Walt Longmire Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 A friend bought a brand new Skidoo Summit and was itching to ride. Extremely windy, but we went out anyway. I usually don't ride in conditions like these. 50-60 mph winds. A dozen degrees above. Blowing snow. Hard to see the terrain. We rode careful, but did find a few places where we were able to spank them. There were times when we had the wind to our backs and the snow we were kicking up was passing us up. Later when we turned for home we had to ride into that wind. Put about 40 miles on the gauge out on The Refuge. Back home now, warming up by the wood stove, eating moose breakfast sausage and eggs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Our lovely neighbors took theirs for a ride the day before yesterday- down into our northern field, where they found our busted baby tractor (it's been sitting there for months now because the ground was too wet for me to take the pickup truck down to get it), and dragged it all the way home to us (that's up a hill steep enough you have to take the dirt bikes up it as fast as they'll go in order to get to the top instead of dying 2/3 of the way up. I was quite impressed. Also grateful! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 2 hours ago, Walt Longmire said: A friend bought a brand new Skidoo Summit and was itching to ride. Extremely windy, but we went out anyway. I usually don't ride in conditions like these. 50-60 mph winds. A dozen degrees above. Blowing snow. Hard to see the terrain. We rode careful, but did find a few places where we were able to spank them. There were times when we had the wind to our backs and the snow we were kicking up was passing us up. Later when we turned for home we had to ride into that wind. Put about 40 miles on the gauge out on The Refuge. Back home now, warming up by the wood stove, eating moose breakfast sausage and eggs. You Crazy Mother ******...and I mean that in the most Respectful way. Damnit man... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 Still windy as hell. Power outages all over, but my lights are still on. Wood stove is doing it's job. Temps will be going negative soon for the next week. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21 shooter Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I had to look up Skidoo Summit and discovered it was not a snow plow with a heated cab. In my younger days this would have been fun. Nowadays no alcohol and various bones that don’t like freezing cold would prevent this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I drove a snowmobile (i know, i know) only several times in my life. The last time was a high school friend's. So.. 80 or 120, KPH, or whatever, he hits a rock, or stump. Broke the ski off. Now there's four or five of us dragging this thing back, five miles, up some steep hills. At one spot, on The Car Lines, we could drag it through some old hermit lady's property (it wasn't even her property. It was public CarLines, but she put a gate across it), 1/4 of a mile across smooth-flat, and then up the road, or 1 mile up and down steep rocky paths. We were halfway across "her" yard when she came out to yell at us. We all just totally ignored her, except our one friend, which was his usual temperament, cussed her out like a Sailor, including stuff we never even heard before. She stormed back into her house, in her nighty, and came out on her porch with a shotgun. Unloaded on us. We got rained with falling birdshot, but were in the road, so we didn't care. We made sure to M-80 her mailbox, every time we had them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 My sister got rock-salt in her leg, while riding her horse, from the same old lady. She said they'd do horse-doughnuts, in her front yard, when they were in the mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: I drove a snowmobile (i know, i know) only several times in my life. The last time was a high school friend's. So.. 80 or 120, KPH, or whatever, he hits a rock, or stump. Broke the ski off. Now there's four or five of us dragging this thing back, five miles, up some steep hills. At one spot, on The Car Lines, we could drag it through some old hermit lady's property (it wasn't even her property. It was public CarLines, but she put a gate across it), 1/4 of a mile across smooth-flat, and then up the road, or 1 mile up and down steep rocky paths. We were halfway across "her" yard when she came out to yell at us. We all just totally ignored her, except our one friend, which was his usual temperament, cussed her out like a Sailor, including stuff we never even heard before. She stormed back into her house, in her nighty, and came out on her porch with a shotgun. Unloaded on us. We got rained with falling birdshot, but were in the road, so we didn't care. We made sure to M-80 her mailbox, every time we had them. I have been in on a lot of adventures on snow machines. Wrecks way out in the woods. Broke down 50 miles from anywhere on the Refuge late at night. Chased by moose. Had a go at wolves a few times. So far everyone has survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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