Bad Snow, Great Ride.

We spent an entire weekend at the cabin (that doesn't

happen very often) and it was the best. JS wanted to

leave before noon on Friday, but last minute had him

going to Sacramento. I had everything loaded and

the trailer hooked up. After JS got home, we drove

the hour and a half to the staging area, then unload

and rode into the cabin, it was almost midnight when

we got there. Sleeping in, made up for it.

Saturday we had planned to go for a long ride and asked

out friends if they would like to go along. First we

headed out by the dam to see the water falls, we were

there for awhile taking pictures. There is only

3 to 4 feet of hard packed snow and the trail to the

falls was all ice. Not real fun to ride on and with

out the soft snow for the tracks to throw up on the

machine they over heat.

We rode to the top of the ridge, were the sun would be

shining and the snow would be softer and better riding.

It was a little hazy but you could still see a long ways.

While the guys were shooting the breezes, I took some

shots of how beautiful it was.

Off to the next ridge, were their had been an old burn.

I had never ridden their before, it was really open and

made for good riding. We played around for about

an hour and then started back to the cabin for lunch.

I had Corn beef, potatoes and carrots in the Crock Pot.

The ride back was a challenge, instead of taking the

trail back we headed cross country. Starting out was

fine, the snow was good ,you could go anywhere and

there was plenty of space between the trees. As we got

higher up the mountain the trees got closer together,

witch made the tree wells closer together.

( Tree wells are deep holes that eat snowmobiles.)

The descend down was a lot slower and a lot more

difficult. Normally this time of year their is about

6 or 7 feet of snow, that's fluffy and fun.

Now hard and frozen, the trail in places only the with

of your machine with long drop offs and the snow melted

down to the rocks. JS and our two friends were ahead of

me, that helped a lot. I was still having to use

every riding skill I knew and all the time was thinking

" I sure hope someone knows were we're going"

A shot time later we drop off a bank and were on the

road to the cabin. Hot lunch and some Advil, it

turned out to be a great ride.