Season 2009-10 TY Mileage- rxrider- Maine, Quebec, Norway

[rxrider]

Rider: rxrider
My rides season 2009-2010:

Home: Lakselv, Finnmark, Norway - 70N lattitude & 25E longitude
Sled1: 2003 Yamaha RX-1 ER Custom Front Mount Turbo System
Sled2: 2008 Yamaha Apex RTX Bone Stock

Riding area: Finnmark, Norway
Find my riding area in Google Earth, search for: Lakselv, Norway

I'm going to take part in the TY mileage again this year, I will shoot pics for my ride review from all rides this year as well.

I will be be riding in the northernmost part of Norway, around 70 deg northern lattitude, I live in the town Lakselv, Norway. In Google Earth, search for: Lakselv, Norway.

Here's a few maps of my riding area.

Finnmark, the northernmost region of Norway. To the south west you find northern part of Sweden, to the south is Finland, and to the east you find Russia.

Trailsystem of Finnmark.

Trailsystem close to home town Lakselv.

I plan on documenting every single ride this season so there will be a lot of trails covered in my reviews.


I will start this seasons thread as usual with a teaser of the first snow covering the mountains at 2000 ft or 600 meters and up.

With Haydays done and the first frost and snow in the mountains sledding season is officially started Think snow, winter is getting closer.

 

[Swiss Sledder]

Is the trails system about getting from point A to point B, or are the trails about getting into the mountains?

 

[rxrider]

Both, most trails ends up at a dead end, but a lot of trails are A to B trails. From Lakselv I can ride out west to Alta or out east to Tana. I can cross the border to Finland at Njuorgam, Ochejohka, Garagasnjarga and Guovdageidnu where I can enter the vast trail network of Finland. They have trails all over the country all the way down to the capitol of Helsinki. From Finland I can enter Sweden which have even a larger trail network than Finland with trail going from the north down as far south as they have snow, close to Stockholm I would guess.

Locally most trails are mountain trails with only a few trail leading from A to B

Do you wanna come riding with me for a early April ride sometime? You are very much welcome to do so any time.

 

[rxrider]

We're getting closer to winter for every passing day. We've had snow in the mountains since monday. Up north, about 50 miles from here snow is on the ground all the way down to the sea.


Here's a few pics shot out the windows at my office at work.

Mount Čakkálvárri covered in snow.

Mount Gussavárri.

At work, from this desk I have control of all servers and workstations in my organization.

Here's my workbench where I set up computers before they are delivered to the end user. I also do maintenance and repairs here.

Think snow

 

[Addict]

Is ty4stroke the default homepage for the browsers??

 

[rxrider]

Should have been but my bosses would have kicked my butt if I changed the Local Government start page http://www.porsanger.no/ to Ty4stroke.com

I have tried a few Yamaha sled wallpapers on desktop computers, Yamaha people seems to like them, but then the treehuggers, doo, poo and ac fans complains about it, then it's back to the default Windows backgrounds LOL ....

 

[Addict]

I hear ya. My co-workers don't get it when I have a nice winter trail pic as my wallpaper in the middle of summer.

 

[rxrider]

If you look closely on my double screens, on the left screen you can see some of my 2009 Apex RTX Wallpaper, to the left of Outlook that is. Yeah I get comments on it specially in summer, and at this time of the year when sledding season are getting closer.

 

[Swiss Sledder]

I like the drawings on the wall. LOL.

 

[Crewchief47]

I like the drawings on the wall. LOL.

Ya, and what's with the hard drives on the wall??? Trying some new interior design options?

 

[rxrider]

Drawings are my childrens work visiting their father at work

The HDs are about the first 3.5" HDs on the market, the one with largest storing capasity could store 30 MB of data, the other ones were only at 15 MB. Hahahaha the 30 MB HD required DOS 3.0 to be able to use the whole disk space LOL.
It's more like contemplary art I guess.

 

[04rxw10]

I'm surprised that there is no trail map on the wall or would that make the itch unbearable to ride.

 

[rxrider]

If you look carefully in the last picture, on my workbench, above the LCD Display on the right you will find Porsanger county trail map. No it's the opposite, it's thinking about riding that makes it bearable to be at work, looking at the trail maps takes me away dreaming about the beeing out playing in the white stuff LOL

 

[rxrider]

Snow's flying, we had the white stuff on the ground for the first time this season, unluckily the weathergirls are calling for hot weather the next few days before getting back to freezing again. I hope the snow at altitude will stay put and not melt away, one can only hope Man we are close to winter....yeehaaa

 

[obr]

I'm ready to ride!!!

Let's do the snowdance.... Just get that turbo put together, and I'll come over for a pre-christmas ride