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Ya gotta hand it to YK........ He sure is an expert at leaving us in suspense!!!!!!!
BenderSRX
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LMAO ^^^^^^^^^ You got that right, can't wait to hear about this hot tub at the tent.
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
Sleding Weekend Number 19 and 20 (Part Six)!
So Melanie and I were off to the tent after our Hearne Lake Lodge trip. Even though I joked about it in the video, there is no hot tub at the tent. I wish. We were fueled and ready to go
On the way in we went through trails that were burned out by a forest fire years ago
We stopped at Hidden Lake Gold Mine, to have a look at the remains
And someone got a little silly
We hit the tent, dropped off our supplies and it was time for more riding through the afternoon
We headed to Thompson Lundmark Mine, another abandoned mine that was burned out years ago and Melaine enjoyed the 4 person at once outhouse
She was fascinated by all the equipment, left in piles of wreckage
Theres even documents, dating back to 1941
And whats playing in a mine site without risking it collapsing on you?
Finally evening approached and it was time to head back to the tent
The next morning, it was time for Melanies surprise a trip to Blackford Lake Lodge (http://www.blachfordlakelodge.com/)
But not before this happened
Oh yes you HAVE to see the video
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part 6 Video Link
Cheers,
YK
So Melanie and I were off to the tent after our Hearne Lake Lodge trip. Even though I joked about it in the video, there is no hot tub at the tent. I wish. We were fueled and ready to go
On the way in we went through trails that were burned out by a forest fire years ago
We stopped at Hidden Lake Gold Mine, to have a look at the remains
And someone got a little silly
We hit the tent, dropped off our supplies and it was time for more riding through the afternoon
We headed to Thompson Lundmark Mine, another abandoned mine that was burned out years ago and Melaine enjoyed the 4 person at once outhouse
She was fascinated by all the equipment, left in piles of wreckage
Theres even documents, dating back to 1941
And whats playing in a mine site without risking it collapsing on you?
Finally evening approached and it was time to head back to the tent
The next morning, it was time for Melanies surprise a trip to Blackford Lake Lodge (http://www.blachfordlakelodge.com/)
But not before this happened
Oh yes you HAVE to see the video
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part 6 Video Link
Cheers,
YK
MADDOG24
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Keep em coming!
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i thought cats climb trees better than that.
Cody
Expert
love the videos Yellowknife, do you still have snow?
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
LOL
The snow is gone, but there's still ice on the largest lakes.
Sleding Weekend Number 19 and 20 (Part Seven)!
Where NOT to stick your fingers when lifting up the front of an 800 pound bearcat.
So with Greg’s sled in the bush, we were busy to check exactly what was busted so we could decide how we were going to get everyone to the lodge and not have to send anyone home.
While Greg was riding, a bolt for the a-arm broke off. The pressure on the remaining connected part of the a-arm caused it to break in half…
When the bolt came out, we don’t know, we didn’t find it, there was nothing left, not even a bushing.
It finally let go regardless and sent him and Mel into the tree’s.
We had to rig something up to get the sled back to the trucks since we were at the start of our trip and couldn’t continue with the bearcat. We started with a boggan pin…
That didn’t work, so we stole a bolt from an idler wheel and fit it in there…
I’ve never seen an a-arm snap like this…
Greg managed to ride it with the temporary fix back to the truck…
But with a sled now down, we had 2 people to find a spot for. With no extra machine’s, we were about to try doubling people up and using an extra boggan we had as a method of transport…
The boggan idea didn’t last as you’ll see in the video. So we dumped the boggan, and I doubled Greg on the Nytro while Mike doubled Mel on the Phazer. Mike and Mel did fine, but I was dieing with Greg on the back of the Nytro because he can’t balance himself standing let alone on the back of a tippy sled.
