Even "light sleds" when packed with snow and tied down by roots over the skis while your standing thigh deep in wet melting snow are HEAVY and tough/ impossible to move alone. Like Turk has always said we should ride our sleds not lift and carry them.
I you want to know why ....... I recently found this out AGAIN the hard way.
Riding the very edge were the trail was smoother and there was loose snow............BOOM I drop/ get sucked off the edge of a 3 ft 90 degree little cliff at the edge of the trail - snow was LEVEL, birch tree trunk dead ahead so on binders and NOW stuck. Cant even walk up the edge with out using my hands, much less ride. It was 46 degrees the track and whole sled was full of the watery snow and I couldn't even lift the back end of my sled ie viper to reposition, couldn't walk around to pack snow under the track., I swore just one ski of the front end weighed more than a thousand pounds. I am not a little guy can throw my sleds including a Venture GT around the garage no problem. I was stuck, it was heavy thankfully a Ski Doo Rev guy and his girl stopped and helped me out. Eventually he pulled from above on the trail; I had one hand on the throttle the other pulling on the rear bumper. We had to dig down to the skis only to find them wrapped UNDER ROOTS we both tore out one at a time........no wonder so 'HEAVY" It was another adventure riding ALONE thinking I am fine............I can be an IDIOT.........Thanks skidoo guy! I feel better after that like going to confession LOL
