Im sure there have been wosre stucks out there, but this is the worst I hae ever seen, and I was envolved with.

The pic was taken from the point shown in the first pic

It took 6 guys 2 hours to get this 97 ZRT600 turned around!

so whats the story behind getting stuck(how and why did the machine get there),would have been nice to have a 144" 2"lug on that at the time :D :D

Man that is bad, I never saw worst than that. I would of hated to been the guy that got that sled stuck,, He owes you guys big time for helping him out there.

I remember this one from last winter.

In the top pic, it is in the middlle of the corner that he blew. He went strait, and almost made it back out. You can see his track in the top pic where he almost cleared the hill, but he was side hilling on a 600lb+ sled, and he is at least 375lbs himself. It was crazy. Gravity took over and he went strait down the hill since it was so steep. Seveal small trees fell victom on the way down.

Here is a pic of me (5'10", 255 lbs) in the middle, and he is the guy on the left. Not Fat. BIG.

Thats a big dude! He shoulda just picked up that sled and carried it up to the top. Im sure Rocketman could do it lol!
Ryan

Did ya remember to bring yer shovel??

This is a mini z, I think the driver went looking for Dad. LOL

This sled is stuck at the bottom of one hill we like to play on. We went and helped, if I remember correct he was riding by himself, not a smart thing to do in the mountains.

One more that is a demonstration of breaking a prime rule in the mountains" Never highmark around a stuck friend". You can just see the head of the sledder who got stuck. Ten minutes later the whole gully they were in came down. There were 25 or 30 witnesses, we were just glad the "Green Horns" were out .

lol its looks like it might be a dirt speck on the lens :D

It sure looks like it is incredible riding there in Alaska! What are the sled rentals like around you guys there? Would be a great weeks vacation!
caleb

Apirl in Revy :doh:

What makes that one bad bonzi is that it looks like you were riding in somebody elses trai? I'd think that would pack down the snow a bit. ???

That my son and he is driving a Phazer, he never will high mark the old man. LOL

especially when dad drives a lightweight modded sled :D :D :devil:

Bonzi get stuck no way,

Luckiest man alive, no beacons, no shovel, no probes, burried under three feet of snow.

Here's his snowmobile.

??? Man, thats darn scary!! makes me kinda glad i am a flatlander!!! :D :p :0:

It's just something you need to be aware of. If the officials tell you the avalanche danger is way high in an area that you're looking at riding in, then don't go there. Not sure about where Bonzi rides, but there is usually quite a bit of avalanche control in Colorado. I'd pay attention to when and where they are going to be working and plan rides accordingly. You can get some awesome scenery in the hills. :thumbsup:

Not as dangerous as an avalanche, and alot funnier....a good flatland stuck...this is user xc 600 on one of his old sleds..

another angle

and another angle.... :D

bad spot rocketman,the snow is always terrible in the cat tails,doesnt pack down stays filled with air,and those darn cat tails stick to EVERYTHING,and make a real mess when one gets inside the cab :angry:

In the interior of Alaska we have no=nada=none avalanche warning system. It is up to the individual to educate themselves, there is an avalanche school. I lost three friends in two years, mostly I believe due to the odd weather we had for last year and the year before. Before, no one in our group wore beacons or probes, a few carried shovels for obvious reasons. We had many near catastropke situations during this period, I am sure some here read about the Avi that killed 6 sledders at one time, that was 4 years ago, I think.
The best equipment you can have is common sense, like in that picture I showed with the guy high marking around his friend, the reason there are no other tracks on that mountain, slides were coming down all around us, we decided to stay off the big stuff that day.
Losing my friends so close together is one of the reasons my signature line always says "RIDE SAFE"

Somewhere in WA

Here's mine.. :p Mountain sleds don't float...LOL.. Do I win?

Smart Alek Alaskan, he said stuck, not lounging in the hot tub. LOL

Originally posted by AKSUMMITX@Oct 9 2002, 12:23 AM
Here's mine.. :p Mountain sleds don't float...LOL.. Do I win?
You get my vote.

Ouch........did everything turn out alright after that one?

:doh:

I would like to ask you guys in Alaska a couple of questions.

I was up visiting my Aunt and Uncle, and my cousings in June. They live in Eagle River. Anyways, some friends and I might come up late in the winter (march, april) to do some riding. Can you guys suggest where to rent some good powder sleds?

