A few questions

[FirecatF5SP]

If your idea of a great time is pinning the throttle to the bar, screaming down the trail and taking the whole thing up in the process, maybe you should just keep going east! We have some pretty decent trails here and it is fun to "turn up the heat" from time to time, but if your plan is to just come in and race the trails, I'd appreciate a heads up before you go.

I have a few moderately experienced riders in the family and they know to stay on their side of the trail and that people are going to go flying past them in both directions. However, it scares the living he__ out of me when people are taking up both sides as they come flying around blind corners and such. I have an old friend in E. Idaho who was a very successful businessman and ended up getting messed up by one such rider. Ended up like a 6 year old for life. Similar moron ended up taking Carl Struthers away from friends and family too (from what I understand).

So bring whichever sled you want to Idaho and have a great time. But please leave your Ricky Racer ideas at home.

Like everything in life there is a time and place for everything. I'm sorry I didn't interject for you "when it was safe to do so" My mistake! Should have stated that. Didn't get to the age I have by riding stupid and endangering myself and others.

 

[FirecatF5SP]

In Idaho, Ricky Racers end up missing a corner, and getting pinned against a tree, in the bottom of a creek gully, a hundred feet below the trail. And, there's not many long straight trails here. Maybe what you need is one of our mountain lakes. There fun to blast down, until the compression waves build up, or you find a thermal spot in the lake.

Have yet to miss a corner or even damage my sled.....like I said above...time and place.
Thanks for the heads up on thermal spots......had a few on certain lakes in Alaska. And never heard about shockwaves on a lake with a sled? Sounds like ice road truckers! Have never witnessed that with a sled.

 

[Wade]

Have yet to miss a corner or even damage my sled.....like I said above...time and place.
Thanks for the heads up on thermal spots......had a few on certain lakes in Alaska. And never heard about shockwaves on a lake with a sled? Sounds like ice road truckers! Have never witnessed that with a sled.

Late in the year, some lakes will start to form these ridge and troughs. Sometimes there's water in the trough. And, sometimes their big enough to lawn dart the far wall. Can scare you pretty good, on a flat light day.