snowbullet
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Sombody hated there yamaha !! thats sad brakes wernt working at the time I bet !! That pic disturbes me A waist of a great sled !!
Who is the record holder on this website for the furthest distance traveled without snow? Yikes?
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lenny
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that sled was dug out and continued on the high mile trip. Dan, tell them about your track on the blue doo, was I a bit conservative on the 20 mile no snow run? come on slap nads, we wanna hear it!
2 years ago I had rented a sled in St. Ignace. It was a bad year for snow. I think it was in February and I had rented the sled a month in advance. Everyone said you have to trailer up to paradise to ride and stay north above the main east and west M road. I think it was 28 or something like that. Anyway, I pick up this rental and the guy says well aren't you going to ride it? I said on what? He said just take off down the railroad grade about 30 miles and you'll start running into snow. I said I don't want to tear your sled up and he says well there rentals and pretty much indestructible. I didn't do it, but if I did I bet I would have the record. I couldn't believe the guy actually encouraged me to do it. He wasn't joking. The railroad grade was nothing but mud and rocks.
xsledder
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This would have been the over Super Bowl weekend in 2005. I should have know the trip was a bust when we spent two hours changing a flat tire on our trial in South Beloit in 46 degree weather. After changing the tire we start north to Hayward again. When we got to Chippewa County it was still 46 degrees, but we were looking forward to a nice night time ride. When we got to Hayward it was still 46 degrees. Now we convinced ourselves that it will be colder at night, so we ate dinner and started for our trip.
Three sleds in our group overheated because there wasn't enough loose snow to blow into the heat exchangers. So we turn around nursing the sleds back to the cabin and convinced ourselves tomorrow would be better.
The next morning we headed out onto the trails. The snow was loose so the sleds that were overheating the night before were running fine, but the temperature was almost 50 degrees. So we decided to cut the trip short. Now, you have to understand that our cabin was on the west side of the Chippewa flowage and we stop for dinner at Deer Path, which is on the east side of the flowage by the dam. When we stopped at Deer Path we noticed that the temperature was hanging around 46 degrees and the flowage was looking slushy. After we finished dinner and a few drinks, it was still 46 degrees and the flowage went from slushy to almost water. But we had no other way to get back to our cabin.
Therefore, we decided to water skip approximately 20 miles from Deer Path to our cabin. After that ride, I got over my fears of open water. There was about two feet of ice underneath the 12 inches of slushy water we round on.
Three sleds in our group overheated because there wasn't enough loose snow to blow into the heat exchangers. So we turn around nursing the sleds back to the cabin and convinced ourselves tomorrow would be better.
The next morning we headed out onto the trails. The snow was loose so the sleds that were overheating the night before were running fine, but the temperature was almost 50 degrees. So we decided to cut the trip short. Now, you have to understand that our cabin was on the west side of the Chippewa flowage and we stop for dinner at Deer Path, which is on the east side of the flowage by the dam. When we stopped at Deer Path we noticed that the temperature was hanging around 46 degrees and the flowage was looking slushy. After we finished dinner and a few drinks, it was still 46 degrees and the flowage went from slushy to almost water. But we had no other way to get back to our cabin.
Therefore, we decided to water skip approximately 20 miles from Deer Path to our cabin. After that ride, I got over my fears of open water. There was about two feet of ice underneath the 12 inches of slushy water we round on.
sleeping_dragon
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In the mid nineties, my dad and I mad a loop from Mercer Up to the porkies and were heading back down toward Watersmeet in late March and ran into a road that had logging traffic on it.It looked like pretty deep mud but we thought"how bad can it be?" Well after driving through about 3 miles of mud that our 800 s barely had enough power to pull us through we came to an intersection where 2 guys were pondering their route. We pulled up looking like we just finished a motorcross race and shut off our sleds.At that point, the one guy looked at the other and simply stated"we're sure as <font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font> not going that way!"
Its one of those late season rides you just never forget.
Its one of those late season rides you just never forget.
First week in Feb. '94 I think. It was warm all week, but we made the trip up to Minocqua for the weekend after a local buisness informed us that the snow was holding up. When we got to the cottage, there was enough snow to ride on, and rode across the Willow Flowage. That was a big mistake, it was 2' of slushy water on top, and it started to rain. We sat at a bar and waited for the rain to stop. It rained hard for 4 hours. The Willow Flowage looked like a lake in the summer time. We had no choice but to return trip around the flowage on nothing but ice and mud. It was about a 30 mile trip, one sled went sideways on a stretch of ice on a road, then hit gravel and flipped on its "shiny side", and rider sliding on his back on the gravel for 40 yards. We finally made it back to the cottage in time for breakfast and loaded up for home. We had some parts to replace, but we had plenty of time to do that, since the trails didn't open any more that year. One of those trips we will never forget, but wish we could.
It was January 11th 2001 we left Burlington IL.at 4:00am 6 of us headed for Tomahawk WISC.well it got warm out that day by time we got to Wausau trails were closed we had to go around at 1 point we road 3 miles straight of black top luckly the road was damp from there to to Tomahawk we road gravel mud etc. got in at 4:30am 485 mile 24 1/2 hours of sledding. Thinking we would all be replacing hyfaxes and carbides to are suprise sleds needed nothing and we road the rest of the season
Great stories! Love this thread.
Well it wasn’t me but a friend of mine and his wife had a crazy one back in 93. They went from the UP to Canada via the ice bridge for a 2 week trip. It’s like a 17 mile trip on the ice. The second week they had a warming spell for 4 days and although they had snow, when they got to the ice crossing there was any ware from 14” to 20” of standing water on the ice. They put er to the bar and hammered away! He said the wind was at about 25 mph and there were plenty of waves to keep ya awake. I saw pictures of what they had to cross and I can say I would have never tried it!
Well it wasn’t me but a friend of mine and his wife had a crazy one back in 93. They went from the UP to Canada via the ice bridge for a 2 week trip. It’s like a 17 mile trip on the ice. The second week they had a warming spell for 4 days and although they had snow, when they got to the ice crossing there was any ware from 14” to 20” of standing water on the ice. They put er to the bar and hammered away! He said the wind was at about 25 mph and there were plenty of waves to keep ya awake. I saw pictures of what they had to cross and I can say I would have never tried it!
I would rather ride water than slush. That stuff is like concrete when you get sucked in.
Back to the topic. I rode from Bruce Crossing to Lando maybe 4/5 years ago with no snow. Just lots red water puddles on the grade.
Headed out of Lando on a Thursday and rode to Calumet. Stayed up there until Sunday. Big mistake. It was approx 55 degrees when I got back to Watersmeet. Stopped in Watersmeet to let the sled cool down and slides melted to the track. Not a very fun ride home.
Back to the topic. I rode from Bruce Crossing to Lando maybe 4/5 years ago with no snow. Just lots red water puddles on the grade.
Headed out of Lando on a Thursday and rode to Calumet. Stayed up there until Sunday. Big mistake. It was approx 55 degrees when I got back to Watersmeet. Stopped in Watersmeet to let the sled cool down and slides melted to the track. Not a very fun ride home.
snow_monkey
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nice sno-pro falcon!
