Since our plans got cancelled due to mother nature throwin us a winter storm in April we decided to go up to the cabin to greet this storm and have a little fun in it.......

Headin up the highway to our planned trail ride;


We stoppped in Pine because my wipers kept getting frozen up and not cleaning the windshield;


We made our destination to find some good fresh snow, even though only a foot or so it was fun to play in in 2wd most of the time;

Once we got to the snow with no tracks more fun was to be had;

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I let TC go out in front for a while only to screw up the camera cos the snow kept filling up the lens;

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We made a few wrong turns and finally found the road we were lookin for and made our way to the tip of Milk Ranch Point...... Typically the view from here is awesome;


Was not to be today;




We stopped for a break and then worked our way back out;

On the way back out my wipers were frozen up again so we made another stop;



We found another road that had no tracks on it and we knew where it would come out so we hit it;

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We made our way back out to the 300 road and decided to head over to Potato Lake and see how things were over there?
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We made it to Potato Lake and decided it was a good place for lunch;







Missed this guy flyin in;

After lunch we bcaktracked back to the 300 road and opted to take it back to the highway. We went up the road a mile or so and found our first of what would be many "obstacles" I cleared the snow off of it to see if there were any branches that would take out a side wall and it looked ok to go over....... since I only aired down to 15 this proved to be my demise........ after a half dozen failed attempts to get over this little bastard I resort to stacking (I was gonna put the strap around it but found these), not rocks but water diversion worms.........



It still took a few attempts to get over it with some momentum....... frozen down trees are pretty damn slippery, just ask Wayne....... :hilarious:

It didn't take long and we were on our next down tree. We quickly made our way over this one without any stacking of any kind and it didnt take long before we were on another one. Of course the one time I dont bring the chain saw........

This one was elevated and had many more branches so I went straigh to the strap with this one;
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We got around this one and moved on to the next one, this one was gonn abe a little more work....... Or turn around, which we thought about but I wanted to try the strap a couple of times just to see....... this tree was larger, longer and was wedged between two other trees next to the road so we werent sure we were gonna have any luck here;

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I ended up in the ditch and actually got back out of it easier than I expected......... only to hook back up to the strap

It was rather funny that I would pull the tree and it would flex then spring back and pull me back with it..... even when I was in reverse.......... mind you I didnt want to hit it too hard cos if/when the tree would break free then I was goin backwards over the edge as you see here, it was a close call.......
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Once I worked my way back up on the level part of the road I hooked up to the broken part of the tree to drag it out of the way;
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We got past that tree and travelled a ways before the next one, this one was easier to remove but a little scarrier because the snow here was almost 2 feet deep, the road was off camber and the dropoff was much steeper and farther down;

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From here we just cruised the few miles back to the highway and headed back home....... was a great "plan B" trip to go out and play with mother nature and get on last snow run in........ Thanks TC and Donna for comin out with us....... had a blast.

freaking awesome, Sy. Great pics and great story, man! Looks like you kids had a blast. 8)

Symon623 wrote:

Calendar worthy. Jealous again
Looked awesome!