Lanaudiere, Quebec photo ridereport

[towing]

Yesterday, -15C, beautiful sunny day my wife and me started our ride a little more south at St-Gabriel de Brandon on #345 trail

It was the first gromming so it was not perfect but it's a beginning. I make my effort and removed some branchs

The first field trail was nearly perfect

A view of this new portion of trail near St-Damien

We ride carefully in St-Zenon direction. There was a little ruff segment of 1 miles near pourvoirie St-Damien but it was verygoo after.

The trail was beautiful and we ride at good speed. We still need to be carefull because there still little surprises sometimes but it's pretty fine

There is still some lumberjack activity in this area (should end very soon) so we need to do around 1 mile on the border of this road just before...

pouvoirie Réal Massé...

Trail become even better after. The 345 between la Glacière and the Cabanon was freshly groommed

and very good and fast...

action shot ...

and we arrived at Cabanon

The cold week hard froze the Stanislas lake that is ready for drags

After the lunch, we continue on the #345 in the direction to take the #318 trail that we just tried a little last week-end. It was a little bumpy at first but ride fine

And we took the #318 est direction. Fresly groomed and near no traffic since = near perfect conditions

This trail is groomed on a park road, perfect condition on long strechs...

It's a forgotten area from alot of people so there is very low traffic...

Some strechs are pretty fast

and the scenic is very nice

We took a little break at Maubèche falls

A little walk and we took a break on the river border

And we continued

I stopped to remove some rocks from this beautiful trail

And we took the #350 trail to go to Koubec. Trail condition was a little less good on the last 5 miles before we arrivied there..

We took back the #350 trail in Glacière direction. This trail was'nt recently grommed and was pretty much bumpy.

We continu and conditions improved a little until we go crossed and took the #345 trail that we used in the morning that was still in very good conditions

We took a break at Real Massé

And we go back to our starting point with a total of 165 miles on the dream meter

To conclude, trail conditions improved from last weekend with the snow and the cold weather. Groomers do miracle with the snow they have. The snow base is still thin and there are few rocks in some area. The south of Lanaudiere begin to open their trails, the one near my home was groomed today so the traffic will divide throught more large area and will help trails to hold...

Next ride on the christmas week-end for me...

Bye

Alain

 

[LABRADOR WARRIOR]

pics

great pics
a bunch of us from Labrador City are planning on heading out to Quebec (Chicoutimi area)this year to enjoy some of those beautiful trails that quebec has to offer

cheers

 

[ITHAPPENS]

Great photos and excellent report. Lanaudiere is one of our favorite areas. We were out from Montpellier(Duhamel area) to La Minerve on Sat..Some trails mid winter condition, others not yet groomed. All in all a good start. Bring on the snow. Thanks again for the photos.

 

[towing]

thank you guys

Winter in starting slowly this season but now we are in ....

Alain