PISTON LAKE CRUISER

The Comfort Inn is brand new and is on Hwy 11 just past the Canadian Tire Store. It's only downside is that you can't park your sled outside your door as its a multi storey style building. its a little longer distance from food than some of the other choices. Just Google accomodations in Cochrane Ont. and you will find all the choices with a location map on Tourism Cochrane website.

I just Googled Casey's Kapuskasing, their website came up including a great review from a sledder dated January 7, 2017 So I would say they are OPEN.

This is awesome news for the area sledders. Kudos to everyone involved! As to Stoney's question, it is not unusual to have discussions with landowners prior to getting MOU's signed and planning work done. Sometimes it takes more than one visit or call before the papers get signed. As well, it would be a lot of work wasted to put the cart before the horse so to speak.

Sure did! It was very busy when I left at 6 PM.

From what I could see on a rural drive this afternoon, we are pretty much starting over west of Waterloo. Plowed fields have no snow and there are a lot of bare areas on the trails in grass and crop fields. Low areas and ditches/creeks have lots of water.

Heading north, if you turn right off the main drag just before the railway station and go across the tracks, there is a large parking area on the right hand side where we have left a truck/trailer in past years for a week. Its used in the summer for vehicles with boat trailers. Google street view will show it.

Totally agree with that, maybe add the light gold from last year to the list. It seemed very reflective and hard to make out in my opinion. I was out for a ride today and going through a bush, a guy I hadn't seen for 13 years was trimming small branches on the trailside. He told me he spends a lot of his time in the winter pruning . He told me that he sees more sleds without permits through the week than on the weekend. He thinks the guys with no permits think theres a better chance of not getting caught through the week. Craziest place I've seen permits located on sleds was facing forward on the rear side of the tunnel indent for the front suspension. It was on 2 sleds stopped on the A trail west of the Mattawa cutoff last winter.

I'm confused, which is it "18ish kms off trip" or "it be just be30km shorter then going into town"

There are a few spots at the Rod and Gun on weekends beside the parked camping trailers. In the past the Lions Park in Elmira (right where the trail exits town) has had a large plowed parking lot. I'm not sure if it is being plowed this year or not.

So, some of those who want to ride but not buy a permit (read Aholes)have found a way around this year's black/chrome permit, Just tear an old permit off and you have a silver adhesive/ void with a dark background from the windshield. I saw 3 of them this afternoon in 90 km. 2 were riding in a 4 sled group.

That's the reason why I said to use a Windshield Washer jug. After emptying, we flattened them, put the cap back on and stuff them under the bungee cords that help hold our luggage on until we get to the next gas station and leave them there if no longer required.

Take a windshield washer jug of gas with you and dump it in the tank as soon as you have used more than that amount.

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Well, the ITG says it is 210 km. From Searchmount to Chapleau by trail. If conditions were perfect do you think you could make it?

My place is just at the lower right edge of the pic where the 5-72 trail # sign is underneath the right turn icon. The St. Clements Trail Boss & myself just finished a trail inspection of our trails and opened the remainder of them. That trail inspection ride was also my inaugural ride on the Mach Z that my best friend of 40 years left me after his passing. We had ridden many different sleds well over 50,000 km. together during those years.