have you guys(gals)ever hit anything while riding powder?ive been pretty lucky with the amount of off trail riding i do to only hit 2 things,i caught a guide wire climbing a hill ,stopped me dead in my tracks and did a flip over the handle bars,broke bumper,and hood,the 2nd was when i ran into REGOR on a trip to moosenee,there was so much powder floating in the air i didnt see him till the last second and hit him from behind ,it was good he had a 5 gallon can on the back as it absorbed most of the impact,but unfortunately it bent his tunnel,again i went for a good trip over the bars,but at least no one was hurt :cussing: :thumbsup:

Not that theres alot of powder in VT... But ol' PowderBoy here managed to hit a model T ford in a field. That thing was buried under a nice 5 foot snow drift. I never saw it coming... and neither did the ZRT. The biggest problem was getting that thing out afterwards. I got a quick lesson on how i shouldnt take my old triple out Powderiding. Hence Ever sinced old pops and friends have called me PowderBoy...

I can't wait to be out in the powder. It's going to be such a great winter. I'm definetly buying a new '03 renagade with rer. trying to find the best deal now.
caleb

well i will know in feb. what it will be like i am going on a 2 week trip to montana/wyoming skiing/snowboarding and hopefully sledding!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT

About 10 years ago riding my '89 Exciter, I was traveling down some railroad tracks that had not been used for awhile with just enough powder over them to make a pretty good trail, I got stuck in one of the rail cross overs and over the handle bars I went, the sled was so stuck it took two of us and a long timber to pry the sled out of the tracks, it bent the skis and struts into a V formation if you can picture that.

That is one of the things I like about Cochrane . It is north of the canadian shield in the hudson bay lowlands so there is alot less rocks up there. Down here the hydro cuts are a rock strewn mess. Last year I only had one crash. We were all blazing through the powder on our way back to Cochrane from Iroqouis Falls. I launched accross a frozen creekbed at about 70kms. Unfortuately the other side was much higher :0: I was stopped dead in an explosion of powder. Thrown from the machine end over end. After checking that nothing was broken on me, I was laughing my head off. Dug out the gade and on we went. The only thing we hit last year on the cuts were a few tree tops :) We have talked about the trip to moosenee. Billy offers a guided tour up there. Definately some serious trail breaking from what I have heard.. They drop fuel from the train for refilling.


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Last edited by permafrost at Sep 28 2002, 04:21 PM

I hit a rock one time on one of my other sleds and broke the ski off it was on my old XLT actually, and last winter i found a little brook which was hiding under a fresh snow drift and i went up and over the handle bars and burried my mxz that was quite the surprise :p

if i was to do moosenee again i would take the power line from cochrane to fraserdale,we had taken the trail up to fraserdale(100 miles)then you ride the power line up to tozers camp,then its another 70 miles on the river to moosenee,we bypassed some major hills in fraserdale,we had left late that morning,supposed to leave at 7am when we got to the hotel(northadventure) couple guys were just getting up and still had to eat breakfast(the rest of us were ticked off)so 2 hours later we got on our way,its 230-250 miles and when we rolled into moosenee it was dark,we were going to hit the hills on the way back but a few machines were not running very good,my clutch was finished i was only pulling 6000 rpm wide open,so i couldnt climb anything(new clutch on warranty),but was a good time and would like to do it again :D

Guys, I saw a guy's post on another site I mentioned this site. He was wondering if it would be possible to 'doo the Moosenee trip w/o a guide?

I did the same thing as Permafrost, also here in Cochrane. The other side was frozen earth though. My choices were to brake and nose dive into it and ultimitaly wreck my sled or power through so as to at least get the ski's over the other side. Hit square in the center of the sled under my feet, straightening the arch of my right foot breaking one major bone. The new reinforced tunnel(thanks to Pantera) held up though, sled was fine.

As for the Moosenee trip, You would have to be DAMNED well informed before you left to do it on your own the first time out. If the tangle of power lines and winter roads don't get you the Abitibi and Moose rivers probrably will. You would also have to arange for someone to bring gas to certain stops along the way, or carry a sleigh. I've done it once and would probrobly arange for an over night stay at Tozers camp so as I could have a full day to negotiate the river the first time. Your best bet is to hook up with a group that is already going and pitch in on the guide. It's well worth the money!

if it is there,I will find it!!!
the worst one was when I was climbing a hill(on my buddy's sled) and lost control near the top and ended up sending me and the sled into and through about 10 to 15 tree's.let's just say that the tree's won and I ended up with a new sled :doh:

but we all walked away with a good laugh and I am getting ready to ride that sled another season.

