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    What Kind of A Season Was It For you?

    The sun setting near the end of my last ride of the season The sun rising before my first ride of the season It was a good/very good year. Like almost everywher it started bad. My first real ride was the end of January near International Falls, MN. We started to get snow about the 6th or 7th...
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    New Weatherman

    http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/21078710/2H We have a new weather guy on one of our local stations
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    Whats your desktop picture?

    Took this one at the family lake cabin last year, it was about the deepest snow we had.
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    What I started out riding.

    My dad brought home a Polaris in 65 but we only used it for about 3 days, the first one that stayed all winter was just like this one, a 1966 Viking made in Ashland, WS
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    Black Friday shoppers

    I came home from my wife's sisters place tonight at about 6:30 and we drove by Best Buy. Our temp was 18 degrees, it was snowing, and we had a NW wind at 22, gusting to 37mph. They said the windchill was about 0 degrees and there was 30 to 40 people standing outside in a line waiting for the...
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    First Significant Snows of the Season

    Here are some pictures, we have 2 or 3 inches of wet slop, it is melting, I picked the last of my tomatoes last night, the picture shows them this morning, other pics of boats waiting to get winterized. It is still snowing but lightly, they are saying it could pick up, we need a few more inches...
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    Fall colors this weekend?

    Went to the lake in NW MN Sunday to see the leaves, 85 degrees, lots of leaves had already come down, no turkey but I did get an 8 point buck on the way home
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    small drags

    Our club had one for a few years and it worked very well in town, We pulled it with a few different units over the years and one problem that we had was with a liquid cooled sled (we used a Polaris Widetrak and an Arctic Cat Bearcat, the sled would overheat because we were working it hard and...
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    The Garden Report: Hows Yours?

    Mine is a mixed bag, the cucumbers are great, we are giving lots away, the grape tomatoes were looking great until a storm and they were all laying flat on the ground but they are coming back, just starting to get some ripe ones, I have a few pepper plants looking good, but rabbits got my beans...
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    How would you vote

    On Tuesday the 12th we have our election in North Dakota and there are a couple of initiated measures that are interesting. I already know how I am voting but would like to see what people from other states think. Measure #2 is a vote to abolish all property taxes in the state. Yes is to do away...
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    Late season riding

    Here are a few, first from last Saturday north of Crane Lake, MN 60 degrees, second last April 16th near Grand Forks, ND, third near Revelstoke, BC April 29th, 1993
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    Old Pictures

    I saw one at Hayday's in the late 90's and talked to them some. It is probably the same sled, there can't be to many left in crates. There must be more pictures that can be put up, even ones from the 80's or 90's. Here is one of my mom getting ready to race at the West Yellowstone Roundup in...
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    Old Pictures

    The purple sled is a 1967 long track, it is the first purple Viking made. My dad was president of Viking back then so we ran lots of prototype sleds. Here is a picture at Old Faithful in 1970. We left West Yellowstone in the morning and got back after dark. It seemed like the trail had 3 foot...
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    Old Pictures

    Polaris Mike said in another thread that we should have an old picture thread, I will start it and lets see some of your old pictures, these are from my first time out west in 1967 (11 years old). They were taken in Glacier Nat'l Park before it was illegal to ride there. We still have the purple...
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    pro-ride xtra tall windshield

    We made it out riding last weekend and I had the tall (21") windshield on a 2012 SBA, one other guy had the wide clyde (20") on a Switchback Pro R 2012, and another guy had the extra tall (24") on an 11 SBA, they all looked good, it was -15 on Sunday and mine worked fine, I was a little woried...
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    where did the patches go

    We were out riding in NW MN this weekend and came across these at Big Elbow Lake Store east of Waubun, a few of the clubs are still around but most are long gone
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    where did the patches go

    Here are a few patches on some old suits I have, I am still in the Red River Snowmobile Club, the patch is from the early 70's. I have a few more one piece suits at the lake cabin and they have a lot more patches on the sleeves and back.
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    BRP sues Arctic Cat

    http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/11571/ Saw this on the local news last night
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    Vintage Snowmobile Patch

    My brother is restoring a Herters Husky now. Here are a couple of pictures of when he first got it. It is a 65 or 66, he is not sure.
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    1972 Winnipeg to St Paul video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71qnuFuC_cE I found this on You Tube, it is long but it shows that sleds have come a long way, my brother raced that year and also in 1973. I believe the sleds were limited to 300cc that year. I drove a sled with a special framework that held a cameraman at the...
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