, and yeah - I put a hole in the side of that block, but let's not count those production qty test mules eh? Also - did pump the fuel tank full of prox 3 gallons of water once when I was on my way to go sledding. Dropped tank and changed fuel filter and all was fine. The Fords that filled up that day all lost 8 injectors each! I think the bigger Internationals (skewl busses) just needed drained and filter too?) So - I would not buy a new one likely. The big Hemi seems to doo pretty good balance, but it's certainly not for maint costs, but the upcharge. It takes a LOT of miles to pay that upcharge back, and it's about the life of the truck at this point. .

You wunna tell the story about that aggin? I know that we discussed it a few years ago, but looking at the pic, and the description, I'm still not figgering it out again. Maybe you was just testing the motor? Because it aint even in the right chassis. Maybe that's just part of the stealth program? Put it in a dead chassis and no-one would suspect? .

Weight may be a bigger difference in a start/stop and lower speed route application, but if you are long haul and faster speed, aerodynamics will trump weight for sure. Those V nose trailers cut through the air so much better than the old skewl 4 place blunt nosed trailers! I towed a chums narrow/V-nose 3 place (prolly a 60* included angle) about 3500 miles out west many years ago and hardly knew it was back there. (behind a 1 ton dually Cummins) Planning to hook onto his newer one in another week or so and try it again. If my gooseneck is empty (6000#) or even loaded with steel bundles (say another 12K?) it doesn't make much difference once it's rolling, but you put a big flat thing up there to catch wind, and all you can hear is the pipe the whole trip and kan't pass a fuel pump!

"Building Ice!"

I doubt that it is even real. More likely just a computor generated pic. I don't see those skis ever getting much further than the trailer. Also - it appears to just be a single seater.

Apparently they are talking about them opening for THIS season? But when the new buyers bought Halfway, they were "too late" in the year to open the D from Searchmont to Wawa. Likely doo to maps being already approved and whatnot is my guess? But the short stretch from Marathon down the hydro is OK I guess? Is there any reason they couldn't "Wilderness Trail" the stretch to Hornepayne by signing it, and clearing it, but not grooming it? (yet) Like the Wakamatta route to Aubrey mentioned the other day? Half the way to Hornepayne could be ridden on the plowed road if need be.... Or - the trail runs within eyesight of it anyhow.... (or used to anyhow - they could have moved it in the last umpteen years for all I know)