We will stay in Eagle River, and try to commute. Any good places to ride in a decent drive from there.

You guys are really lucky, I have been trying to get the ol' lady to move up there!

That looks like it hurt. Pride if not body.

good pictures guys keep them comming. I like looking at other people's misfortunes as long as no one gets hurt in the process.

:withstupid:

A couple of those stuck jobs i would have just lit it on fire and
called the insurance company :p ;)

Big Bay, Michigan

OK, this is my personal most painful, still hurts year and a half later.


RIDE SAFE

FYI I have added all of these pics to the SW user pics site. I will add any others that you all have to add there as well if you want. It's something we can all come back to in the summer time and droooool over. :p

Your the man Phazerhater!!!!!! :D
Caleb

UPrider - I know what you are talking about in Big Bay. Our big group has stayed right in Big Bay right across the steeet from the Moose Store. It is great riding up there (got to love that 2 way highway they have!) but the snow can get ya! It can get deep quick!

Yep, its basically my back yard for snowmobiling.. I do alot of off trail riding up there. Lots more powder than most of the rest of the UP, with the exception of the keewenaw and Munising-Grand Marais areas. As for the trail, you cant beat a two lane divided highway, it is one of my favorite stretches of trail in the UP.

hey UPrider, I know exactly what that feels like being stuck in dat two track road/creek. Last year my buddy and I thought we would go out one day and check out those two tracks around Mount Arvon. It was warm that day so we didn't start riding till about 4 in the afternoon and only planned to be out for about two hours. So we get going down one of these tings and next thing I know something is tugging at my back end. The last time I felt that was on my 74 yamaha crossing open slushy water. So my buddy stops just ahead of me cuz he is alittle sideways on the trail. I had to pull up beside him to make sure I wasn't in any water. I think we were on top of a beaver dam cuz when I stepped off of my sled I went up to my waist in snow and branches my buddy stepped ahead of his sled to get around it and a tree and... splush, down he goes to his waist only he is in water. If he would have gone 5 feet further with his sled and I would have had a camera I would have gotten some good pictures of his brand new viper/submarine. He wanted to keep going further but I convinced him that the odds were against us; running out of daylight,no rope,no shovel,no gps. With a little coaxing we got them turned around and headed to the cabin to have dinner and a laugh. He came real close to smacking a deer on the way back. That was the most exciting part of the whole week. :D Is that your xlt?

It WAS my XLT, somewhere on here I have posted a pic of my XLT after it lost by Knockout in the first round to a 6 ton redpine. I think it is in the General Snowmo forum, "Show us winter pics"... Now I have a Edge X 600, And I took the motor from my crashed up XLT and put it into a XLT chassis that I bought on ebay for the wife. :D I know all about the two tracks with water in them... you cant see it, but I am standing in about 4" of water in that picture.

Hey UPrider it'll take me a couple days to find the pics but you show me your tree and I'll show you mine :p

DEAL, I got lots of good ones of that accident. First ride I ever took the digital camera with. I'll have to post them at the end of the weekend, as once I get out of work tomorrow morning, I will be in the woods all weekend chasing Whitetails. Put them in general Chit chat.

What about us who does'nt get stuck, can we post an own topic?
LOL :D Just kidding!

cool UPrider, I'll be waiting. Good luck with the hunt! SWRules

Uprider, I know the feeling of Big Bay all to well. We were there 6 years ago and they got dumped on with 30" of new snow in 24 hours!
Next morning the trails were totally gone! Only place you could tell where the trail was,was in heavy wooded area, the sleds had a real tough time because it was pure powder only thing showing was the windshield, the guys with Polaris's could'nt even run at all with that much powder!

When we come up we stay at a house that sleeps like 20 people, the folks that own the little motel south of town also own the house. We normally shut the the Lumberjack down every night and are back on the trail by 11:00 am. There is deffinataly some beautiful un-charted area between there and Baraga. I have rode all over the U.P. and IMO Big Bay area is the most un-spoiled country to be had in Michigan............

