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Blackstar

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  1. The clubs around here closed trails yesterday. Warm temps and rain. Trying to maintain the base. 👍
  2. Stayed there a couple years ago. Cabins are nice. Owners are friendly. Menu is limited but serves the purpose. Hoping to stay there again this season.
  3. getting closer and now they upped the snow to 25-30 cms. Going to be warm wednesday so likely will be less than that on the ground but it still sounds good.
  4. Now showing up to 20cms of snow so who knows.....
  5. We rode from home yesterday. Up to Alma, over to Conestogo Lake for a packed lunch at the clubhouse (doors open and heat on). Down to St Clements, back up through Elmira and home. Snow is best to the east. Alma seemed the best conditions we rode. Everything was rideable. Some of the plowed fields near St Clements clubhouse are rough yet but it will get better with more groomer passes. Plenty of wind and a bit if fresh snow made for lots of drifts.
  6. Let's hope the weather people are wrong. Currently calling for 3 days above 0 for the middle of next week.
  7. St Clements has opened some of its trails as limited. Please refer to the ITG. Base is very thin in places. Please ride responsibly.
  8. Turbo Doo posted this in the Elk Lake thread.
  9. Wing is back on for Feb 4. And should anyone be thinking of asking, No, I haven't heard of a plan for what we will do if the trails are open. Going to inquire today.
  10. You mean Bridgeport? There is way more than 7.5 cms on the ground, likely 20-25 cms. I rode it yesterday with the wife. The plowed fields are brutal, the grass fields are good , the bush trails are a sticks/snow/dirt mix. It scratched the inch and let her get a short run on the new sled but we won't be going back out until we get another 6 inches. I just don't feel the need to run garbage any more. Ya, I see this both ways. Its great to have some trails open so people can get on them but it brings a ton of traffic to trails with marginal snow coverage. The base and underlying crops get destroyed. But is it fair to the permit buyers to keep rideable trails closed while waiting for the neighbouring clubs to catch up. Its damned if you, damn if you don't. This was Schweitzer st at 4pm today. 2 blocks of trailers. My mother says it’s been trucks and trailers and sleds all weekend. She likes to see the families going out for ride. Leave your cans at home though.
  11. From what I can remember, there was a year or 2 that the Chap Club had a hard time getting any trails open. They took a bunch of flack for it. The club was talking about a collapse. There was a change over in the executive and new people came in. Volunteers started prepping the F to reopen but it had sat idol for 2-3 years by this time and the bush had reclaimed it. They kept saying "yep, its going to reopen" but by January they said "no way to get this done" and its never come back since. I have only ridden from Black Creek to Chap once but all I can remember is a ton of bush, tight and twisty, through swamps with just the odd road section thrown in. A lot of it ran the ditch just off the highway. On that trip we ran from Dunlop Lake Lodge to Chap. Stopping at Black Creek and Flame Lake for fuel. 2 brothers in our group decided not to buy fuel at Flame Lake because it was "expensive" but they never told the rest of us that they had skipped the fuel. They were on 2002ish ZRT 600 Triples. When we hit Chap they dove into the first gas station they saw to fill up. They made but were on fumes. 2 days later they both ran out of fuel 5 miles from Cochrane coming from Hearst, 9 at night, because they skipped fuel at Smooth Rock.....
  12. Still for sale. https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/23914812/2502-518-highway-w-sprucedale
  13. My first thought as well. Would be helpful to stick a couple of signs near the T intersections on the trail on either side of the highway as well. It would be interesting to see how this works out. Most of us probably leave home with idea of where we plan to eat during a ride as they choices are getting more limited.
  14. No plans at all just like every other year. Just plan to ride when I can, where I can. Hope to get to Dunlop Lake Lodge this year as it has been several since our last visit. I've never been to Quebec but its on my bucket list. I hope to retire from my winter business in 2 years then I'll be able to make plans.
  15. Be afraid gentlemen. Very afraid. I've seen the mock ups. Cheetah's ,and Tigers, and Flamingo's, Oh my.........
  16. I talked with TD today but I didn't change it from what I had given them for a value 2 years ago which was $7000. There is no hope in hell I could buy another one for that if I had to. I'm seeing '15 Turbos advertised at $9-11k. Asking and selling are 2 different things. Regardless, if they gave me $6500 (minus my $500 deduct.) I'd be hard pressed to find anything in the used market suitable. I had one stolen 15 years ago. Pay out was good. They gave me more than I thought it was worth. I don't have collision coverage so I've never written one off. 🤪
  17. Just a thought. Every year I always made it a point to call TD in the fall, when my insurance renews, to lower the declared value of my sleds to current market value. With the rising prices of used sleds, my declared value is likely $2000 or more below what I'm seeing on Kijiji. Do I bother to change the value? How is TD coming up with a value on your sleds? It used the be Blue Book but I'm assuming it would be out of touch with what has happened in the market.
  18. yep, we seem to be caught in that cycle again. Cold, snow, warm, rain, cold, snow. repeat. Good day to take down the Christmas lights but she probably won't let me.
  19. In the last 2 years my industry (swimming pools) has seen a 100% increase in cost on all steel products, 75% on plastic and fiberglass products, 50% on Stainless Steel, 20% on manufactured equipment (pumps, filters, heaters), etc. Most people I talk to are seeing the same in other industries. I can't see how the manu's can get by on anything less than 10%. Shipping costs, limited factory output, high demand, etc. I just had this conversation on Saturday. I was planning to order a new sled in 2 years but now I'm thinking of picking up one of these late delivery sleds (if I get the opportunity) just so I have it and I get it for a ton less than I'm going to have to pay in 2 years while used sled prices are still sky high. I can't be the only one thinking this way.
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