I need to clear my mind here...
- Thread starter Dizzle
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Wow, that statement really set me back. If I was headed to the mountains and thought I couldn't spent a couple of nights out there I would NEVER leave the house.
I guess that happened at Lolo Pass last night.
Guys were stranded and out of gas. They didn't lay down and die. They made a fire and spent the night. Walked out this morning.
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Days of Our Live's
Wow this thread is starting to make my head spin just like having to sit and watch a episode of Days of Our Lives with my wife! After ten minutes everyone has had more issues then most people have in a life time! Then I need to ask what the hell is going on here or break away and take a ani-depresent! I started on a 1970 Homelite 440 so this dates me already! First sled I took to the mountains (Cooke) was a 1980 340 Trail Cat, bad experience! Then I borowed my to be brother in law's 1980 6000 El tigr'e. That sled made me into a pro! Then I took out a 1980 SRX, another BAD experince! Then I bought a used 1985 Phazer that already had 5000 miles on it! Was a great moutain sled with a few tweaks. Modified the hell out of it and raced it till there was no more class's for it except Vintage. Has close to 8000 on it and still own it. Then went to a 1993 580 EXP. Another great sled and did good in moutains with some tweaks. This was the sled I learned more of a complete setup on for drag racing, ditch banging and mountain riding on! Then came the half year 580 ZR. What a piece of machinery! The polaris's were kicking our arses on the trail and with alot of work the 580 could keep up with the Skidoo's on the track! Now I could literally hit anything in the ditch. Now I am dizzy again pulling up all of this old info from dusty brain cells!! I guess where I am going here, have a least 10 more sleds to go, is this was a progressive learning curve over my lifetime. Some of them not so good from the scars on my hands from studding to my missing teeth from a bad couple of years when I was indestructable. Now you can go in and plop down 12 grand or so on place your brand __________ and all or most of those years of experience can be null and void and you look like a pro after some hit and miss time. I started seeing this more and more in the early to mid 2000's and it has just excellerated from there. Took six years off of sledding for the kid thing and jumped right back on last year with a tired but now new again 09 600 sno pro snox sled. Thought this was a good way to jump back in for flatland and mountain. Mistake I made was jumping on a Pro last year. If I knew nothing about mountain ridding and bought this sled would of been easier then trying to manhandle this sled like my whole life I was trained to do. Have rode the others too and with just a few fundimentals like staying on the uphill side of the sled you can do or outdo what it took a mod sled to do 10 years ago with still way more money stuck into it! As for breaking stuff! I was told a LONG time ago by a man I respect as a Mountain Man to Expect the Unexpected out there on the mountain and soon as you think you have the upper hand you WILL get bit! He use to use me as the guiny pig for getting out of bad situtations. Never left a sled yet out overnight knock on wood! Now I need to get my 13 Pro out and see what she can do! Fond memories but I don't think I will look back for long! I can't wait to see what they come up with for 2024!!! Enjoy these sleds for what they are, a machine to get you from point A to point B. We are a pretty tight community so if the ugly head of a rock or broke component rears its head there is usually way more then needed help to get you out. Just ask us old hands. If I get asked for my ID now days all you see is smoke coming from my wallet to show the pretty young gal my youthful age. We have guys in our club well into there 60's still ridding so I plan on being there into my 70's at least! Stay healthy my friends!!!!!!
Wow this thread is starting to make my head spin just like having to sit and watch a episode of Days of Our Lives with my wife! After ten minutes everyone has had more issues then most people have in a life time! Then I need to ask what the hell is going on here or break away and take a ani-depresent! I started on a 1970 Homelite 440 so this dates me already! First sled I took to the mountains (Cooke) was a 1980 340 Trail Cat, bad experience! Then I borowed my to be brother in law's 1980 6000 El tigr'e. That sled made me into a pro! Then I took out a 1980 SRX, another BAD experince! Then I bought a used 1985 Phazer that already had 5000 miles on it! Was a great moutain sled with a few tweaks. Modified the hell out of it and raced it till there was no more class's for it except Vintage. Has close to 8000 on it and still own it. Then went to a 1993 580 EXP. Another great sled and did good in moutains with some tweaks. This was the sled I learned more of a complete setup on for drag racing, ditch banging and mountain riding on! Then came the half year 580 ZR. What a piece of machinery! The polaris's were kicking our arses on the trail and with alot of work the 580 could keep up with the Skidoo's on the track! Now I could literally hit anything in the ditch. Now I am dizzy again pulling up all of this old info from dusty brain cells!! I guess where I am going here, have a least 10 more sleds to go, is this was a progressive learning curve over my lifetime. Some of them not so good from the scars on my hands from studding to my missing teeth from a bad couple of years when I was indestructable. Now you can go in and plop down 12 grand or so on place your brand __________ and all or most of those years of experience can be null and void and you look like a pro after some hit and miss time. I started seeing this more and more in the early to mid 2000's and it has just excellerated from there. Took six years off of sledding for the kid thing and jumped right back on last year with a tired but now new again 09 600 sno pro snox sled. Thought this was a good way to jump back in for flatland and mountain. Mistake I made was jumping on a Pro last year. If I knew nothing about mountain ridding and bought this sled would of been easier then trying to manhandle this sled like my whole life I was trained to do. Have rode the others too and with just a few fundimentals like staying on the uphill side of the sled you can do or outdo what it took a mod sled to do 10 years ago with still way more money stuck into it! As for breaking stuff! I was told a LONG time ago by a man I respect as a Mountain Man to Expect the Unexpected out there on the mountain and soon as you think you have the upper hand you WILL get bit! He use to use me as the guiny pig for getting out of bad situtations. Never left a sled yet out overnight knock on wood! Now I need to get my 13 Pro out and see what she can do! Fond memories but I don't think I will look back for long! I can't wait to see what they come up with for 2024!!! Enjoy these sleds for what they are, a machine to get you from point A to point B. We are a pretty tight community so if the ugly head of a rock or broke component rears its head there is usually way more then needed help to get you out. Just ask us old hands. If I get asked for my ID now days all you see is smoke coming from my wallet to show the pretty young gal my youthful age. We have guys in our club well into there 60's still ridding so I plan on being there into my 70's at least! Stay healthy my friends!!!!!!
I've been debating weather I should respond to this statement or not, but what the hey. I guess I'm showing my age but I have slept under a tree, I have walked for miles, by myself. I have been in situations that I wish I'd hadn't, but I was. Over the years I've learned, sometimes the hard way, what I need in my pockets and pack. Back when it would literally take 2 days before my wife would even start phoning around wondering where I was.
I've done the survival thing, as long as your not busted up, I'm good until I run out of beer, then I'm going home.Similar threads
