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[OldViperRider]

Two old guys, Old Thumper and OldViperRider left at 8 AM from OVR's home at 10 below zero.

The trails had been groomed last night to perfection!

Here are a few pictures from our ride.

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Total miles before lunch, 88!

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The "Bowl" is looking good, no tracks yet! Who will be the first?

This was the best riding day of this season so far. It was very cold, so be sure you have plenty of layers just in case.

Mark

[OldViperRider]

By-the-Way, at 5 PM this evening it is -3.3 degrees F and dropping FAST!

Mark

[Rad8165]

OldViperRider, on 17 January 2011 - 05:03 PM, said:

By-the-Way, at 5 PM this evening it is -3.3 degrees F and dropping FAST!

Mark

Mark, whats going on, you can't get thumper off his warmed up seat? Glad to see you guy's having some fun!

[OldViperRider]

Rad8165, on 17 January 2011 - 05:31 PM, said:

Mark, whats going on, you can't get thumper off his warmed up seat? Glad to see you guy's having some fun!

Those were a few times he was sitting down. The rest of the time it was really "Rad"!

Mark

[OldViperRider]

At 7:30 PM it is -10.7 degrees F.

Mark

[Old Thumper]

It was a great day

Good to be back on the trail

Edited by Old Thumper, 17 January 2011 - 09:29 PM.

[Pantera99]

Old Thumper, on 17 January 2011 - 09:27 PM, said:

It was a great day

Good to be back on the trail

The 2nd picture look's like you were inching your way off trail ??? Glad you had a good day ol' chap... It was 3 degrees here early this morning, not much warmer...

[RENAGADE1]

OldViperRider, on 17 January 2011 - 04:51 PM, said:

Two old guys, Old Thumper and OldViperRider left at 8 AM from OVR's home at 10 below zero.

The trails had been groomed last night to perfection!

Here are a few pictures from our ride.

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Total miles before lunch, 88!

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The "Bowl" is looking good, no tracks yet! Who will be the first?

This was the best riding day of this season so far. It was very cold, so be sure you have plenty of layers just in case.

Mark

In that last picture where you look at the "bowl", What trail are you on? Is it 143 looking south towards the junction of 143 and 112? Trying to figure out a way to that bowl this year. I want to check that out.

[Old Thumper]

RENAGADE1, on 18 January 2011 - 04:59 AM, said:

In that last picture where you look at the "bowl", What trail are you on? Is it 143 looking south towards the junction of 143 and 112? Trying to figure out a way to that bowl this year. I want to check that out.

Yes - that is exactly where we were. The clear cut area where you are heading downhill toward the bridge.

[Fishtail]

Old Thump.....thanks for rubbing it in! This was the first thing I looked at here at work this morning. Next time I going too!

[pokker]

and soon the trails will look like that all over the state. Because New Hampshire has the BEST snowmobile trails in the country

[Old Thumper]

So I wrapped up my Pittsburg trip with a great pre-checkout ride this morning. OVR was busy with other buisness, so I went out solo. I left at about 7:30 this morning. For the first 50 miles, not only did I not see another sled, I did not see another Track !!! (except some moose tracks) It was 50 miles of "First Tracks through about 6 inches of fresh powder on top of untouched groomed trail. I took 139 to 5 to 20 to 136 to 112 to 137 to 112 to 143 to 20 to 144 to 5 to 141 to 139 back to the cabin. I did not see a sled track till I got to trail 20 coming off of trail 143. When I stayed straight on 144 it was untouched powder again until I got to 5 going towards East Inlet. (OVR - I must have just missed you and Don at East Inlet Rd. - Saw his footprints at about 9:30) I saw a few sleds going down Perry Stream Rd., but I also saw a Momma moose and her young one just north of the camp with the "Meese Motel" sign on it. What a great ride to cap off an excellent first Pittsburg trip for this season.


After checking out, we stopped off at Happy Corner for a BIG late breakfast/early lunch. Mmmmmmmmmm !!!

It was all down hill from there. Merging onto Rt 93 by Cannon Mtn. got the truck all crossed up on some ice on the on-ramp. Truck went side to side about 3 times. Trailer kept whipping back and forth a few more times but we drove through it. Then upon arriving home we were greated with about 4 inches of slushy slop in the driveway, which took about 2 hrs of Snowblower Hell to clean up.

But the negatives were far outweighed by the positive. 409 miles of excellent trails. A great ride with OVR on Monday am. A good short ride with Wigga on Sunday. 2 good rides with the wife (Phazer Girl). 1 nice moose shed found on Tuesday am. A nice moose sighting this morning. And no Ya-hoos or mechanical issues.

[Old Thumper]

Also saw a huge Owl this morning on Trail 139. Very cool !!! I stopped to take a pic, but he flew away.

[OldViperRider]

Old Thumper, my ride with you Monday was a lot of fun. Glad you had a good one this morning.

I picked up Don at East Inlet and Route 3 right at 9 AM, so you where through there about a half hour later. After hearing your report I am sorry I was not able to join you this morning, but I had promised Don to pick him up and go to the big city.

Let's hope your next trip to the Burg is as good as this one was.

Mark