I find that you CANNOT focus on the obstable or you will hit it. ( tree or rocks) You say to yourself " I better not hit that " and what do you do? Hit it. I force myself to look past the obstacle to the escape. You tense up less and are force into a pro- active situation instead of a re-active one.
crazy climbs......and the ride back down
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So has anyone ever had their brakes go out while doing a pull get to the top and try to stop. This happend to me once no idea why or how my brakes failed but they did. Stopping at the top was easy but the ride down i nearly chit myself.
I broke a chain right after climbing the hill in the second pic......no engine braking or brakes.........twas scary to say the least. good thing i was out of the bowl.
Ya that would be pretty bad lol. at least I was able to get my sled out under its own power. The ride out though sucked because of all the hills and other obstacles it would of been nice have brakes to use for.
Going up is definately the easy part. I hate coming back down, even on small stuff, but I am getting better with time, only my second year riding snowmobiles, but I don't think you can ever completely get over it.
Why does it always look steeper and longer on the way down ?
and you know your in trouble when you can't see the surface of the hill in places on the way down
and you know your in trouble when you can't see the surface of the hill in places on the way down
just deploy your parachute coming down
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krazytrain
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Went to Mt St. hell ens to ride with a friend on there concrete, just before
you drop into the plains he decided to climb the mountain - about 3/4 the way up the mountain his top gear striped and here he come's backward's down that concrete just as fast as he went up, had no time to bail off, he made it - But he was puken in his skid lid and shaken like a dog sh!ten prun seed's...
I won't give his name, he might start shaken.
That snowcrete is great for speed going up and DOWN ! i have lost 3 sleds
there, when they roll they roll to china, you can always find the sleds by
the CRUMBS they leave ya.
you drop into the plains he decided to climb the mountain - about 3/4 the way up the mountain his top gear striped and here he come's backward's down that concrete just as fast as he went up, had no time to bail off, he made it - But he was puken in his skid lid and shaken like a dog sh!ten prun seed's...
I won't give his name, he might start shaken.That snowcrete is great for speed going up and DOWN ! i have lost 3 sleds
there, when they roll they roll to china, you can always find the sleds by
the CRUMBS they leave ya.
x2!
I hate it when you can't see the snow in front of you and all of the sudden your catching air! My buddy did that last year, then watched as his sled shot right into the trees. Made it all the way through the group and tagged the last tree dead center. I did a nice endo last year doing the same thing. But luckily I was going slow enough that my sled ended up standing straight up with the nose buried. Going up is always better!
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theultrarider
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My ultra did this from the day it was new! Get to the top, no brakes. Open the hood, let it cool a few minutes and they would come back. I talked to the dealer several times and of course was told it was me. I figured out that the coolant bootle was too close to the brake caliper and was boiling the brake fluid and moved the bottle. Problem solved. Couple weeks later I get a letter in the mail from Polaris with a safety recall. Coolant bottle relocation and do not ride this machine until done!!! Thanks Polaris. Made for a few wild rides down until I just knew that I was going to have no brakes when I got to the top.
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H2SNOW
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more than once you find yerself poking at a hill to find yourself poppin over the top ...one time in Atlin at the Hillclimb there was the course and then there is bowl ....there was a pretty steep wall and a narrow chute at the top....well we all made the first section and there were all of these fricken high marks from previous guys trying to get out over the top of the bowl
one of my buddies went up ...I said well Im going ......he was on his way back down when I reached the top ....looked around and saw the helicopter ...turned around and headed back down ...I tell you what !!
all those highmarks from the other guys were fricken 4 feet deep bath tubs and you had to pin it to get yer beak up in the air on the way down otherwise you would be eatin them ....
had more adreniline pumpin at the bottom than I did at the top ''
word to the wise don't go up there and have lunch ..get the hell out while you are still jacked ....imagine droppin in to a negative face about 1000 feet down
and Im afraid of heights go figure
one of my buddies went up ...I said well Im going ......he was on his way back down when I reached the top ....looked around and saw the helicopter ...turned around and headed back down ...I tell you what !!
