Off to Maine for season

[snowbeast]

Going home today. Rode a mix of trail and exploring untracked roads and some backcountry play areas. Mistakenly took a bunch of night time advil after I got my rental car so no riding the day I arrived. Lost 1/2 of Sunday chasing down the front skid shock bottom spring retainer and setting up Stingray Bill Mohr shock. Ran the reroute from Prong Pond to Greenville. Hey nice ride but Greanville is only 9 minutes by lake. Monday Looped from Beaver Cove around the N side of Moosehead over to NE Carry (very fast leg) down to Kokadjo and Lily Bay back to Beaver Cove. Got my Winder hung up bad in a ditch not far before Pittston Farm. Huge thanks to the Augusta ME carwash guys that stopped to help extricate the beast.

Rode lake S to Greenville then a bunch of untracked roads and moose poop and play areas and jumping. Made Hawks Nest for lunch then down to Northern Outdoors for fill up and show. Not sure what happened but a couple with Apexes were arguing and struggling to get their sleds loaded on a trailer. Lots of cursing and vrooom vrooom. Trails pretty mealy and snirty of course around The Forks but majority of trails held up surprisingly well. Some bare corners. Big snowflakes this morning but stopped already not much new snow. Gotta watch for new snow and trail reports to get back to The Forks.

Actually did ride 85/86 completely bewteen Kokadjo and Greenville and most was better than expected but didn't ride the worst part since the warm up yesterday so from Prong Pond to Greenville. There are so many old trails and reroutes in that are that it can be confusing. The signage is a mess around the B-52 site. The 110 intersection is clearly marked with a kiosk.
My season is most likely over. Probably have my sled taken home next weekend to have it serviced at my dealer. My Winder is now at 3434 miles. Only thing that happened this season was breaking the front skid spring and loosing the spring retainer. There is no sled in my group that can touch it on the trail or lake. In the backcountry, well I watch a lot, and help the others dig out to build credit for whenever I get stuck.

Jack,sorry to hear you are done for the season,glad you had a very good year here in our state,and hope you return next year. So did you get any good spots on Moosehead to open up the beast,if so what were your gps top runs like? I am in hopes this coming week,to maybe get some end of winter readings that are good,this has been a weird winter for sure.

 

[actionjack]

Jack,sorry to hear you are done for the season,glad you had a very good year here in our state,and hope you return next year.

I expect to be back for years to come as one of my friends bought a camp in Beaver Cove to semi-retire and is really enjoying the Maine life. Boy we hopped in my truck to go home from the airport and see all the I-95 traffic makes you miss Greenville instantly.

So did you get any good spots on Moosehead to open up the beast,if so what were your gps top runs like? I am in hopes this coming week,to maybe get some end of winter readings that are good,this has been a weird winter for sure.

I have a 1.6 Ice Cobra to try to ride with my backcountry friends. The track robs a lot of top end. Never set out to run max mph this year, especially on Moosehead Lake. I have a very high level of respect for the danger of the lake. This past Tuesday would have been perfect but the pressure ridges spook me. Saw 115 mph a couple years ago in QC. Pretty much run Ecotrail most of the time. My previous last trip a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t hold past 100 on Grant Brook or the Parkway, probably because of the then undiscovered broken spring. The desire for every last mph is diminishing a quite bit.

My primary and secondary rollers look good. I did not blow a belt this season. Will start next season with a new belt since I probably flat spotted it a bit while off-trailing.

Considering a 1.75 track. And trying lighter primary weight clutching to get more instant transfer lift.

 

[snowbeast]

I expect to be back for years to come as one of my friends bought a camp in Beaver Cove to semi-retire and is really enjoying the Maine life. Boy we hopped in my truck to go home from the airport and see all the I-95 traffic makes you miss Greenville instantly.

I have a 1.6 Ice Cobra to try to ride with my backcountry friends. The track robs a lot of top end. Never set out to run max mph this year, especially on Moosehead Lake. I have a very high level of respect for the danger of the lake. This past Tuesday would have been perfect but the pressure ridges spook me. Saw 115 mph a couple years ago in QC. Pretty much run Ecotrail most of the time. My previous last trip a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t hold past 100 on Grant Brook or the Parkway, probably because of the then undiscovered broken spring. The desire for every last mph is diminishing a quite bit.

My primary and secondary rollers look good. I did not blow a belt this season. Will start next season with a new belt since I probably flat spotted it a bit while off-trailing.

Considering a 1.75 track. And trying lighter primary weight clutching to get more instant transfer lift.

I can say for sure pressure ridges can ruin your weekend quickly,rangley lake and a lot of big wind blown lakes,gets some nasty pressure ridges and just some nasty drifts that are hard to see,until you get launched off at big speeds,hopefully you hit it on the correct side,if you get my drift,no pun intended.