Turkey Weekend Ride

[TooDeepTodd]

Kickin the rust off...knocking the dust off.

Had the traditional Turkey weekend ride up Harts Pass and thought I'd share some pictures. SnoTel is dead on...about 22-23 inches at the weather station. A few spots with 3-4 ft drifts. Tabletop is pretty heavy snow but not much danger of mushroom bites as there are very few stumps out there...Hills at TT are NOT yet ascendable as was evidenced by the few guys who tried and left the dirt trails behind (they are windward slopes and it blows off).

Couple of decent Bdocking opportunities left of the T and up/down from the road. Brown bear is all but inaccessible due too sun exposure but had some nice climbing down in the second drop-off bowl.

Warm day, 28-30 and freezing rain part of the day even up at 7k. No lower road access yet and in fact we plowed to within 3-4 miles of snotel @ 6.2k. (Didn't have to but just went until we got stuck...see pictures ) Saw a few brave souls grinding off the carbides and smooth surface of their expensive skis by trying to ride up from below dead horse. BE CAREFUL...it is icy through the chutes at dead horse and the road is as narrow as always.

Not as much snow as we have been spoiled by in the past but still a worthwhile trip just to stretch the new track and feel the love.

#1) STUCK
#2) TableTop
#3) Team Ski-Doo X
#4) Team Ski-Doo from the Cat's Vantage Point
#5) Got my Butt Cold Sittin on Top of the World!!
#6) Silly Dawgs trying to climb up to the Kitty CAT

 

[Fordman]

The first picture needs more explaining.

 

[M7 man]

The first picture needs more explaining.

its a ford whatcha expect? haha

 

[never_to_much_powder]

no i think that a chevey driver was at the wheel

 

[graveler]

word of the day, PATHETIC

 

[ericbigbore]

Thanks but no thanks.

 

[Comp 670]

I would love to be riding but I'll wait for some more snow..

Looks like fun though.

 

[TooDeepTodd]

its a ford whatcha expect? haha

Careful...my 250turbo is right in front of him and not stuck. This young man was along for the ride with us and apparently pushed it one corner too far. 90 minutes and a lot of pulling later we finaly got to go riding

 

[TooDeepTodd]

speaking of pathetic

word of the day, PATHETIC

Pathetic...yes but as I said worth it (to us) to stretch things out and make the list of adjustments for when it us good riding.

 

[M7 man]

Careful...my 250turbo is right in front of him and not stuck. This young man was along for the ride with us and apparently pushed it one corner too far. 90 minutes and a lot of pulling later we finaly got to go riding

haha im just messin.. you happen to ride with twisted boost?

 

[H20SKE]

Good to see that someone got on the snow on sleds!! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

The Ford being stuck---Oh well--Looks like wasted ride time because of to much testosrone LOL

I get a good kick out of that---Stuck--but wrong vehicle--even though you had a stick on the hill doing the same--throwing dirt--LOL


H20SKE...

 

[TooDeepTodd]

Twisted Boost

Don't know if I've ridden with him or not. I end up on rides with probably 50-60 different guys a year who come with friends and other friends etc. I don't remember aver having a conversation about the forums on the hill. Is he from this area?

Time wasted over too much testosterone hits the nail right on the head...or in this case the sled bed right on the tree

BTW- All the "Doo" stuff is just in good fun. All three of my buddies who were on new X's had vowed to take it easy during the break in and that is why they stayed at the bottom of the hill. I'm sure by mid season they will find the power band and climb up to have lunch with me . I actually was an X rider last season...still own it...it's a great "wife" sled.

 

[sledkiller1]

Glad to see it snowed somewhere.

 

[papa bear]

Didn't see you guys on thursday @ hart's. Guess you went fri or sat...

Snow was so so, but hey, it was snow.

Trick was getting to cache creek for parking......had to go through dead horse and there was a boulder in a bad spot. If you had a dually, one wheel would have been over the edge.....1-2000 ft cliff. Looks like you guys drove past cache3 creek and got yourselves in trouble...

wifes camera had a dead battery before we even got started - her usual...

Also went over to sweetgrass - about 4-5 miles of minimal snow. Same at freezeout pass.

 

[nickracer9]

how did the power claw work in these conditions?

 

[TooDeepTodd]

Papa...we were there on Sat. Looked like about 2-3 inches of new in past couple of days but you're right...no where near enough on the road yet and that stretch through dead horse was a ball grabber. I don't have a dually but an F250 turbo with 8" lift carrying 2 162's on the sled bed and 2 162's on the trailer and that f?!@#ing boulder was too big to move and too far out in the trail to ignore...if another one of those came down into the side of the truck it might be a long ride down that cliff. Ended up way up past the creek at the final wide spot before the T.

Nick, check the thread in "Arctic Cat" forum under "first ride on new garage mods" where I evaluated the Claw in these conditions.

 

[papa bear]

ToDeepTodd....wife got out at that boulder and nearly got hit by smaller fist size rocks that were coming down

I don't know how you got a trailer past that boulder

Coming back down was the tougher part for me. I got my wheel well up against the rock and had to back up/go fwd/back up/go fwd. Needless to say, I didn't want to go back there fri or sat.

 

[icepole123]

best site to find this places snow report

whats the site and how far from seattle

 

[TooDeepTodd]

NOAA Snotel

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mso/fwxmaps/ksew.php

In the link above, Find Lake Chelan, the long finger lake in the north central portion of the state just below the North Cascade mountains in dark blue. There is a Red square at the top of the lake. Due north of the red square and sitting all by itself in the middle of all that dark blue is the yellow square snotel site for Harts Pass.

Bookmark it but don't go, looks like it has been warm the last few days and snow levels are going down. Usually Harts is really good for early season and late season only. Due to the extreme danger at dead horse corner (8-10 ft trail with avalanche chutes straight up for 1000 ft and 1500 ft cliffs straight down the other side), it not recommended for "in" season riding. Awesome spring riding and most years Very good early riding...just not so much this year.

 

[M7 man]

Don't know if I've ridden with him or not. I end up on rides with probably 50-60 different guys a year who come with friends and other friends etc. I don't remember aver having a conversation about the forums on the hill. Is he from this area?

Time wasted over too much testosterone hits the nail right on the head...or in this case the sled bed right on the tree

BTW- All the "Doo" stuff is just in good fun. All three of my buddies who were on new X's had vowed to take it easy during the break in and that is why they stayed at the bottom of the hill. I'm sure by mid season they will find the power band and climb up to have lunch with me . I actually was an X rider last season...still own it...it's a great "wife" sled.

yeah he's from wenatchee. look at my profile under friends. he's there. figured you guys might have rode together being from the same town