Here is a pic of stu guy. We were in Cochrane , it was on a side road near the airport. He blasted over the bank without looking first and ended up 12'plus down in a muddy spring creek bed. Restarted it and the pull cord broke :cussing: had to leave it sideways in the water running till we could get it out :What a nightmare, lol

permafrost...looks like it was getting dark?tough spot to get stuck especially being nose first :(

.......lmao........ :p :p ;) :devil:

You guys wanna see stuck?? Those are some bad ones, but when me and hbomb had to ride the ULTRA everyday back 3 seasons ago, we got stuck every 2 mins, that thing was a HOG, and w/ both of us on it, that thing was 1000+lbs. pain in the ### getting that thing unstuck.

lol a stock ultra was real bad in the snow,even worse with 2 people,my buddy had a 97 yamaha sx,was a great reliable sled but in stock form was terrible in snow,too bad cause it was a sweet riding sled :p

Here the pic of my instant dismount crash. Flung me like a rag doll into 6'+ of powder. This is after we got it half dug out . Gotta be careful when jumping creek beds at 70kmh. Sometimes the bank is way higher on the other side :0: :hallo2: You can see Red rocket 800 in the background up to his armpits.

Heres a pic of my buddy Brian. We got about 2 feet of powder the day before and in the super flat light we couldnt see that we had no chance of making it up that drift. It was easily 20 feet deep under him as thes a 30 drop off there and all the snow from a field ends up there. I had to ride home and get a shovel and it still took almost an hour to get him out.
Ryan

here's my buddy with his v-max. Our first trip to the kewennaw and his
first lesson with deep snow manuverability. :(

Same sled,same day. lesson two. There were more of the same sled that day but I felt bad for documenting so much, after that I stayed closer so I could help dig and pull and push.

:doh:

This is what happens when you himark on hard pack snow

You might go upside down.

Then it take 1/2 hour for friends to come up ,an hour to dig big hole.
Only the mountain bar is holding the sled from going down.
Also there was no damage to the sled.

Ready to go down.

what was the tow strap tied too?and nice pics you must have a good camera

Bonzi is that a sled buried under there? What happened?

Ultrasaurus nice pics, If you dont mind me asking where is that spot. I was out in Calgary last Aug, and drove out to Banff for the day, wicked scenery during the entire drive, and still snow on the peaks :)

Good tiedown job on the spare gas can on the Ultra. :D :p

Those are great pics there ultrasauraus.

thanks,


FishHog

Permafrost the pictures are taken south for Blairmore which is in the Crowssnest AB. Panteraone the tow strap is tied to the trailing arm and Articzrt600 the gas can is held on by 2 bungee cores with 4 small s.s angles on the tunnel.

Yea its a creek and the snow is hollowed out from the heat of the water.
Here's a old stick job in bottomless powder

That sucks! :0:

Bonzi,
That is one nasty stuck pic. Hope the guy slowed slowly as a sudden stop like that could hurt lol.
Caleb

LMAO, That is the worst stuck I've seen yet Ironically I wish I was there.The good thing is that he missed the tree. :D

Originally posted by OMOTM@Oct 4 2002, 09:21 PM
One more that is a demonstration of breaking a prime rule in the mountains" Never highmark around a stuck friend". You can just see the head of the sledder who got stuck. Ten minutes later the whole gully they were in came down. There were 25 or 30 witnesses, we were just glad the "Green Horns" were out .
Good advice. Everyone needs to take it to heart.

Once we were all taking turns on a steep face and there were several others watching. Finally a woman takes a little kid for a short little ride on a much less steep slope right by our staging area and they were coming back toward us when the little hill they were on slid right behind them. They were oblivious too it until we started pointing and waving them to hurry up. Nothing serious happened, But:

You just never know . . .

TTT :)

well i cant see the sled i cant tell how badly its stuck??

Originally posted by 800MXZ@Oct 9 2002, 06:51 AM
I would like to ask you guys in Alaska a couple of questions.

I was up visiting my Aunt and Uncle, and my cousings in June. They live in Eagle River. Anyways, some friends and I might come up late in the winter (march, april) to do some riding. Can you guys suggest where to rent some good powder sleds?

We will stay in Eagle River, and try to commute. Any good places to ride in a decent drive from there.

