(Season 2012-13) TY Mileage – Yellowknife

[Yellowknife]

Here's the latest... (sooner than usual!)

2013 Snowmobile Season: Episode Ten HD (720p)

Video Description: A day trip out to the wall tent & lodge to prepare for a 9 day sledin' trip, taking a trip up the ice road north of Yellowknife to the Diamond Mines in the Power Wagon with Anthony, checking out wildlife above the tree line including fox, ptarmigan, grouse, wolf and caribou, shots of Diavik Diamond Mine, another lodge trip for lunch with Andrew, showing off broken parts on the XTX as well as an update to its repair status, just missing two moose off camera en route to the lodge, checkin out Andrew's new Polaris, replacing the limiter straps on the XTX, the boggan load to start the 9 day sledin trip, the ride out to Namushka to meet up with the snowmobile club, a view of the lodge grounds, another trip to the tent to drop off fuel with Liam, meeting back up with the club for some fishing, heading to Jennyjohn to see Greg, Andrew, Nate, Jennifer & Janice, Nate updates us on the season mileage total for his XRS, sighting in a new rifle, the pile of fish that were caught & a few whiskey jack's chowing down on the guts, at the cabin with the kids, Byran cooking supper and talking about the bear damaging the couch.

Cheers,

YK

 

[Yellowknife]

Next Episode is ready:

2013 Snowmobile Season: Episode Eleven HD (720p)

Video Description: Alex pulls up a decent sized Pike with Niobe at the cabin, Byran & Niobe go for a spin on the mini-polaris, Allan and Byran collect firewood from a fallen tree, Barb looking for her lost camera, Alex catches another Pike larger than the first and almost as big as Byran, Allan trying to find some powder to do some carving, Allan and Mark arrive at the wall tent for a 5 night stay, getting some water for the tent, a status update on the generator issue's, reviewing what's broken so far on the trip, Allan and Mark head out for wood when Mark has an accident requiring a rescue, the rescue itself, more wood cutting and the discovery of some hibernating creatures, my first decent helmet camera footage of breaking trail, exploring old winter roads in an effort to find Bull Moose Mine, helmet camera powder carving, Mark cutting a tree out of the way, locating the mine site, shots of an old bird nest, video of the core samples left behind at the mine, exploring an old small building at the mine site and insulting my XTX again to end the episode.

Enjoy!
YK

 

[smoothride]

Great video's keep them coming. Soon winter will be over up there and the motorcycles will be coming in to town. What about the summer episode. A

 

[Yellowknife]

Great video's keep them coming. Soon winter will be over up there and the motorcycles will be coming in to town. What about the summer episode. A

I have so much footage, some of it amazing from the past 12 years that I could probably edit video 8 hours a day for a year. I'd love to get more summer stuff up. Right now I'm still trying to get through the winter stuff. Learning new software that also has glitches in it has slowed me down significantly, along with the increase in footage from the helmet camera I've started to use. It would be good if I got a laptop that I could edit with on the road but I don't have the money for that right now and just finished upgrading my computer at home in order to produce these video's in High Definition. We'll see what happens!!

OK, so here's the next episode!

2013 Snowmobile Season: Episode 12 HD 720p

Video Description: Audio Alert: One section is missing sound, it's an ongoing problem with my software.

More exploring from the wall tent, Mark gets stuck, we explore a mine site we've never been to before and it's the biggest one yet, in the process we stumble on some wildlife, target practise back at camp, more wood gathering, and a tease for more exploring in an upcoming episode.

Cheers,

YK

 

[MadMax]

Allen............................. I reallllllllllllllllllly liked this vid... How coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool it must be to find old buildings etc.. Do you have any idea how long ago it was left for dead ??? Thanks so verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry much for all the vids this year.. MM.

 

[Yellowknife]

Allen............................. I reallllllllllllllllllly liked this vid... How coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool it must be to find old buildings etc.. Do you have any idea how long ago it was left for dead ??? Thanks so verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry much for all the vids this year.. MM.

I believe it was in operation starting in the 1930's. The interesting thing about these sites, because of the lack of regulation back then (which still suck now) companies could abandon the sites without any liability for clean up costs. So today, it is the Federal Government's problem, so they go in and clean them up, but to do that they usually have to build winter roads, which in turn brings in prospectors who then stake claims again on the abandoned site and because they have easy access from the feds putting the road in, it's cheap for them to explore. It's become more common that once the feds go in to clean up a site, a new company comes in immediately after and re-opens operations. Today they are subject to more regulations around trust funds for clean up operations, but companies can still technically walk away without remediation leaving it on the backs of tax payers.

