Mountain Riding

[sledneck]

Does anyone live in the mountains. I live in Colorado we had a bad snow year where I am but theres still enough to get really stuck. Just have to watch for rocks and stumps.

[strangeland2]

snow? whats that? it was in the 50s for a few weeks here.. this has been a horrible winter on the east coast but we might get hit with a noreaster saturday and sunday and they are saying a possible foot of snow but at this point its pretty useless

[sledneck]

that sucks!!! Its been int the high 50s here too but the snow on the mountains hasnt melted yet. Winter this year is weak!

[ewelin]

yeah this winter has got to be the worst winter ever.... there is some riding in some spots but it's not like normal. You have to trailer to the lcoations and do a lot of backwoods riding.

I usually do mostly trail riding now that i'm living in Cambridge, MA. Back when I was still living with my parents a few years back I would hit the woods with friends and go off trails... but that was southern NH so it wasn't much powder... just deep snow. Most of the time. Had an 03 Gade that handle that stuff awsome. Now i'm on a short track as most of my riding is trail riding with my father in law. And I almost never get to break trail due to the fact that by the time I get up to the trails.. they've already been groomed. LOL.

[sledneck]

I dono if I could handle trailriding all the time. I think I'd go insane, some trail riding is fun but if I coulden't get off and choose some of my own lines....I would cry.

[ewelin]

well the trails in Rangeley ME are pretty extensive... I'd say i've only covered about 1/3 of the local area... So since most of it is still pretty new to me I enjoy it. Once I start knowing the trails by heart I may find myself looking for those remote locations where I can try and carve some. Not sure if my father in law would be up to that on his T660 Tubro Touring LOL

[sledneck]

o heck ya get that turbo in some pow see what itll do...probly sink but thats ok its all fun still

[ewelin]

fun... i don't feel like trying to dig that thing out... I'd just leave it there as a sacrifice to the snow gods LOL.... lmao.

[strangeland2]

ouch you guys are killing me here ... easy on my little 4stroker :lol: i ve actually had it in a couple feet of fresh snow and the thing went really good alot better than we expected actually ... the few times i have had it stuck i cleared the snow out from under the running boards backed up a little and then give it hell and it pulls out of the hole almost everytime ...

however i did get sucked off the trail and caught on the side of the embankment and it almost took a small tow truck to get it back on trail :lol: not really but some guy going in the opposite direction did stop and help us (me and my father) get it out of the ditch

touring sleds in general dont do all that well just cause of the crappy riding position its hard to move around when you have that stupid seat back holding you in

[ewelin]

my father in law wanted the tour cause he wanted to get his wife out on the trails occasionally and check things out. He was also dead set on a 4-stroke and he got the best deal on the T660 Torbo so that's what he went with. Part of me thinks it was brand loyalty as well. I tried talking into a ski-doo cause they've got the 1+1 which is great if you're only going to take a 2nd here and there.

[sledneck]

nice I like to see the beasts get some powder time somtimes thats always fun. Were suposed to get a storm at the end of the week...hopfully. That storm that hit NY looked fun. Go sleding around in time square! that would be awsome

[ewelin]

or around boston.. lmao. We got about 18-20" from that storm as well. Too bad it didn't go further north though. they could have really used it.