You guys are really lucky, I have been trying to get the ol' lady to move up there!
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I dont know anyone who has used these guys before, but Alaska Snow Safaris in Anchorage are the only ones I know who rent powder sleds (RMK's). Most other places rent trail/touring sleds like skandics and indy trails. If you're serious about renting, find out about transport, since you wont have much riding in Eagle River. I personally like the southern Kenai Peninsula... about a 5 hour drive, but well worth it for the variety of conditions there (mountains, creeks, flatland, lakes, and TONS of boondocking opportunity). You can literally ride for 100 miles and never see the same snow, or another person.

You got something in mind bringing this thread back up perma? Or just wanna see a pot belly pigmy............

Or do you just miss the smell of burnt belts, and laughing at old guys breathen hard and sweating in the winter?

Good2Go - Go back to page one of the thread, the restof the pictures are there.

Mind you guys, we were not in the mountains or anything, this is in Western Ontario. No shovels, as we have never needed em before. Just the big guy there just overshot the corner, and fell in the gully where the annow was 8-10ft deep. Might be average to anyone out west, but that is a 600+lb ZRT600, with a stock 121"x.750 track

Luckily for me I wasn't there when this happened :D My wife pulled off this dandy about 3 years ago. She was riding a borrowed Phazer at the time. One of the guys in the group (who was riding the red RMK you can barely see) took off up a hill, and she thought he was taking a shortcut so she followed him. About 1/2 up she realized she wasn't going to make it, and turned down the hill. She was trying to slow down but couldn't because the track just kept locking up. The sled went into the air above the small tree on the right hand side of this pic. She jumped off right at that small tree, the sled cleared the road/groomed trail, and landed in a hole probably 40 feet below the road, on the left of the pic where you see two people walking down.

Here's where the sled ended up... it took about 5 guys and the before mentioned RMK to get it out of the hole it was in. There was a tree that was forked at the top, about 4 inches around, that the Phazer hit and split right down the middle. We always have to make sure and stop every time we ride past this spot :D

Here's the sled on it's way out. Total damage to sled- slightly tweaked left sway bar. Total damage to wifeys' ego- huge :lmao: These pics really don't do any justice to how steep it was and how far down the sled ended up, but you can get the idea.

Rmkcowboy, nice pics and a good story to go along with them :).

Docrmk, I am starting to get sledding fever a bit now that I am feeling a bit better now. I watched some of my old sled vids and it got the blood boiling or should I say freezing.

i don't have any pics of good stucks but have plenty memories of them, and they all happen in slow motion, you can see it coming, you know its happening, and if you stop now it wont be to bad, but you always go for broke and screw your self. i remeber the very first "bad" stuck i had, i just bought my ultra two days before and i was riding to town to meet up with a friend, and you have to snake your way through town other wise the police wanna chat so in order to get to his house you go two blocks in, get on the rail road tracks service road follow that for 5 or so blocks then the road ends and you ride in the ditch of the tracks then theres a three part hill that goes up at least 60-70 feet to the welcome to dassel sighn on the intersection of hwy 15 and hwy 12 so i climb all the way to the top (no prob for any body its "the way") and i turn to go back down 12 and to his house when i come to the edge of the hill i realize its all drifted over and its about 60-70 straight down and im on top of nothing but snow. so i turn around and start back to get on solid ground, when i see a crack... and as soon as i see this carck i panic and gun it (this crack was a good 15-20ft in front of me) and as i gun it i watch the enitire hill side sorta shoot out the back of my sled and down i go... probly the only guy i know that can get caught in a mini avalanche in centra mn where if we got 6'' its a good day. after i was done falling i get out from under the snow and my sled is no where to be found alls i can hear is the soft thunder of the dg can under the snow three hours later i make it to my now very inpatient freinds house

that's a good one! Minnesota avalance!

somewhere in the up of michigan. he wasn't stuck THAT bad, but its still funny.
- Jason

Today we logged in 50 miles and the snow was great I do not have any pictures of my worst sled stuck but I did get some pictures today of getting stuck....the snow is only about 54 inches deep so it didnt take too much work to get it out.

another one

"only 54 inches" ??? cripe!

Nice!! I had a fellow rider ask why I keep a shovel latched to my clutch cover. An hour or two was all he had to wait to find out why first hand and begged to use it. Is that first photo from Perry Sound, Ontario? Looks like a spot I ride in. Take care dude. :slick: