I’ll be the guy who gets stuck in the parking lot.
Seriously, how steep is the learning curve?

I’m not talking about hitting stuff, I’m sure that’s gonna happen.
I’d like to avoid the shovel as much as possible.
I’m mostly a sea level dweller. lol

There is no avoiding the shovel. Love your shovel, for it is your friend and companion when you are in need. You will spend a lot of time shoveling. Learning curve is steep, snowmobile riding is unintuitive and labor intensive. You will go home best up and exhausted. A background in motorsport or motorcycle riding helps, but off trail sledding is it's own beast. Like dancing with a 500 point woman.

awesome I can’t wait lol


i’ll partake at whatever level I’m capable of. My best friend has always been a forklift though.

Damnit I will be in Maui with my girlfriend!! I would way rather be sledding!! I really appreciate the offer too. I rode this past Saturday over Snoqualmie Pass and there wasn't enough coverage to go off trail. The rain last week killed the snow. After Maui I am going to Caleb Kesterke's on Jan 6th and 7th.

Lets hook up soon, I am down for a Revy trip too if the snow around here and north Idaho isn't good.

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Phil, my girlfriend was at my house 6 years ago when I got home from the first day on a mountain sled. She couldn't believe how haggard I looked and how stoked I was to go again!! It is the most fun you can have being miserable and high on adrenaline in the same day. And the along with the shovel, the saw is also your friend.

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I rode this borrowed 146” for a weekend up at priest with a couple of local guys last February.
Just trails but we did hit some that hadn’t been groomed, a few sections you couldn’t see a trail at all, just deep drifts of powder so I got a tiny glimpse of off trail conditions.
Historically El Niño winters are not big snow years but if the valley gets deep enough I’ll come back up this winter to pick up a used sled and run it in the farm fields on Kendall rd. With some luck maybe I’ll hit the mountains next winter.

At this rate, a few Canada trips are going to be in order. I don't recall ever having such a bad start to the season. Some guys are out there getting a little bit of off trail, but its pretty damn risky at this point, my buddies in the silver valley went riding this last weekend and pretty much everyone managed to get hurt 😂. Schweitzer only has a few runs open still, and that's with making as much snow as they can. Grizzly might be my first good opportunity to ride 😑. Looks like Revy finally hit a ridable level last week.

In boat news, engine headed off to Gibson Performance this week. Did all the top end this summer, so it should just be bottom end stuff and hunting for a little more power. I am up in Sandpoint applying for a dock change permit and making some measurements, figuring out what needs to happen to fit our current boat and future boats best. Need to get into the shop too, poke around in the hull. Lots of redundant unused wiring in there from the different configurations its had over the years, I would like to pair things down before the motor goes back in.

Not so great here either.



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I was gonna ask you if there was any good boating in Florida at least. You doing that New Years Poker run?

Yeah. It’s a straight up lunch run, no stops. Usually winter is real mild around here in between cold fronts which usually come through every week or two.
New Years day can be 80’s and sunny or 50’s with drizzle. Sea fog has been a problem some years. If the wind is up they’ll run the inter coastal instead of the beach.