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What a great way to end the season. Sunny and 55-60 degrees! Of course, last weekend would have been a great way to end the season also, but, when the snow is still there, and it's April 14th, ya gotta ride it ya know!! A lot of people were up enjoying it also. But in our 87 miles we put on Saturday, we only saw three other sleds while off trail, and that was on the power lines between South Range and Donken. We missed Scottiking and crew, but we did talk to doospunk and crew at the mini mart Saturday night, good seeing you guys. We rode plenty of tracked stuff, and plenty of non tracked stuff. If you know where to go, you could find the untracked stuff. We rode from 10:45 AM until almost 8 PM.
1608 miles on the RMK this year, and I put another 240 on the Renegade for a total of 1848 for the year. Not too bad. The Renegade is an awesome sled, always has been, but for the riding I like to do, the RMK wins hands down. Glad I bought it!
A big thanks to John Dee for providing all of us with his awesome forecasts, and this site! A big thanks to Richard and Sandy of Krupp's Resort for being our home away from home again for another season! Also a big thanks to Deb and Jim Saur (Krupp's mini-mart)and their employees for making us feel at home there also.
Last but not least, a big thanks to my wife! I made 8 trips up there this year, and, as all of us married men know, with out the approval of the wives, winter could be a whole lot shorter! (But, a lot less expensive, holy crap this is an expensive sport!
) I am starting to save for next year starting this week.
OK, enough with the mushy stuff, on with the pictures!
Yep, glad we came up!
15 minutes of riding, and I am stuck. I went left to avoid a stump, and hit another one which launched me toward a tree. YAAHOOOO!
C'mon Kimmer, get up here.
Up and up, where is the top?
Oh yeaaaa, untracked
Dang it, stuck again!
Which way to go on these here untracked logging roads, decisions, decisions, this way...
...or this way.
Dang it! Stuck again!
Tail walk
Road this logging road...
...to the power line.
Pictures do not do justice to how steep this hill is. I circled my brother in red down below, he is about halfway up when he turned out. After he stopped, I yelled down to him and asked if anything was wrong, he response was " you don't really think I am going to follow you up there do ya?" LOL. What a fun climb, can't wait to try it in 3-4 feet of the good stuff.
The view from the top, anybody care to guess what that building is down below?
King of the hill.
My tracks in red from where my brother turned out, I have it on full zoom here.
More untracked stuff, thanks to Dave and Lori Sleeman for not tracking up EVERYTHING! LOL.
Sunscreen?
Found a jump with a natural downhill landing someone else had built.I didn't hit it to fast, the landing area only had about 4-6 iches of snow left on it.
Kim jumping
me jumping
Trail 3 about a mile and a half south of the Mosquito, the good...
the bad...
and the ugly... the ugly pic was taken right as you come in to Twin Lakes by the saw mill, we had jumped on the pole line at Donken, so we didn't ride this part of it.
After gassing up, we headed in another direction to find more untracked snow, left...
... or right?
My bro and I, about 16" of snow left on the logging road.
Watcha looking at punk?
Have saw, will travel.
Water down below, keep the left ski on the log, and you'll be just fine Kimmer.
Sun setting on the sleds
1608 miles on the RMK this year, and I put another 240 on the Renegade for a total of 1848 for the year. Not too bad. The Renegade is an awesome sled, always has been, but for the riding I like to do, the RMK wins hands down. Glad I bought it!
A big thanks to John Dee for providing all of us with his awesome forecasts, and this site! A big thanks to Richard and Sandy of Krupp's Resort for being our home away from home again for another season! Also a big thanks to Deb and Jim Saur (Krupp's mini-mart)and their employees for making us feel at home there also.
Last but not least, a big thanks to my wife! I made 8 trips up there this year, and, as all of us married men know, with out the approval of the wives, winter could be a whole lot shorter! (But, a lot less expensive, holy crap this is an expensive sport!
OK, enough with the mushy stuff, on with the pictures!
Yep, glad we came up!
15 minutes of riding, and I am stuck. I went left to avoid a stump, and hit another one which launched me toward a tree. YAAHOOOO!
C'mon Kimmer, get up here.
Up and up, where is the top?
Oh yeaaaa, untracked
Dang it, stuck again!
Which way to go on these here untracked logging roads, decisions, decisions, this way...
...or this way.
Dang it! Stuck again!
Tail walk
Road this logging road...
...to the power line.
Pictures do not do justice to how steep this hill is. I circled my brother in red down below, he is about halfway up when he turned out. After he stopped, I yelled down to him and asked if anything was wrong, he response was " you don't really think I am going to follow you up there do ya?" LOL. What a fun climb, can't wait to try it in 3-4 feet of the good stuff.
The view from the top, anybody care to guess what that building is down below?
King of the hill.
My tracks in red from where my brother turned out, I have it on full zoom here.
More untracked stuff, thanks to Dave and Lori Sleeman for not tracking up EVERYTHING! LOL.
Sunscreen?
Found a jump with a natural downhill landing someone else had built.I didn't hit it to fast, the landing area only had about 4-6 iches of snow left on it.
Kim jumping
me jumping
Trail 3 about a mile and a half south of the Mosquito, the good...
the bad...
and the ugly... the ugly pic was taken right as you come in to Twin Lakes by the saw mill, we had jumped on the pole line at Donken, so we didn't ride this part of it.
After gassing up, we headed in another direction to find more untracked snow, left...
... or right?
My bro and I, about 16" of snow left on the logging road.
Watcha looking at punk?
Have saw, will travel.
Water down below, keep the left ski on the log, and you'll be just fine Kimmer.
Sun setting on the sleds
