Day 2 on the cat!
Muskoka Freerider: Arctic Cat's 858 Redemption:
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It's good news for Cat and the consumer. We don't need to lose another manufacturer. I'm not a Cat guy, but am rooting for them and It's good for the industry. I respect Matt's reviews. I think they're honest and unbiased. Wishing them great success with the Catalyst.
I am not a fan of trying to get out of S***Holes in the dark lol!
Right. We're the first ones in the parking lot in the morning because I like to drive back home in the daylight haha.
its the strangest thing.
But when that big ball of fire in sky goes down at the end of the day.
Its gets COLD!
It's cold in the mornings too! Taylor's fork parking lot almost always has a temperature inversion where it'll be -20 at around 8am, but then you ride up a thousand feet and it's 25 aboveits the strangest thing.
But when that big ball of fire in sky goes down at the end of the day.
Its gets COLD!
End of January last season one of the guys was full of piss and vinegar and wanted to keep going and drop into a new hole at 3:00pm. Two of us didn't have headlights. I told him why don't we just play a bit on the way back instead. Sure enough one sled lost an a-arm and another sucked a rock through a cooler. Rolled up to the truck right at dark with one in tow and another with a sapling lashed to the ski tips!
Exactly, mine too. Not sure if you follow Northwest Dynasty on YouTube, but the video of our last ride was like this and luckily we made it out before dark because we didn’t have options of side hilling and coming up and out of it into another zone. If we would’ve gone to the right or left we would’ve been in gnarly open creek drainages. And being a helium hood guy I was actually rooting for the dark so I could throw my oxbow helmet light on.
I had an experience like that about 15 years ago when we were on the way back from a ride and one of the guys who knew the area attempted to take us through a shortcut. That ended up with us at the bottom of a canon (on a fairly deep day), and it was a struggle to get everybody out. It was 11 pm or midnight before we got back to the trucks.
Seems like these guys love a sufferfest! This is an easy one compared to other’s. Good to see him outride lots of others in the cat. I think that’s just skill and talent but hey those other guys have some skills too!
That freaking HARD CORE
Us Montanans are a hearty bunch lol!
I had one years. An after dark affair and I was the only one that knew the way out. I told everyone to sit there until I find the way out. I took off and got just far enough away and ran out of gas. Screamed at the top of my lungs and one guy heard me. He came up to me and got stuck. We got it unstuck and I took his sled to find the way. Came back and poached a little gas from my buddy. We had one last hill to pull and my buddy stopped straight up on hill. I went by him wondering why he would stop there. We'll, mine died just above him. Now I knew why he stopped. My other buddy, that I poached some gas from, went to climb hill and his ran out. 3 sleds out of gas on hill and 4 still in hole. My one buddy didn't have much gas because the one I borrowed his sled to find way out ran out and used a bunch of it. We ended up leaving 3 sleds and dumping gas out of sleds. Thank god one of them lit a fire. My hands were so cold.Those 3 had to walk to the top of hill and double up. Still had 15 miles to go with 4 sleds. Half way to the truck another one ran out so 3 people on one of the sleds. Just when you thought the nightmare was over my buddy's sled ran out a quarter mile from truck. I hooked a rope and pulled him. We got to the truck at midnight. My wife was there and 2 others. Kind of over those days. Got the 4 sleds the next day.
Sounds like where we ride. Regularly -10 to -20 in the parking lot and if you hit the wrong bowl you can feel the temp drop from there. That particular bowl (peters sinks) I believe has the 2nd coldest reported temp in the lower 48. If you stay on the ridge outside the bowl it’s significantly warmer. We try to beline right through that bowl on those days if we go that direction. Good times.
Where are you guys riding that the temps are so cold? As much as I complain about the Tahoe area snow (Sierra Cement) I have to admit we have it good with regards to temps. The coldest I've ever seen it was 12 when we started riding and by mid-morning it was 25, by lunchtime it was 35. And with the sun it was even warmer.
I rode one winter in Montana (2005-2006) and remember getting frostbite on my temples where the cold would come in around my goggles. Brrrr.
I rode one winter in Montana (2005-2006) and remember getting frostbite on my temples where the cold would come in around my goggles. Brrrr.
Yeah, often times the worst part about those late nights is the wife/loved ones worrying because we're not back yet. Kind of over those days as well, if at all possible.
I regularly ride around a place called Peter sinks near Logan Utah, the sink itself has the 2nd coldest reported temp in the lower 48 states at like -69.3. Give it a google if you wanna learn more. Typically it’s not that bad, but like I said above leaving the lot at -10 to -20 is not uncommon. Most days once the sun comes up it’s not bad, especially if you avoid the actual sink in peters. Usually by mid day we’re hitting around the 20+ degree range, although there has been days you leave the truck at -10 and ride all day and return at just 5 above. Don’t do a lot of sitting around on those days.