I'm working on the next vid now. Cheers!

 

[Yellowknife]

Well, here's the second last episode! (it's pretty good

2013 Snowmobile Season: Episode Thirteen HD (720p)

Video Description: Powder riding on a small pond, getting Mark unstuck, a must-see crazy encounter with some Whiskey Jack's while exploring on Consolation Lake, checking out another camp, rolling the 18,000 km mark on my 2009 FX Nytro XTX, breaking more trail, coming across unidentified tracks that may belong to 'big foot', finding a hair sample to send away for DNA testing, showing Mark the 'mansion' on Consolation Lake, arriving back at the wall tent for the night, waking up and sorting out the fuel cache the next day, going on a longer (existing) trail ride through Thor Lake Project (mine) and onto the cliffs at the East end of Blanchette Island on Great Slave Lake (East Arm) while checking out the largest pressure ridges I've ever seen, close up shots of ice frozen along the cliffs suspended in huge icicles, both Mark and I run out of fuel, noting the fuel mileage numbers, coming across a dead cat, packing up at the tent for the trip home, a minor accident on the ride home, and wrapping up the trip's total mileage.

Cheers,
YK

 

[MadMax]

Another "GREAT" vid.................. Congrats on the 18,000 mark... I have 10,000 + miles on my vector and my wife has 10,000 + miles on her V-Max......... You guys must take your TAME birds with you on your trips...... So what was your total clicks for the season ????????

Did ya find out anything about the hair ?????????????? MM.

 

[Agman 57]

Always enjoy your vid's! Looks like so much fun to go out exploring and finding all these treasures. Keep up the good work. Dan

 

[Yellowknife]

Thanks!!

Another "GREAT" vid.................. Congrats on the 18,000 mark... I have 10,000 + miles on my vector and my wife has 10,000 + miles on her V-Max......... You guys must take your TAME birds with you on your trips...... So what was your total clicks for the season ????????

Did ya find out anything about the hair ?????????????? MM.

Total clicks are in this next and final video of the season...

Nothing yet on the hair cause I haven't sent it out yet.

Here's the final Video: 2013 Snowmobile Season: Episode Fourteen of Fourteen HD 720p

Video Description: Helmet camera footage using the skiwheelz, passing by a dog sled team on the lake, Andrew has a jerry can dragging behind his sled, pulling some minimal wheelies, riding out to Jennyjohn, Christy learning to chop wood, a flashback of Margaret putting the axe into her ankle, Nate & Greg trying to make a Polaris fan cooled sled pull a catwalk, Matt surfing in the boggan behind the Bearcat, pulling some catwalks on Nate's XRS, catching a fish, riding home, maxing the XTX out at 159 km/h on the GPS (164 km/h on speedo), heading to the lodge/wall tent for disassembly, breaking my scratchers and melting my sliders on the XTX, tearing down the tent, the massive boggan load, checking out a natural spring overflow onto Hearne Lake, taste testing the water from the spring, identifying a potential issue with the XTX's starter, and wondering what another noise is after shutting the engine off, packing up the trucks with all the gear after the last snowmobile ride of the season April 21, 2013, and a final tally of winter season stats including mileage.

Thanks for watching my vids again this past season folks, I'm planning to continue them this coming winter and hopefully get some summer video's up in between so subscribe if you haven't to the youtube page in order to see the summer stuff; fishing/off roading/... there's even a bear attack episode coming.

Cheers & Thanks!

YK

 

[MadMax]

WOW. Over 55,000 miles... You need a hobby. Oh wait, you have one.
I just added mine up.......... 42,000+.. But this next year I'm hoping for 3,000/ 4,000 miles because I'm "RETIRED"

Thanks again for all the great reports... Have a fun summer.. MM.

 

[Yellowknife]

I wanna be retired!!! I'd ride every day all day all winter if I had the money and an entire winter off in Ontario/Quebec lol

 

[maim]

was a good viewing season as always.


sounds like you are going to need a starter as the solenoid might have stuck. rockmeister has a light for that and it does work. had it on my war. not on apex yet.

 

[Yellowknife]

Well folks - time to kick off another year...

new thread found here:

http://www.ty4stroke.com/viewtopic.php?t=123311

Cheers,
YK