I like your dogs, but......

[dickmsp]

Oh you bet that stern look was for you... how dare you ride a climate change inducing environment destroying animal scaring snowmobile on a snowmobile trail!!
She couldn't possibly be mad at herself for completely blocking a snowmobile trail by her and her dumb friends riding 3 abreast at a blind curve...

 

[snobuilder]

Oh you bet that stern look was for you... how dare you ride a climate change inducing environment destroying animal scaring snowmobile on a snowmobile trail!!
She couldn't possibly be mad at herself for completely blocking a snowmobile trail by her and her dumb friends riding 3 abreast at a blind curve...

LOL ...you are probably right....Were you in the group of 4 sleds that was ahead of us?....almost sounds like you were there

 

[dickmsp]

LOL ...you are probably right....Were you in the group of 4 sleds that was ahead of us?....almost sounds like you were there

No, I wasn't there but I've encountered dog sleds, fat tire bikes, cross country skiers and pedestrians.. Also, a friend came around a corner at night and 2 dogsleds were blocking the trail. He hit the brakes, slid sideways and tapped a dogsled. Luckily he didn't hit any dogs. Of course he got yelled at even tho the dogsleds had no lights.
It's a dangerous mix of traffic.

 

[slimcake]

We were taking a break on 132 trail about 10 am on monday jan 9th I think. I couldn't get my phone out fast enough but this guys track went for about 10 miles once we got going again.... Good thing we were stopped....

 

[dickmsp]

We were taking a break on 132 trail about 10 am on monday jan 9th I think. I couldn't get my camera out fast enough


Was the DNR chasing him down to get him off the snowmobile trail or check that he had a trail sticker and proper registration displayed on his dogsled????

 

[elf]

I was running the trail out of Cloquet one time, long stretch of RR grade, and I saw a group on horseback coming towards me. I pulled to the side to let them pass and one of the ladies was waving at me to shut my sled off, which i did not do. When they got along side me she said that proper etiquette is turn off my snowmobile. I said back to her that proper etiquette is not to ride horses down a groomed snowmobile trail and could I please see their trail passes. That pissed her off and as she was about to respond I just drove away.

 

[dickmsp]

I was running the trail out of Cloquet one time, long stretch of RR grade, and I saw a group on horseback coming towards me. I pulled to the side to let them pass and one of the ladies was waving at me to shut my sled off, which i did not do. When they got along side me she said that proper etiquette is turn off my snowmobile. I said back to her that proper etiquette is not to ride horses down a groomed snowmobile trail and could I please see their trail passes. That pissed her off and as she was about to respond I just drove away.

Wow..

 

[ridindirty800]

Well years ago I left my house to go to dinner on the sleds, i lived on a rr grade and we were going 6 miles to dinner. Going down the grade around a sweeping corner i see all brake lights in front of me, I lock mine up it slides sideways and then track catches something that rolled the sled, launched me off down a hill. Luckily i did not hit any trees and was fine, the sled well it was not able to run after being rolled a few times. I get up to chew my buddies *** out as the why they were stopping in the trail when we were all going 60+, and come to find out 3 drunk walkers in all black were clogging up the trail. So like above have mentioned, you never know what you will encounter, I have seen guys hit down trees on trails as well.

 

[dickmsp]

Dang.. just think.. what would you do if you got surprised around a corner.. swerve into the trees and cripple or kill yourself or wipe out a couple of sled dogs.. Time for the DNR to police non snowmobiles on snowmobile trails instead of harassing us for usually no reason.

 

[mebearman]

Sounds like to me that ridindirty800 was driving to fast and didn't have complete control of his sled. Ya the guys walking were bad news but his buddies stopped and didn't wreck.

 

[Ohio Cat]

Sounds like to me that ridindirty800 was driving to fast and didn't have complete control of his sled. Ya the guys walking were bad news but his buddies stopped and didn't wreck.

I'm assuming you've never rolled a snowmobile then or bumped into anything? Technically, his buddies had at least another sled of clearance than the next guy in line... That's at least 10' of extra stopping distance per each sled.

Thankfully no one was hurt either way.

 

[ridindirty800]

"Sounds like to me that ridindirty800 was driving to fast and didn't have complete control of his sled. Ya the guys walking were bad news but his buddies stopped and didn't wreck."


Technically in some opinions i guess , guys in front were all scattered about the trail with no room for me as if we would have stopped in line it would have been a pile up. When the trail was blocked by guys in front of me all i thought to do was lock brake and slide hoping to clear on the side if them, was going good till track caught and rolled the sled. Some would say driving to close to fast, i understand that but when its dark and snow dust I like to see tail light in front me, heard to many stories about guys getting behind trying to catch up and all of a sudden snow dust clears and then crash. Been driving snowmobiles for 22+ years and only been in one accident, hopefully the only one ever lol