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    Who's Going???

    We were there both days. Bought a set of RMK a -arms for my son, he's tough on them. A new pair of boots for me, a few other things. I agree with the Blackstone griddles, my wife told me we need to get one also. Beer is cheaper on Sundays, only $5 then. You can always buy beer in the swaps...
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    Who's Going???

    We'll be there again. Probably my 30th year in a row and 25-26th with my wife. We'll be getting in Friday afternoon and camping at the Chicken coop with the same group we've camped with for the last 10+ yrs. Don't have anything real big to look for this year, maybe boots and another pair of...
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    Rising fuel costs hinder planned trips?

    Heck no, I've got two kids I no longer am paying tuition for so I've got more free money than ever! Also my wife took a new job that pays more and is fully remote so instead of driving my truck everyday to work I drive her Subaru so instead of 15-17 MPG I get 33-35 MPG now. Thats actually a...
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    Beware of Walmart Prices!

    The one good thing about Wal mart though is delivery. My wife just puts the order in once/week and its all delivered to the house. The real dumb thing is if they don't have a item you ordered for delivery is that it'll usually show up the next day via UPS or Fed Ex. That's gotta be expensive for...
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    Goin-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park (Montana) to not be fully open by July 4 because of heavy snows.

    The latest info is the earliest it will open is 7/13. One of the latest openings ever. We drove it last August and its an amazing drive. Both days weather at Logan Pass kind of sucked and it was cloudy and wet but still the views coming up from the west side were incredible. We also went up to...
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    April Riding MN

    Nice Kevin. I'd thought about going up on May 1st but it was raining that day. Glad to see you got out that late.
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    Rollover I-75 Southbound Gaylord Exit

    I have a 1/2 ton and had my 20 x 8 trailer try to pas me on the freeway one time. End up facing southbound in the northbound lanes of the freeway. Luckily no rollover and no damage to the sleds inside but I do tie down both front and rear bumpers on the sleds. There was some damage to the truck...
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    West Yellowstone trip

    We stayed at the Explorer cabins in town. Ours was a 2 bedroom, kind of expensive but originally my wife was coming with. For a group of 8 though I'd just start looking for Air BnB's or VRBO. We reserved ours in early Nov I believe. One thing that surprised us is we intended to do the tour of...
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    West Yellowstone trip

    A couple of them took some work. Should've brought the chain saw based on the # of trees we cut down for a couple of stucks.
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    West Yellowstone trip

    Yeah, the drive sucks. Its just under 16 hours for me, 1060 miles.
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    West Yellowstone trip

    Just got back from West Yellowstone where I spent a week riding with my son. He's going to college at Montana Tech in Butte so we met for his spring break. While the snow wasn't over the hood deep except for a couple meadows we got into we had a great time. He's a tight trees type of guy while I...
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    How was your riding season ?

    I had a great year. Only got about 1500 miles on but they were quality miles. Snow on the north shore was excellent and the off trail got to be fantastic. Just got back from 6 days in West Yellowstone with my son and we had a great time.
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    The Price of Having Fun

    My company, Altec, produces truck mounted utility equipment so at any given location around the country we may have hundreds of chassis on the ground. The amount of catalytic converters we have to replace is ridiculous. We've just discovered 9 trucks with them missing at my location, its going...
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    The Price of Having Fun

    Also leaving for West Yellowstone for a week on Saturday to meet my son. When we planned this back in Oct we weren't planning on $4/gallon gas. Luckily I'm just throwing my sled in the back of my truck so I'm not pulling the big enclosed trailer.
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    Get well John

    Get well soon John!
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    Dog sled team hit by Snowmobiler in Bayfield WI

    As far as I know there's no time restrictions for them as far as access to that trail. And within 2-5 miles there's 50-100 miles of unplowed forest roads to run on. Again, I have no problem with them using the trails and I enjoy seeing them but I feel that was a bad day to be out on that...
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    Dog sled team hit by Snowmobiler in Bayfield WI

    I'm not defending the snowmobiler in any way here but these dog sledders need to think about when they are on trails. A couple weekends ago we were riding the northshore state trail and it was a mad house with snowmobilers. I'd never seen so many sleds on that trail and then we came across two...
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    The next Generation

    Started our kids at 1 and 2 in a snow coach, then 2 & 3 we got a 120. They also rode in front of us on our sleds for 1000+ miles per year. As they got a bit older they were doing most of the driving while my wife and I just held on. Then we added a Supersport and a XC500 to the fleet as the kids...
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    Any info on Polaris sled shipments?

    I can't explain why he said what he said. False optimism?? Misled by suppliers? Every manufacturer is disappointing customers right now, my industry is no different. Its obviously not just Polaris, every sled manufacturer is having the same issue. I can understand the venting and frustration and...
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    Any info on Polaris sled shipments?

    Its easy to say the manufacturers should have know but being a materials manager for a large manufacturing company I can tell you its dang near impossible. Your suppliers tell you a date for Jan 5th and you ask them on 1/1 if its still on target and they tell you now its 4/5. And there are...
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