Looking to see who is going up for this weekend. Havn't heard from anyone in awhile. I'm heading up for a 4 dayer. Not sure if i'm leaving after bowling wednesday night, or leaving early thursday morning. Will be there thursday through sunday morning. Who wants to meet up. I'll be looking to do a mix of lake running, trail riding, and off trail. Hope to see you all up there.

Ryan

No interest in this? Will be plenty of snow............. Should be fun.

as of right now. i am planning on coming up with 2 buddies, however. my one buddy just bought a house. my other buddy already had vacation for last friday and isn't sure if he can get off for next weekend. right now it is 50%-50%. i am going to tomahawk this weekend with the anticipation that it will be my last ride for the year. if things work out for next weekend, great, but i am not holding my breath.

I believe a group of seven will be coming up friday through monday. Are there a decent amount of trails or is it mostly boondocking? I wouldn't mind tryin some off trail but I'm sure some of the people I'll be with would prefer trails. Not trying to butt into your group just stating we'll be up there.

This weekend, or the next? The more the merrier, doesn't matter to me. Unless we get dumped on here at home, i'll be up there. I typically like to change it up when i ride White Pine. I mix it between trail riding, lake running (i have read the lake is rough at the moment) and off trail. My f-7 snopro can hold it's own off trail. It's no mountain machine, so i can't get carried away, but it's good enough if you know what your doing. How do you know Pat?

We'll be up next weekend. I've never met him, he introduced himself in one of the IL threads and talked about his lodge so I figured we'd give a shot.

I will not be coming up next weekend and my buds are not sure if they are either. have fun guys! will let you know if they decide to come. too much going on for me right now. work, buying car parts for the car, home remodel. i need to focus on things other than sledding.

sounds like my buddies are still planning on staying in white pine and riding to copper harbor on saturday. if there is not enough room at pats they said they will stay at the konteka.

cool cool you are all welcome to stay and ride just give me a call and i will save a room for you
just checking who is going to show up?

my buddies are definetly coming (and i may decide last minute to come). pat said there is plenty of room for everyone.

the next question would be.....would any of you IL guys want to make the copper harbor run with us on saturday?

I may decide to do the Copper Harbor run. We'll see. That will be a long day for sure. I know White Pine to Houghton and back is a 250 mile run. Tack on at least another 75 for copper harbor.

last year it was 340 miles i beleive. i think it took us 10 hours. that was with stopping a couple times and also needing to make a rather large loop to get gas, which i wouldnt think we would have to do this year. also, this year, if i go, i have the trip logged on my gps as a route, so it will save some time.

That ride might be alittle out of our league, thats a big run. But we'll see how everyones feeling.

We ride from Wakefield to Copper every couple of weeks. That whole run back and forth is only about 340 miles without going to Highrock. We just throw a few extras in the pockets just in case we decide to stay up at Copper for the night. They have a little liquor store and a couple of decent restaraunts and quite a few motels. It is worth the trip in my view.

if you dont want to make the big run you can stay around white pine with me i have made the trip way too many times to count i will prob just stick around white pine and boonedock
i am just not a long distance ridder
i am made for comfort not speed

I have the truck on jack stands in the garage right now. I've been working like a dog on it after work all this week. I was having major issues with the steering. Replacing all the front end steering components. Currently there is no steering in it at all. All the pieces are laying on the floor. Still got to get the steering box out yet so i can change the pitman arm. Scheduled to get new tires put on and an alignment on Tuesday. Hopefully that plan works; unfortunately, the trailer can't pull itself up north.

Ryan

you are always wrenching on something, LOL!

sounds like i am going as long as work cooperates. hoping to see you up there.

Yeah, it seems that way. I have too much stuff requiring maintenance.......

Speaking of which, i have the rear suspension out of the back up sled, i need to get that together before the trip too.... I think i need another beer.

stop drinkin and start working
if you ever did any preventative maint things wouldnt get so bad
i bet your oil was way older than my apex oil
i can drag that beat up trailer up that weekend if you want but am afraid it may not make it
besides it will give me a chance to hit a few pot holes and make the tires egg shaped
do you even have a spare tire or will you be using mine again and again
if you didnt have to work on your sled so much you could do as matt mass dose and leave it up in white pine
oh yeah i forgot matt rides a yamaha and dosnt have to work on his
for those that dont know fire cat is a buddy and i like him best on his knees but some time on his belly as well

If you don't think that's funny, You can just get the hell out. LOL

Oh boy and we're coming up next weekend to ride with you guys. This should be interesting.

You guys got room for one more? My buddy just backed out on me and I would love to make another trip up on this thursday or friday. Where are you staying?

It's called the Mineral River Lodge. Should have another room available. I was planning on leaving early thursday morning for the drive up. It would put me up there by noon. But looking at the warm weather coming has got me skurd.........

Here's the location: http://mineralriverlodge.com/Home_Page.html

yeah, WTF is with that forecast. our plan is to leave thursday night, but i too am keeping an eye on the weather.