This is a pic of Crazy B just south of kirkland lake . I had to saw him out of this one. No harm done.just to the tree.

oops heres the picture.

:( Rocks.............lots of darn Rocks.........and out here on the prairies, you really have to watch for farm machinery left out in the fields!!! :cussing: :p

Let`s all pray this year will be tree free, and make sure when your powder busting you bring along that priceless piece of equipment ...... a shovel....you`ll be glad ya did. :sarcasm:

My one friend hit a picnic table in a field at the cottage everyone forgot was
there :doh:

I hit the well pipe in my own back yard... someone must have moved it on me

:withstupid:

A couple of my friends were riding one of my sleds years ago on a tight trail. The guy on the back knew they werent going to make the next corner and bailed, the guy on the front got a tree across the chest. I turned around and came back and found both of them on the trail, the passenger very upset at the driver. The sled was nowhere to be seen so I went searching and found it about 30 feet off the trail, tangled up in an old bed spring.

Does this count, I was doing about mach one when I came up on this gully. It hurt like the dickens and did $3,000 in damage to my sled.


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ouch ,that one looks bad,guess you had a second to think before you hit the bottom :nervous: :nervous: could you drive it out?or was it towed?

Took about 1/2 hour of bending and straightening, then rode it out. It is hard to tell from the picture, that was a long jump. I had plenty of time to think. I was cruising across a snow field with 9 others, of course I had to be in the lead. I was doing about 65 thru the powder when I saw the gully about ten feet in front of me, I couldn't see because the sun was to bright. From my position it looked like I could take a 15 foot jump and land in the bottom, so I hammered the throttle. I new I was in trouble as soon as I went air borne, I went all the way across the gully. I thought I would make it to the little ledge in front and ride on out. The flight was going well until I realized I was coming up short, so I bailed off at the last second. The sled speared the bank and I hit the snow above the sled, I thought everything was going to be alright when I hit, I was conscious and not hurting to bad. The dam sled did an endo and came down on me like a 500 pound sledge hammer, that really hurt. All I could think about was being buried in the snow under the sled (I lost 3 friends that year to avalanches), so I bounced right out to let my friends know I was alright. My shoulder is only now semi healed up, but I am fortunate that I rode away from it.


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OMOTM...that's some nasty stuff...you western guys ARE nuts.... :p

I know what its like to not see where you're going because of the sun. A few years ago I was flying around a meadow and then realized that the flat ground in front of me had a creek in the middle of it. I blasted right into the other side and jammed one ski under the ice. Luckily, the ice was thick and strong enough to hold me, a buddy, and the sled while we jerked my ski out and got off of the ice, even though we were starting to sink. Now I just ride in the high mountains and forget about creeks with water still in them somewhere. :)

:( I hit a few rocks early in the year that just about break your wrists when they tweek your bars , but other than that it usually seems to be burried stumps on the hills that you dont see when your climbing and you are doing about 10 mph but your track is doing about 100mph and you turn that stump into sawdust, of course this is early riding (late oct early nov) that i would come across this

mmmmm stumps, logs, a couple of rocks,
nothing unusal

Rocks, ice shelves, trees, buried trucks and bulldozers, bbq pit and the back of OMOTM's sled...You name it.

stumps,stumps,and more STUMPS!!

Snowing, shield foged up, 6 inches of snow, brand new sled, forrest service road, HIT A CULVERT! Bent the trailing arm, went over the handle bars. Brand new sled with 12 miles on it.

stumps rocks and buried cable signs

Just one fallen buried tree, so far. Only going 5mph so the skis went over and I got hung up with the tree in front of the track. Stopped me dead and threw me against the handlebars.

I was in white out conditions one time leading 2 other guys, thinking I knew where I was, when all of a sudden I was launched into the air. When I came down I was on my hood and about that time I broke through the Ice. I had landed in a dam pond. The water was only 3 feet deep but By the time WE got my sled out in was getting dark and boy was I wet and cold. On the way back to the parking lot( I was being towed) I kind of lost control, I think it was because I was a dam popsicle, and bounced off a tree and ate my handlebars with my nose. Broke my nose and got hypothermia that day. :cussing:

That hurt just reading it