Its back

This is the view out my front door this morning.



Think spring everyone.

Three days of rain and wind in our parts... Floods everywhere

Yeah, I got my boat in the garage and stored right before a few inches hit this last weekend. That's the absolute latest I have gotten it put away. Just in time...

I wish it would snow and freeze everything around here. I am a big duck hunter and the colder the better. My boat is tucked away in a nice cozy insulated garage with light bulb in the engine compartment in case it gets below 15 degrees outside

By the way, Dave, I lived in SD for a few years. I sure don't miss moving all that snow (whether by hand or with a snow blower).

get alot of snow up there in Mini soda?

Ill have some hot chocolate brewing. Its melting fast but they reportedly recieved eleven inches about 10 minutes from here. I would say we must have gotten about eight at my house. Great snow man snow. Very heavy, and very early for it to stick around. Of course we did have the Halloween 18 inch blizzard in the early 90's.

Boy..I sure miss this stuff...

LOL

More coming your way, Predicting 6-8" tomorrow for south of the twin cities.

How far away are you guys again? I kinda wanna ride with you...haha

I put my gopro camera on my hood the other day and shot some vid, it's pretty neat.

Arctic Cat

Steve,

I have a 96 Cougar 550 that I bought 3 years ago because a good friend of mine let me ride his old 440. I got hooked right away and wanted to get by with a cheapy for a couple years to see if I took to it. Some day I'll get a newer one that's a little bigger and faster but this thing is in amazing shape. I bought it for like 700 bucks studded, new seat, low miles from a guy in IA. Here's an ok pic of it.



I ride by my parents place on the Mississippi quite a bit...very close to shore obviously haha. It's right where we ski all summer long so I know the river better than I know anything else. My dad's brother lives up the river and his sister lives a little further up the river so I make the run between all of their houses for quick rides. For all dayers I usually run out to The Coralville Rez which is the lake I met Chris on this summer with the Nautiques. My buddy that introduced me to sledding lives out there and runs Scales Pointe Marina (big Nautique Fans as well) so we have a few fun runs a year out there! They are about 90 miles away from me so it isn't too bad. I also have plenty of ditches around my town to take refuge in.

Yea it's in really good shape. The only place the PO rode was groomed trails up there in Wiscansin with his kids...He claimed it never went over 40mpg lol But...the first year I had it I did blow it up and had to throw a new piston in it. It stopped pumping oil and it heated up when we were flying across the lake at 90. It was an experience for sure. I learned alot about two stroke motors though so that was a plus!

I do have a little single trailer that I picked up this year. It's light and small, but it does the job very well. It's handy being able to pull it around!

skutsch wrote: horkn wrote: Snowmobile season is now here! I'm stoked about that. Plus I have a 6 day weekend to get some good snowmobiling in over new years weekend. Tom where are you planning on riding? I will probably get some time off that first week after new years, always looking for some place new to ride

Steve, my cottage is in Tomahawk, on Lake Mohawksin. I head up as much as I can, and I am really looking forward to doing a lot of riding this year, now that I am gainfully employed again and have vacation days to use again.

If you want to meet up that weekend, or any weekend really I can head up, send me an email at horkn3875 at yahoo.com. Anyone else is welcome to meet up with me too.

The one can't miss weekend to head up in that area is CruiserFest weekend in Minocqua, Feb 11-12 or whatever that Friday and Saturday is. They have free demo rides, tons of people show up, drag racing, food, and beer. It's a good time and I have only missed it once in the 8 years it has been going on. It's a 30 minute ride by sled to Minocqua from my cottage. Trails open up Friday by my cottage, and will be all groomed after this weekend.

My solo ride.


I still have to replace the hyfax on the 2 up, but that shouldn't take me too long.

We get a lot of use out of the venture because the wifey likes to ride along. It's a good thing she likes to ride fast, or she would have to drive her own sled more.