Planned on riding today - one way or another. Mostly to see how the sled performs after my dealer made some EFI adjustments and getting shocks rebuilt and revalved.

It was F#$*ing cold! I got a late start but it was still -5 deg. when I unloaded at 1:00PM.

Plenty of snow on the fire roads and almost enough in the woods. No grooming but 7N from Airport road to the "weenie wagon" lot was flat and fast. Topped out in one spot at 95mph and just ran out of room. Managed to get about 60 miles on in about 1 1/2 hours. Only saw 3-4 other sleds and almost ran into a guy on a Fusion that wasn't paying attention. Good thing I was.

Sled did well and the shocks felt great! Thanks ODS and Looneytune. Great job Bill! :beerchug: The rear suspension never felt so good.

The 05 seat is awesome although it did add a little more inside ski lift on certain corners because of the added height but still a very nice upgrade.

I fear that the warm temps later this week are going to kill the base up there. Definitely going to need a lot more snow ASAP.

thanks for the report. any waterholes.

WAY too cold for water. Lots of frozen "holes" in the woods though. Some big enough to swallow a sled if you're not paying attention.

I love the holes that have just enough of a lip on them to turn 'em into little jumps if you catch 'em right.

If they had about 6" more snow, I'm sure the groomer would be out filling those in but not quite enough snow in the woods right now.

hey, glad you had a good time
we were up there all day fri and we were the ones that broke all those trails
managed to do about 105 miles...

i want to try and get up there this week sometime before what little snow melts

how far north did u get???

That's funny....were the trails open on Friday? I thought today was opening day. Just curious...becuase this is how our trails get closed. State land or not...I am sure you had to use some private land/trails to get there!

dont worry, we were not breaking any laws...i wouldnt do that...just for that reaon..i dont want to get our trails closed


but...the national forest trails opened up the 15th.....no one seemed to know this...we double and tripple checked this out...
with the woddford snowbusters and the forest cops
its even on the vast web site...but you have to look for it..the main page say in bold letters the 20th...so its decsiving

im glad thou...cuz we had the trails all to ourselfs :banana: .......sorry

mxzrevman:

Just out of curiosity, where did you park and ride from?

airport road

DJF7,

:banana: I broke out Route 7s on opening day!

You stopped to see if we needed help. My brothers Ski doo crapped out, I had the
Black polaris.

Opening day was a blast Thanks for stopping to see if we needed help!

I towed his sled 5 miles, Man what a beating that was.

The rain this week will be devistating, I'm not going back untill after new years.

we went up and droped off at woodford last night....the trails from woodford to airport road are pretty beat.. but airport road north are not too bad at all
but today it will be in the 40's and raining....STAY AWAY from unloading at woodford till they get another foot of snow or more

also, my buddy went up to the top of glasunberry mtn. and this is what happened to his sled>>>>



thats the bottom of his chaincase....and yes thats the chain your seeing!!!!
so be carefull up there too

on the brighter side
this is is a pic of my brother on his first ever night ride, and only his 2nd ride ever

Well, I didn't exactly stop but you did give me the OK sign after I slowed down and gave you a thumbs up. Glad you had the situation under control.

I was going to stop and just shoot the shit for a minute but I didn't have much time left to ride.

I really wish there was an easier way to identify a fellow HCSer on the trail.