We got as far as Hearne Lake Lodge again, which was on the way, and decided to stop in for some options. Don had a boggan with a stand up grate at the rear, so we decided to try that…
It didn’t work either, the boggan was too narrow for the person standing out back on soft snow, so we ditched that idea. Now we put the two largest riders on the 2-up touring sled, I took Janice with me and that was far more manageable, but there was no room for another break down…
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part Seven Video Link
Cheers,
YK
The snow is gone, but there's still ice on the largest lakes.
Sleding Weekend Number 19 and 20 (Part Seven)!
Where NOT to stick your fingers when lifting up the front of an 800 pound bearcat.
So with Greg’s sled in the bush, we were busy to check exactly what was busted so we could decide how we were going to get everyone to the lodge and not have to send anyone home.
While Greg was riding, a bolt for the a-arm broke off. The pressure on the remaining connected part of the a-arm caused it to break in half…
When the bolt came out, we don’t know, we didn’t find it, there was nothing left, not even a bushing.
It finally let go regardless and sent him and Mel into the tree’s.
We had to rig something up to get the sled back to the trucks since we were at the start of our trip and couldn’t continue with the bearcat. We started with a boggan pin…
That didn’t work, so we stole a bolt from an idler wheel and fit it in there…
I’ve never seen an a-arm snap like this…
Greg managed to ride it with the temporary fix back to the truck…
But with a sled now down, we had 2 people to find a spot for. With no extra machine’s, we were about to try doubling people up and using an extra boggan we had as a method of transport…
The boggan idea didn’t last as you’ll see in the video. So we dumped the boggan, and I doubled Greg on the Nytro while Mike doubled Mel on the Phazer. Mike and Mel did fine, but I was dieing with Greg on the back of the Nytro because he can’t balance himself standing let alone on the back of a tippy sled.
We got as far as Hearne Lake Lodge again, which was on the way, and decided to stop in for some options. Don had a boggan with a stand up grate at the rear, so we decided to try that…
It didn’t work either, the boggan was too narrow for the person standing out back on soft snow, so we ditched that idea. Now we put the two largest riders on the 2-up touring sled, I took Janice with me and that was far more manageable, but there was no room for another break down…
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part Seven Video Link
Cheers,
YK
awesome
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
Sleding Weekend Number 19 and 20 (Part Eight – The Final Chapter)!
We’d arrived at the lodge after all that chaos and were happy to be there…
I gave Mel a tour around the lodge…
She was loving the animals!
Greg was passed out, as usual. Maybe that’s how the sled went into the bush??
We took a nice trip the next morning out to the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. Mike got stuck…
And we passed through yet another abandoned mine site…
Complete with housing…
And a kitchen!
Not much farther though is a new exploration camp for rare earth metals. They are so promising, that they are one of the few handful of exploration camps running in the north through these economic times…
They revived an old truck and a tractor from the abandoned site we passed…
And finally we were at the East Arm of Great Slave Lake…
The pressure cracks were awesome…
And looking through 5 feet of solid black ice ain’t bad either…
At the cliffs, the war was on!
Massive ice, end to end…
Then it was time to head back…and the ride was, well, back breaking for Greg on that touring sled…
The next day, Greg, me and Mel headed out Caribou hunting…
We didn’t get any. We seen 5, but they were too far away from the camera to take any video or photo’s. We drove all day long, and because nothing went wrong, it was a normal trip…which made it abnormal for us.
Enjoy the video!
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part Eight Video Link
Cheers,
YK
We’d arrived at the lodge after all that chaos and were happy to be there…
I gave Mel a tour around the lodge…
She was loving the animals!
Greg was passed out, as usual. Maybe that’s how the sled went into the bush??
We took a nice trip the next morning out to the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. Mike got stuck…
And we passed through yet another abandoned mine site…
Complete with housing…
And a kitchen!
Not much farther though is a new exploration camp for rare earth metals. They are so promising, that they are one of the few handful of exploration camps running in the north through these economic times…
They revived an old truck and a tractor from the abandoned site we passed…
And finally we were at the East Arm of Great Slave Lake…
The pressure cracks were awesome…
And looking through 5 feet of solid black ice ain’t bad either…
At the cliffs, the war was on!
