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Just wondering how many of you use GPS ? does it help ,waste of time or money?
QUOTE(samsara @ Dec 19 2004, 12:29 PM)
Just wondering how many of you use GPS ? does it help ,waste of time or money?
I use GPS quite a lot.
It really came in handy on my first trip with my F6 and ran out of gas because the rear smart valve was mounted wrong. I was able to tell that I was only about 2300 feet away from my truck. (As the crow flies) About 3 miles by trail.
yep, it helps
as long as you know how to use the gps...which can be a little tricky at first
but if u know it well....you will never get lost
also...hardwire it to your sled....and bring batteries, just in case
as long as you know how to use the gps...which can be a little tricky at first
but if u know it well....you will never get lost
also...hardwire it to your sled....and bring batteries, just in case
I belive in Angels.
331 mile ride
Got lost good in March 2002 in canada. Just two of us .Desperate for one more ride drove up to La Tuque. Parked at motel 9 jumped on the trail so smooth a start. 1:00 pm .Great snow found our way to Wemotaci havent found on a map yet. gassed up 2 nd time. Still pumped with adreline headed out 7:30 pm to the TWILIGHT ZONE. A detour in trail proceeded to get lost big time.Grooomed trails with local names not on our maps,Occasional logging roads. No sign of powerlines, houses people etc for hours. 11:15pm go by first signs of life (logging operation)since the gas station almost 3 hours later. Continue on hopeful we are near civilization again. Trail system with signs of nothing on maps.Been reading empty for what seems like hours.shuttin of sleds at intersections to save fuel. Looking for lights from highground nothing anywhere we looked. 12:00 am now 7 degrees. out of water and food. Gas guage needle dosent even move when you shake the sled. We find a sign with a towns actualy on the map, with the distances, closest one 250 km. :augen41:
Holy cow are we in trouble. Trails are ice, been overheating riding edge of trail trying to kick up snow. So hard cant see are own tracks. My buddy thinks he remembers how to get back to logging operation. Several intersection and turns he somehow leads us right there. We are going to live.
Some how gas expands to fit our need.
Like alien beings these funky machines are climbing the hillside grabbing these 5" trees with one claw cuts with another at the base and than places the tree on it's back. Lights beaming in crazy motion as this harvester climbs through ruts and over rocks.
Quite bazarr a scene in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night,
I'm rambling.
With a full load, one machine starts back to the logging road. A human being !! climbs down from his alien machine. Dosent speak a word of english and we not more than we (yes) of French. He fires up a generator and this trailer comes to life, a tool and machine shop with bright lights and heat comes on ohhh heat. It was an oasis. He has a cb radio and finds someone awake who also dosent spaek english. Anyway he spares us 5 gallons of gas each we flip him $40 Can. No info at all cant show us where we are on map. 10 minutes of warmth and almost half a tanl of gas. We are energized and back to riding. 2:00 am.
Attempting to go back the way we came. We find ourselves at an intersection 4:00 am with sings again. yeah !. Again nothing that relates to our maps. now 0 degrees on fumes again been up almost 24 hours. freakin cold ,tired hungry thirsty lost,as hell. Some how the sleds keep running 4:15 signs of Day break. I have a calling to ride to the light. A sign and It's on the map yahoo Lac Flamand
houses on the lake signs of civilization again. Not a light on, a smoke stack going or any sign there are people there. Entered on south end of lake rode to north end popped out at gas station on rt, 25 . 5:30 am station opens at 7:00.
A loaded logging truck comes flying up the road seemed to try to blow my buddy of the road keeping his speed for large upcoming hill. Another vehicle is coming are way a pickup. And they stop. :banana:
Holly freaking cow it's the logging machine operator we left almost 4 hours ago. Gives a ride in his warm truck for 90 km back to truck and trailer. Find food drive back to sleds half caring if ther still there. Load up and head home for N.H.
A few winks along the way. quite a day of riding.
The buddy with the gps coudn't come.
I bought and have been using a gps since and love it.
331 mile ride
Got lost good in March 2002 in canada. Just two of us .Desperate for one more ride drove up to La Tuque. Parked at motel 9 jumped on the trail so smooth a start. 1:00 pm .Great snow found our way to Wemotaci havent found on a map yet. gassed up 2 nd time. Still pumped with adreline headed out 7:30 pm to the TWILIGHT ZONE. A detour in trail proceeded to get lost big time.Grooomed trails with local names not on our maps,Occasional logging roads. No sign of powerlines, houses people etc for hours. 11:15pm go by first signs of life (logging operation)since the gas station almost 3 hours later. Continue on hopeful we are near civilization again. Trail system with signs of nothing on maps.Been reading empty for what seems like hours.shuttin of sleds at intersections to save fuel. Looking for lights from highground nothing anywhere we looked. 12:00 am now 7 degrees. out of water and food. Gas guage needle dosent even move when you shake the sled. We find a sign with a towns actualy on the map, with the distances, closest one 250 km. :augen41:
Holy cow are we in trouble. Trails are ice, been overheating riding edge of trail trying to kick up snow. So hard cant see are own tracks. My buddy thinks he remembers how to get back to logging operation. Several intersection and turns he somehow leads us right there. We are going to live.
Some how gas expands to fit our need.
Like alien beings these funky machines are climbing the hillside grabbing these 5" trees with one claw cuts with another at the base and than places the tree on it's back. Lights beaming in crazy motion as this harvester climbs through ruts and over rocks.
Quite bazarr a scene in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night,
I'm rambling.
With a full load, one machine starts back to the logging road. A human being !! climbs down from his alien machine. Dosent speak a word of english and we not more than we (yes) of French. He fires up a generator and this trailer comes to life, a tool and machine shop with bright lights and heat comes on ohhh heat. It was an oasis. He has a cb radio and finds someone awake who also dosent spaek english. Anyway he spares us 5 gallons of gas each we flip him $40 Can. No info at all cant show us where we are on map. 10 minutes of warmth and almost half a tanl of gas. We are energized and back to riding. 2:00 am.
Attempting to go back the way we came. We find ourselves at an intersection 4:00 am with sings again. yeah !. Again nothing that relates to our maps. now 0 degrees on fumes again been up almost 24 hours. freakin cold ,tired hungry thirsty lost,as hell. Some how the sleds keep running 4:15 signs of Day break. I have a calling to ride to the light. A sign and It's on the map yahoo Lac Flamand
houses on the lake signs of civilization again. Not a light on, a smoke stack going or any sign there are people there. Entered on south end of lake rode to north end popped out at gas station on rt, 25 . 5:30 am station opens at 7:00.
A loaded logging truck comes flying up the road seemed to try to blow my buddy of the road keeping his speed for large upcoming hill. Another vehicle is coming are way a pickup. And they stop. :banana:
Holly freaking cow it's the logging machine operator we left almost 4 hours ago. Gives a ride in his warm truck for 90 km back to truck and trailer. Find food drive back to sleds half caring if ther still there. Load up and head home for N.H.
A few winks along the way. quite a day of riding.
The buddy with the gps coudn't come.
I bought and have been using a gps since and love it.
holy shit !!!!!!!!!!!!! what a story i would have been dying to get back i would have freaked!
QUOTE(DR F7 @ Dec 19 2004, 11:37 PM)
holy shit !!!!!!!!!!!!! what a story i would have been dying to get back i would have freaked!
convinced me, inow know what my wife can get for x mas!
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