all those highmarks from the other guys were fricken 4 feet deep bath tubs and you had to pin it to get yer beak up in the air on the way down otherwise you would be eatin them ....
had more adreniline pumpin at the bottom than I did at the top ''
word to the wise don't go up there and have lunch ..get the hell out while you are still jacked ....imagine droppin in to a negative face about 1000 feet down
and Im afraid of heights go figure
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Clarke673
Somewhere between too dumb to quit and flat earth
I know your pain. I really prefer to climb **** i can jump over the other side and come back down.
I got a crazy climb im doing on my 800 IQR on Sunday when i get my sled back. Its all wind blown and hard packed by the sun. Its steep as hell and i have to pick thorough downed trees and rocks. The hill is probably at least 2000 feet tall and although most good riders could make it on most sleds. There is no way i will be able to come down. So.... I am planning on going over the top and coming down on a old logging road on the back side. I made my own belt ski hoops but they don't help that much.
My friend got a new HD camera so I will post a vid of the climb if it looks cool or anything cool happens.
I almost made it the other day on a 06 700 poo. Got to the middle of the 2nd bench and decided it wasn’t worth doing on a barrowed sled.
I got a crazy climb im doing on my 800 IQR on Sunday when i get my sled back. Its all wind blown and hard packed by the sun. Its steep as hell and i have to pick thorough downed trees and rocks. The hill is probably at least 2000 feet tall and although most good riders could make it on most sleds. There is no way i will be able to come down. So.... I am planning on going over the top and coming down on a old logging road on the back side. I made my own belt ski hoops but they don't help that much.
My friend got a new HD camera so I will post a vid of the climb if it looks cool or anything cool happens.
I almost made it the other day on a 06 700 poo. Got to the middle of the 2nd bench and decided it wasn’t worth doing on a barrowed sled.
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SilverGriz
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I would much rather climb than come down. Thanks for the visual on the spare belt. I have heard about it, but have never seen it in use.
Sometimes you climb to far to the side and you just have to take a little walk to see where you are going to end up. This is my son experiencing such a dilema. First thing out of his mouth when I asked him if he went a little to far was "DUUUHHH!" My buddies and I had a good laugh on his account. He remembered a cliff underneath somewhere but he lost track of where it was. A little walk cleared his memory.
i ride a rev and the reverse trick is the best thing in the book you can stop on damn near anything no matter how steep it is. i just wish some one would have showed me it a few bumpers and a pipe sooner lol
yeah, its bad when hte snow gets all hard and its easy to climb
one of our main climbing areas has a road right throught the middle, if you dont hit the spot thats covered you hit a road cut flying downhil, pin it and jump off and hopefully land, done that once and only once, or get kicked off and roll about 500 feet down the hillside to the bottom.
one of our main climbing areas has a road right throught the middle, if you dont hit the spot thats covered you hit a road cut flying downhil, pin it and jump off and hopefully land, done that once and only once, or get kicked off and roll about 500 feet down the hillside to the bottom.
Belts around the ski's work great, I cut up two old ones and bolted them together wide enough to fit over easily over the ski's (dealers usually have extra old ones from belts they have replaced). Getting them off can take a minute or two as they get wedged back under the ski. One on each side helps the sled go down straight(er), only issue is you can't really turn so make sure it's a straight shot down. I have used the same ones for 4 different sleds over 8 years. I only use this method once (or twice) a year when I get in a bad spot, almost always in the spring when you can climb anything and it's slick going down. More often than not I am lending them out to newer riders that aren't quite ready to total their sleds. For the most part if you can't ride down it normally you probably shouldn't be on it. We all get in situations where you make a bad decesion or make it up and need to get back down. It's a just in case type deal, special occassions only. I usually only carry one in the middle of winter to save space in the bag, it works well but pulls more, if you use one make sure you put it on the side that it's safer to get "pulled" a little too (i.e. away from a tree in the fall line).
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