Massive ice, end to end…
Then it was time to head back…and the ride was, well, back breaking for Greg on that touring sled…
The next day, Greg, me and Mel headed out Caribou hunting…
We didn’t get any. We seen 5, but they were too far away from the camera to take any video or photo’s. We drove all day long, and because nothing went wrong, it was a normal trip…which made it abnormal for us.
Enjoy the video!
Sleding Weekend Number 19 & 20: Part Eight Video Link
Cheers,
YK
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Awesome YK!!!!! Looked like guys had a blast.........
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good last adventure.
at least they know a good atv. looked like kodiaks at the bunkhouse.
at least they know a good atv. looked like kodiaks at the bunkhouse.
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
Oh there's more - that was the last adventure while my sisternlaw was here - there's still all of April's adventures to come, and one more in March!
This is becoming an Epic! (not a bad thing)
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
Sleding Weekend Number 21!
After Mel’s visit was finished, the following weekend rolled around…this puts us at March 28, 2009.
I managed to get some of my best shots of northern lights. I use a consumer Panasonic Lumix camera with a wide angle lens for all my still photo’s you see on here. It’s been a solid camera and has the widest range of photo capability I’ve seen in a $300 camera. I drove out on the ice road on Great Slave Lake and away from city light pollution and shot these…enjoy!
Back to sleding – myself, Nate and Sean trailered an hour to Behchoko, where we started riding the ditches along side the highway to Fort Providence. The snow was pristine, and deep…4 feet, which was fantastic…
There was lots of getting stuck on this trip, and extended track length with paddles was an asset.
Sean is the guy with the new E-TEC, and he had roughly 1000 km’s on it at this point and was very happy with it. Here, his ripsaw track simply didn’t cut it…
Once in a while, we get a nice drift to ride over…
Carving through this stuff was awesome…
There were some great spots to side hill a little too…
Until you run out of gas…
We were eating the fuel as we rode, all of us had the throttle to the bar all day long…
The video explains how we do this type of trip, and it’s a trip I like to do annually.
More getting stuck…
And cresting some banks…
Now someone had some belt problems with super hot clutches…
How many belts did you go through Nate?
And just a lot of jumping the sleds in the powder…
Nate took some great shots!
It turned out to be a great trip, over 15 hours long.
The video shows more, enjoy!!
Sleding Weekend Number 21 Video Link
Cheers,
YK
After Mel’s visit was finished, the following weekend rolled around…this puts us at March 28, 2009.
I managed to get some of my best shots of northern lights. I use a consumer Panasonic Lumix camera with a wide angle lens for all my still photo’s you see on here. It’s been a solid camera and has the widest range of photo capability I’ve seen in a $300 camera. I drove out on the ice road on Great Slave Lake and away from city light pollution and shot these…enjoy!
Back to sleding – myself, Nate and Sean trailered an hour to Behchoko, where we started riding the ditches along side the highway to Fort Providence. The snow was pristine, and deep…4 feet, which was fantastic…
There was lots of getting stuck on this trip, and extended track length with paddles was an asset.
Sean is the guy with the new E-TEC, and he had roughly 1000 km’s on it at this point and was very happy with it. Here, his ripsaw track simply didn’t cut it…
Once in a while, we get a nice drift to ride over…
Carving through this stuff was awesome…
There were some great spots to side hill a little too…
Until you run out of gas…
We were eating the fuel as we rode, all of us had the throttle to the bar all day long…
The video explains how we do this type of trip, and it’s a trip I like to do annually.
More getting stuck…
And cresting some banks…
Now someone had some belt problems with super hot clutches…
How many belts did you go through Nate?
And just a lot of jumping the sleds in the powder…
Nate took some great shots!
It turned out to be a great trip, over 15 hours long.
The video shows more, enjoy!!
Sleding Weekend Number 21 Video Link
Cheers,
YK
YamahaOutlaw
Extreme
I think Nate needs to spend the money on the kit to float his secondary...I would have dumped gas on my sled and put a match to it if I was grenading belts like that! 