Go up there earlier. We will be at Bingo's in Wakefield if anyone wants to go riding. Today through Friday is the plan.

You plan on going up even with the 34 degree wednesday, and 40 degree thursday? I'm sure boondocking would hold up, but i am slightly worried about the trails holding up. I'm worried about going up and having it turn to shit. I have better things to do that go up there and complain all weekend.

i would think that we would still come up. there has to be a lot of snow and i think that one warm day shouldn't hurt too bad. weather channel has 37 and rain showers on thursday, but back down to 34 and snow on friday?!!??! i would think that anything lost on thursday would be made up thursday night or friday. if anything, i will just stay at my cabin in tomahawk and catch up on some things that need to be fixed their.

One warm day will be fine unless there is a lot of rain. We were up there two weeks ago and there is a lot of snow on the ground.

my thoughts exactly. the weather channel has been a little high on their temps too lately, so we will see.

Give a shout if you see these two sleds. We will be all over the area all week.

James.

Is everyone staying at Pat's? I am trying to get there early friday morning so I can drive in all the shit weather getting there. Where are you guys planning on riding and do you mind me and maybe one other riding with you?

scott

Like i said, the more the merrier. We are all staying at Pat's. I'll be there mid day thursday. Will probably just dink around there thursday, but trail ride on friday. Saturday and Sunday will be a mix of trail and boondocking. Come on up. Friday, i'll be looking to do some running with someone. My place is the first door on the right when you walk in.

Ryan

weather forecast is looking a little bit better!!

is the gas station still open in White Pine?? i heard again that they were closed??

Take a look at the thread I started in the michigan sub forum. Sounds like it will be closed as of the 5th. Not sure if the Konteka will be ready to go by then or not. I'd plan on bringing a couple 5 gallon jugs. Bergland isn't too far away, and that's my favorite trail ride anyways. If the trails are good, takes 20 minutes to get there. Truck is all set to go. Z is back together and ready to go. So i'm all set. Weather doesn't look any better imo, both thursday and friday are going to be warm now. There is no doubt there will be substantial snow loss. I'm going up one way or another. If the trails turn bad, i'll go off trail. Good thing is, the warm days aren't until we get up there, not like it's been warm since monday or anything. I would plan on doing some trail riding on friday for sure. Saturday, not sure. I know plenty of off trail fun spots to tool around on if the trails are marginal. Not going in and out of trees boondocking either, i'm talking wide open areas to hold it too the bar. I'm taking off sunday mid morning.

So no gas station, is there any stores nearby. A couple of us still need mich stickers.

If the Konteka doesn't sell them, you can hit up Bergland for that too. I wouldn't worry much about riding to bergland to get the stickers. I've done it plenty.

That sucks. already have the sleds loaded in the enclosed trailer, DOH!!! will have to take a jug to top off for the big run on saturday. hmmm, that really sucks.

i thought you were getting there thursday night?

They are upping the temps. 36 today, 43 tomorrow, 38 friday...........not good

yeah, we are leaving thursday around 6:00 pm. my buddy loaded the sleds already though. i will just have to bring a couple 6 gallon gas cans to insure that I can have a full tank for the saturday run. haven't checked the weather in a day or two, but that does not sound good. shouldn't be too bad though, one day isn't going to kill the trails i wouldn't think.

i'm more worried about thursday night's overnight low's of 31 degrees. I guess it is what it is.

I'm thinking for friday morning, get going right away in the morning, head down to bergland for the illinois boys to get their stickers, and catch some breakfast.

i cannot remember.....do we need to go through bergland on the way to copper harbor/houghton??

is that the gas station right on the edge of the highlines?? i may be thinking twin lakes. i am just wondering, in case we get back friday from riding and do not have full tanks. i think we should be able to make it from white pine to houghton on a full tank, but they will have to be VERY full tanks, LOL!

bergland is south towards the lake. you will have about 20 miles on the tank if you fill in bergland and come up to white pine. I highly doubt you will get to houghton on one tank. not unless your running on one cylinder........

I thought it was about 120 miles to houghton. can do that on one tank easy.

i don't like pushing it that far personally. I've run out once before with the f-cat. Doesn't do anything any good.

I did 110 last weekend and it only took 9.2 gallons. still had almost 3 gallons in there yet. i agree that running it that close isn't the smartest. not fun to be stranded or hurt the sled. i am pretty sure that we topped off in twin lakes last year. then we stopped somewhere south of copper harbor at some resort place because Matt couldn't make it all the way to copper. on the way back i am pretty sure that we made it all the way to houghton before getting gas. then i think we stopped in ontonagon before heading back to white pine.

will have to check the gps and see exactly how many miles it is and where we stopped last year.

talked to Rich in WP over the lunch hour here. He seems to think there is more than enough snow to handle the warm up. Indeed, the gas station is shut down. And the Konteka is not ready to sell gas. So be prepared..........

warmer than forcasted for today, 40 up there right now............