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What they are doing at times is leaving the sleds behind to break a stretch of trail and then going back and picking them up. Guess it's still better than trying to drag a sled along on the first pass.

If you've been following their journey, you've seen this photo which gives one an idea of some of the conditions they are encountering. But reading their account of the trip though, they're taking everything in stride and you can tell they been through this before. It looks like they are doing...

Another diversion of the best kind. An old riding buddy from the Cities made a trip north to visit his parents in the area so we were able to put in a day on the sleds. As I’m sure I’ve said multiple times before, after at least two years of almost no riding of any kind, it sure feels good to...

That is one pathetic look. The "experts" say they don't have a sense of time. Maybe that's mostly true with regard to the passage of time but I do believe they have some kind of internal clock where they associate a time with a particular event. Our Pomeranian will start bugging my wife to...

Yeah, thought I was done riding....guess not, we got pounded in northern MN last night.

I would love to make a trip like this, it’s like a backpacking trip on steroids. I know for a fact though, at 74, I wouldn’t even begin to have the stamina and strength to average a couple of hundred miles a day over every flavor of terrain and conditions for three weeks straight. Which is why I...

As long as you bring home fish all is forgiven. A couple of quick hits here. It was nice to work on a few things and not have my hands dripping with fiberglass resin. It was like Chevy Chase in the Christmas Vacation tree sap scene every time I touched something. Starting to test-fit some...

Thanks guys, I keep plugging along. Between work, sledding, and .fishing trips, it looks like the project progress might take a bit of a hit in March but I'll still be trying to squeeze in some project activity. One way or another, it has to get done this spring. Yes Gary, that would be a...

No shop time today. A friend and I busted out the vintage rides for a little spring exercise. Fantastic day for a ride – 40 degrees, sunny, and a lot of pool-table smooth trail. The igloo bar on Lake of the Woods (literally on the lake ice) was a mandatory stop. From there we did a nice little...

These things do not come off easy so I guess it was standard procedure. You have to wonder how long the sled was ridden after they quit registering it, if at all. Yeah, being this far out in the sticks has some disadvantages. You’re a unique breed if you enjoy working with fiberglass. You’d be...

I guess you have to start somewhere so I decided to start with light work on the hood, fixing some of the spider webbing that covers a good percentage of the hoof. Seems like some coarse sanding, followed by polyester filler and a couple of coats of high solids primer is doing the trick. I...

My memory is not too sharp but I swear there was a guy up in Alaska that had 5 or 10 of these for sale that had zero miles. Seems like the sleds had some kind of muffler problem so most of them didn’t have the mufflers installed. Guess they never had a chance to correct the issue before they...

Great photos! Pretty amazing snow conditions and weather you had out there.

Back in the sub-zero temperature world outside so it seemed like a good night to work in the shop. Got the rest of the chassis finished up and sprayed the first coat of primer, which is good, I'm ready to move on from this phase of the project. Next major task will be the hood and I’ve...

I really had to laugh at this. At my pre-retirement job we often used the expression: “Polishing the Cannonball”, which is something I have to constantly resist doing on a project. I’m a little prone to trying to make things better than they have to be. A trailer queen it won’t be though...

This is very cool! A guy that stored a snowmobile for me built and raced two trackers. Those things are insane. He fired one up for me that had a 600 liquid for power. What a beast, no way would I make a lap on one of those.

Thanks Guys! I had to buy a bigger hammer and dolly set for this job. Even then, the layout of the cross member required the use of a dent puller and when all else failed, the old crowbar and metal screws usually did the trick. After the metal bending is finished and the screw holes brazed...

Not a very exciting update but figured I better post some sign of activity so people won’t think I’m as much of a slacker as is already suspected around the home front. Put the first thin coat of what I call a “sanity check” primer on the bottom side of the chassis today. This should reveal any...

I’m betting that there are a fair number of people have photos and maybe even some video of their vintage riding days squirreled away in albums, boxes, or drawers but it’s just not as easy to share this stuff as it is with today’s digital media so it seems like a lot of it doesn't get posted...

Oh yes, I remember. But in general, is there anything better than bar pizza? I think not.