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It's not hard to believe that membership and tag sales are nill in TB as that town has all but outlawed snowmachines anywhere near town for ... well, at least 20+ years that I know of. Anyone that rides up there likely has a long track and prefers the trails not open anyhow. It boggles my mind to think that the North Shore doesn't have hardly any skidoo's anywhere, but even back in the heyday (before 2008) they didn't lay down tracks hardly at all. D along the lake gets little to no attention, and I understand that the little towns along there can't handle all that themselves as there is a lot of klicks between Terrace Bay and Nippigon - in some wonderfull (read rugged) terrain, but with some help from TB they could doo it. So then run up on A from Nippigon east, with a skiff of fresh on Friday night - and not even one track coming from the west by Sat night. If they want sledding up there, they need to start with the local policy makers and get them a way to git in and out of town via snowmachine. If they were a sled freindly town, I would think that they would get the same US traffic that The Soo and/or Wawa gits. .

I was expecting that to be Frater - especially with the windmills, but I'm pretty sure - not - from the part in the vid of you pulling out onto the hwy. (should be a hwy dept there) From the direction of the camera I couldn't see if there was a bridge on the south side when you pulled out onto the hwy, but the R/R crossing didn't look like it was back Mile 38 (McDonald Creek?) either. BTW - I noticed that they put up a new bridge there (Chippewa) recently too. Was you all the way up to Mile 67? It's a long way back the R/R from there I think? Ruled out 38, but I found the road, and I think it's 67, but not labeled. Long time since I've been up that road.

I don't even know anything about "tracking" as an option, but mine did come Purolator (actually - I think UPS delivered it, but it says Purolator on the envelope) not more than a week, and accrost the 49th. Same day as the e-mail telling me that it had been shipped. Personally it seems like a waste to me. Why pay anything more than Canada post to deliver something that is not time sensitive? I understand that you guys seem to think that it's a major deal that it's on your sled 2 months before your first ride, but in the name of the biggest % of the Loonies going to the trails, why would any of us expect anything quicker than 1st class mail? Actually - I think they charged me $10 each for delivery accrost that 49th, when they were both in the same package. Oh well, Hopefully I git both magazines.... ???

Running a new batch in the comming weeks and have been getting pinged for units the last cpl of weeks already.

OK, so just for arguements sake I just went back to the OFSC site and tried to order my permits again. It only lets you git to the page showing your registered vee-hickles. (in my best Rizzo voice) Unless you add another sled, you cannot go any further, but it shows you right there the number on your registration and the ser # of the sled it goes to. Print the page and scurry on to whiteness. Good grief - live on the edge a little eh?

I've bought passes for most of the last 25 years. I'm familiar, but not concerned.

I just don't git why y'all are so concerned over your delivery times? Are you expecting to be riding by now? If I decided to go ride this weekend up at The Soo in that new snow, and if my permits hadn't gotten here yet - I really wouldn't be none too concerned. Trails aint groomed - so no permit needed.... Anywhere that's gunna be froze and have some snow is likely going to be north and crown land (Railroad maybe) so ... at that point your just packing it down for the groomer at no fee. And if I did git stopped (highly unlikely, but has happened) I could just tell the person that I ordered them but hadn't showed up yet. (The Soo is one of my pledged clubs) I could prolly have printed out a page on the putor that showed paid if I was so concerned. Actually - I bet you could even log back in to buy more and see that your tags are already bought - and print that out? However - I seemed to have ordered mine near the last minute and gotten them long before many of you. Prolly my good looks I'd imagine... Sorry for your luck...

My chum had some of those "pull to cinch" type straps - kind of the flat version of these. They work fine for ATV's or whatnot, but a little ice build-up and you doo not get a good catch. I will stick with actual ratchets in the winter for sure!

Well, for coldest temp AND snow - I saw -10*F on the Monarch Ski Hill site this morning, along with 23" of snow on the ground. This is in central Colorado and it was THAT cold there this morning! ... and headed this way.... We ride very close to there: https://www.skimonarch.com/ .

