LOL...not a small sled..back in those years we (my trapping partner and I)both pulled 2 sleds ....1 with 9- 6.5 gallon gas cans and the other with food,clothes, safety gear and traps..even small mounds look big pulling tandem sleds breaking trail but was a royal blast...we run an area that runs about 120 miles from north to south by 250 miles east to west...nowdays the kids and friends mostly go when I go so 1 tow sled per snowmachine works pretty good...for those who think they can ride anything..try hooking a sled with 55 gallons of fuel in it and take it wherever you go...gives a whole new meaning to powder riding....
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Snow Flake
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My father inlaw was an ink salesman to the newspapers in Alaska. All the large newspapers in the Northwest purchased ink in 55 gallon drums and the real big ones had holding tanks for a 1000 gallon tanker to fill.
They had 5 gallon plastic jugs to sell to the small town once a week papers. Those jugs were real heavy duty. Even the big Alaska papers purchased a bunch of the 5 gallon jugs of ink. They dragged the jugs behind their Ski Doos in a train and just left them on thr tundra one by one as they needed the gas.
You Alaskans probably still see those blue jugs laying around out there.
They had 5 gallon plastic jugs to sell to the small town once a week papers. Those jugs were real heavy duty. Even the big Alaska papers purchased a bunch of the 5 gallon jugs of ink. They dragged the jugs behind their Ski Doos in a train and just left them on thr tundra one by one as they needed the gas.
You Alaskans probably still see those blue jugs laying around out there.
We come across 55 gallon drums pretty often..there has been alot of mining in this area since the turn of the century...5 gallon plastic drums I havent noticed much...but I would imagine that they would be numerous around the dogsled trails out close to the villages....
here's a few more pics of where we ride as well as a dual sled setup(this one was a spring bear hunt with my son and a very good friend)..
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Good to Go
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Let me guess: Lead rider hit a tree under that there snow...
LOL...no trees in this area..but rocks can be a problem..he just wasn't sure he wanted to drop in this valley..it just got deeper and deeper the further down we went..I dropped my sleds right where I took this picture from and broke a trail down thru the valley this was very late april..over 10 ft. of soft untouched snow,bottom of the valley had a little creek going thru it with walls about 8 ft deep..and everything sloped pretty good down to the creek walls..was a nice mile and a half side hill above the creek before the valley widened out...
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