Snow Trouble

hahaha

 

Just some random pics from a great weekend

 

So were those groomed snowmobile trails you were on? Bet they love you...

 

You were on a groomed snowmobile trail at one point?! If you met the groomer......
Sorry, but we have people do that around here for fun and it can ruin someone’s day on a sled in a hurry. Truck ruts are not fun to hit. Neither is it fun in the groomer meeting you. Guess who has to turn around. I’m bigger and have a blade

 

Put it on defrost. It’ll be just fine

 

Not all groomed snowmobile trails are in the untamed bush. Lots are on gravel roads that are used by property owners for access to their properties. When on a gravel road, its a favor to the snowmobiles but does not change the fact that its a road -- wheeled vehicles have priority over recreational nonsense.

Although I would definitely suggest that for someone who doesn't have a property on that road, its probably best not to trespass on the private road, whether its shared as a snowmobile trail or not.

 

OMG, if I came across you on the sled trail... I would have had a field day with you. We pay big money for access and grooming. Truck ruts can screw up the base for an entire season. So let me guess, you followed your GPS blindly? You are lucky those snowmobilers helped you out instead of burning your truck to the ground.

 

Wrong. Completely wrong. Don't make me school the ever loving shit out of you. I have been involved in snowmobiling in the Northeast for 30 years.

If it's a plowed road and the sled trails share it, it will be marked as such. If it's a groomed trail, no wheeled vehicles period, unless you are the land owner or have direct permission from the land owner because they can do whatever they want on their property.

If it's a multi-access trail, it will also be marked as such.

 

Its attitudes like that that have led me (and a lot of other people as well) to blocking snowmobile access to my property. So if you ever wonder why snowmobile trails are vanishing, YOU are the reason.

 

Holy shit that is beautiful!

 

Made me cry

 

I'm still thinking about that. It was an honest mistake and I feel bad about it.

 

I agree but they did come me help me and they were cool about it .we shared a smoke and we all left on good terms .

 

It was not a private road.

 

Sure looked like a private road. It wasn't city maintained, and it had people's houses (cottage, cabin, whatever) on it.

 

According to my 6 maps, a lack of signage and verbal verification from the people who helped me, it is not a private road. It's 12 miles long and connects 3 peaks with branches off to base .It's a seasonal road but it wasn't closed and is not private .with all that I still understand I shouldn't have been there but I was within my rights to be on it.

 

I used to run through roads like that when I was younger and loved having fun in it but always thought if I get stuck here, they won't find me till spring...lol, very beautiful in the woods, glad you got out..

 

I never understood groomed snow machine trails. In my head, the point of a snow machine is to take you into the backcountry, away from the groomers. They are also pretty damn capable machines, if a rut in the snow is ruining your day, something else was wrong.

 

Nice videos!

 

Lack of signage suggests private road -- signs are put up by governments, and governments only manage PUBLIC roads. Around here, if you want to upload a private road to the government (i.e., if you want to make a private road public), it has to meet a minimum required specification in terms of navigating it with larger vehicles, making it safe to pass (which means that it has to be wide enough for two vehicles to pass each other in opposite directions without slowing down or going half way off the road), and on top of that, you need to pay them tens of thousands of $ per km. MANY private roads are on maps and are not identified as being private (mine is), and to be frank, verbal verification from somebody you just happened to bump into is no verification at all.

But I think that this is starting to go too off track for this thread.