Rock Doctor
02-06-2012, 11:27 AM
Made a trip in to the bush for a few days with my girls. Wife wanted to take in the "Womans Weekend" without any distractions from the rest of us, so we lefthttp://www.6x6world.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif
Weather was OK, temps dropping down around -20C at night and up as high as -5C in the day. Mostly clear skys.
The trip into the Cabins was relativly uneventfull. We did break open some trails that had not been used yet this winter. Some of the trails were really tight to navigate with the axle extensions and wide tracks.
Oldest daughter is 8yrs old and managed to make the trip in without any problems.
It's amaizing how different the landscape looks under a couple feet of snow. There were a few times there when I was not sure just exactly where I was supposed to go.
Trip in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykHGMa6ap4
Someone made off with a bunch of my Firewood, so we had to make a trip out to gather up some more. We went into an old drained Beaver Pond, to cut up some wood. Holy Cow those are nasty places to ride. Stumps, logs, holes, runs, deadfall and brush........ We never stayed long. I managed to step into a hole that I couldn`t reach the bottom of. The snow cover made it look OK, but looks can be decieving. I also backed over a stump that managed to stick itself up between my 2 back axles on the drivers side. Luckly, this time, I got it to break off so I could keep moving (Last time this happened, I had to pull a tire out of the tracks, and poke my chainsaw in the hole to cut the stump offhttp://www.6x6world.com/forums/images/smilies/help.gif)
Wood Trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzltMkpeWE
Fun Ride in the snow down to a friends cabin, we just went out looking for something to do. Found a couple hills to climb. In their current configurations, the Adair Tracks seem to be working better than the Supertracks. The snow is very loose and crystaly, seems to be working like marbles under the Supertracks, the larger paddles on the Adair Tracks seem to work better in these conditions. The "flat light" makes everything looks flat, but if you watch, you will see that we do have a few hills around to play on.
Fun Trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIk4FqbjO_s
The trip back to the truck on Sunday was fun, my second daughter (7yrs old) drove one machine all the way out (eldest daughter had a "tummy ache". We came across a couple guys in a new Bombadier Comander "Limited Edition" on Tracks. Well, it was on 3 tracks, the 4th track was peeled off the front passenger side. They tried to climb up a creek bank that had a narrow trail up it. Too narrow for the tracks, causing the machine to drive out of one track. Having experienced this myself, I had another route in mind to get out of the creek.
Not as warm as the trip in, but still a nice day
Trip out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0R6M1iPQ8
So, anyway, that was my weekend with the girls
RD
Weather was OK, temps dropping down around -20C at night and up as high as -5C in the day. Mostly clear skys.
The trip into the Cabins was relativly uneventfull. We did break open some trails that had not been used yet this winter. Some of the trails were really tight to navigate with the axle extensions and wide tracks.
Oldest daughter is 8yrs old and managed to make the trip in without any problems.
It's amaizing how different the landscape looks under a couple feet of snow. There were a few times there when I was not sure just exactly where I was supposed to go.
Trip in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykHGMa6ap4
Someone made off with a bunch of my Firewood, so we had to make a trip out to gather up some more. We went into an old drained Beaver Pond, to cut up some wood. Holy Cow those are nasty places to ride. Stumps, logs, holes, runs, deadfall and brush........ We never stayed long. I managed to step into a hole that I couldn`t reach the bottom of. The snow cover made it look OK, but looks can be decieving. I also backed over a stump that managed to stick itself up between my 2 back axles on the drivers side. Luckly, this time, I got it to break off so I could keep moving (Last time this happened, I had to pull a tire out of the tracks, and poke my chainsaw in the hole to cut the stump offhttp://www.6x6world.com/forums/images/smilies/help.gif)
Wood Trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzltMkpeWE
Fun Ride in the snow down to a friends cabin, we just went out looking for something to do. Found a couple hills to climb. In their current configurations, the Adair Tracks seem to be working better than the Supertracks. The snow is very loose and crystaly, seems to be working like marbles under the Supertracks, the larger paddles on the Adair Tracks seem to work better in these conditions. The "flat light" makes everything looks flat, but if you watch, you will see that we do have a few hills around to play on.
Fun Trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIk4FqbjO_s
The trip back to the truck on Sunday was fun, my second daughter (7yrs old) drove one machine all the way out (eldest daughter had a "tummy ache". We came across a couple guys in a new Bombadier Comander "Limited Edition" on Tracks. Well, it was on 3 tracks, the 4th track was peeled off the front passenger side. They tried to climb up a creek bank that had a narrow trail up it. Too narrow for the tracks, causing the machine to drive out of one track. Having experienced this myself, I had another route in mind to get out of the creek.
Not as warm as the trip in, but still a nice day
Trip out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0R6M1iPQ8
So, anyway, that was my weekend with the girls
RD