ROBBIE HOLMAN
Whitefish, MT, owner Avid Products; president, Montana Snowmobile Association
Favorite Riding Area: My favorite area is behind Hungry Horse Dam (southeast of Columbia Falls, MT, and west of Hungry Horse Reservoir). The entry road is the s#!*&. No grooming allowed. That keeps some people out. That ridge gets more snow than our ski hill and our ski hill gets about 160-170 inches of snow a year. I have been riding there long enough that we can always find untracked snow and almost never run into anyone. I'm a powder hound. Our hills are like the ones around the cabin at Revy, only we have lots of trees. A 20-second full throttle pull is a long one for us. There is always something in the way. It is probably the most technical riding area that I have experienced.
One of the drawbacks to having all this snow is we run in a lot of flat light. There are hardly any sunny days until spring.
Why There? Deep snow, trees and varying terrain is what this area is about.
How Long Have You Been Riding? I have been riding for about 25 years.
Your Current Ride: Currently I'm running a Ski-Doo XP with an 880 and 174-inch long, three-inch lug paddle track. There are about 30 other sleds around here with this track. A 162x2.5 is considered a small track. It is very hard to maintain much momentum with the trees. If you try to regain momentum going uphill in soft snow the smaller tracks will dig a hole or you'll have to turn out.