Just set it there for the photo opp maybe? It doesn't look PhotoChopped eh? Or - maybe that club has many long runs on roads only? It would seem more logical to just build box back there and run a heater rad back there and call it good?

Does this count? Not sleds, but yes for snow.... Loading up near Halfway when we got a foot between 8: and noon: Overheated doo to plugged rads. I know it was first half of November (near end of moose season) and the pic is hard to make out, but it looks like 11/_7/05 ???

He was here a cpl days ago - over in the Heavy Boot thread.

Doo you folks not teach this in Health class in skewl? I understand that that doesn't make us EMT's, but wrapping a bleeder in a greasy rag and keeping pressure on it a while covers most. Pull the belt off yuhr britches and use that if too bad for that, but make sure to ease up occassionally to get some blood to the extremity. If you blow a femur, well, it's up to you - but be carefull as you could slice up a major artery if you bounce it around too much. (if the accident didn't doo that already, and if it did, you will likely be much better served getting out on your own NOW as opposed to waiting for a chopper in a cpl hours) If your chum riding point stuffed it in the bush when some clown on a big fast Cat came wide around the corner - and hit a 24" Maple head on at 50 klicks (whatever) and hasn't so mach as twitched since, I doubt your gunna help much anyhow.... I'd like to think that most of us here are not paper pushers, and have much experience with ouchies.

OK, so I haf'ta ask: Why would a groomer opp need to know First Aid any more than any other person on Earth? Or a sledder for that matter? (as mentioned just above)

Our first ride of '02/'03, as you can see on 12/15 Outside of Hornepayne. First [only] tracks accrost a few lakes (slushy) and I think we got turned around in a swampy section at the bottom of a long hill that we would have loved to have been able to climb on. Again - here applies the heavy rubber boots! Snow was heavy. [may as well attach the pic eh?]

Actually, that appears to be a bit heavier than my Sorels # 6.6# So - that's good. Their built solid!

Thanks. They don't seem to be targeting quite the snow and ice market. More the everyday working environment. But thanks for the heads up! Blake: That means that you retired @ 53? What's up with you Canuks? An old sledding chum just retired from the Tar Sands, and I guess him at 50. Maybe I need to move N of 49? My dad bought me that 1975 TC175 new in early 1976 when I was 9. (I think he wanted his sled back) I think the chassis is likely a little smaller than the Colt, but not sure. It was a GREAT sled for kids. Finally Cat has the 200 out these days that comes close to this sled, but the 175 would roll 45mph, and the new 200's won't come close to that as I understand. I couldn't keep up with the liquids at the time out in the fields, but once in the woods - you couldn't shake me at all! .

I take it that you retired in '13? I'm wonderin' if that Colt 175 in your sig is the same as the TC175 in mine? (Town and Country) Shirley you didn't ride that?

Doo the liners pull out of them?

Yours are not the ones in the link above then? (Titan)

Well, there's no spec's on the website - other than -100* Same as the Sorels are rated for. You can git cool in them at -40* if you're out long enough.... Can you weigh a pair of them and check overall height for me? (no hurry, I'm not expecting to buy a pair today)

Cloud cover in The Great Lakes? Really stepping out on a limb there.....

Actually - another option is always to just use a pair of pull-over LaCross chore boots over some otherwise warm boots. If I'm outside in the snow around home, I wear a pair of chore boots over a reg pair of old Red Wings and I am always fine. So building on that principal is an option as well, and those are just over 14" tall too. Only catch is that they don't keep the bottom of your feet off the snow like the Sorel's doo. The Sorels keep your hoof a full inch off the ice I think with a few layers below.

I found a sales ad that states that they are 11.5" tall, so 2.5" shorter than mine. They may be a go-to if nothing else comes up, but I'd rather go taller than shorter.