simply awesome

[Jim]

Hats off to Dick Parker for fixing that trail south of Armstrong Creek. I just got back from a little 70 mile ride, and the trails were awesome.
:cheers:

[townsend chris]

[QUOTE=Kevin;7815]If your in a group you should make sure the people or person behind you is still there?????? We ran into a guy whos sled died last sat.,his group was at the bar a good mile+ ahead of him. One person from that group did go back to look for the guy,we told him where he was;)[/QUOTE]

I think members of his group were on there second drink before they knew
they were missing someone!!!!:rolleyes:

[townsend chris]

[QUOTE=paddy;7806]Jim; personnaly I much rather prefer to meet sledders who keep both hands firmly planted on their grips. Maybe it's just me,however I feel more secure knowing that oncomming sled is under compleat control. For the most part the people I meet who do signal don't need to as I can see the sleds behind them, conversly the ones who don't are ridding faster than their group and probobly should. If you ride safely on the proper side of the trail[even in the corners] hand signals are not nessesary, and actually a pretty stupid thing to do. My motto is expect to meet oncoming traffic and set yourself up on the trail accordingly. While operating a groomer I do expect to see some sort of signal indicating more sleds are comming if it's daylight, though daylight grooming is more or less counter-productive so I try to groom mostly at night to allow the trail time to set-up....paddy[/QUOTE]

Paddy,
just curious, what club do you groom for.

[tomanybikes]

[QUOTE=Jim;7749]It upsets me sometimes, when they don't give me any hand signals to let me know if/how many riders are behind them. Whether I'm in the groomer or on the sled. Now, if you can't SAFELY hand signal, then by all means-- keep BOTH hands on the sled. But I don't think that's the case for most of them. But to me.... if you don't give me a signal, you might as well be giving me the finger! Maybe it was that group of 'professional riders'. :rolleyes:

Keep Right and Ride Safe! :thumbup:[/QUOTE]

Maybe the time has come for one way trails? I have a daughter that is 15, she pretty much rides around our cabin or lake frontage. It is the same on the four wheeler. The trail thugs have pushed her into this. Bummer.

[toolman]

[QUOTE=tomanybikes;7915]Maybe the time has come for one way trails? I have a daughter that is 15, she pretty much rides around our cabin or lake frontage. It is the same on the four wheeler. The trail thugs have pushed her into this. Bummer.[/QUOTE]

What am I missing here? I'd like to know what has happened that your daughter is limited to driving around your cabin and lake? My daughter is 12 and this is her first year driving. She took the snowmobile safety course and I drove her up and down many times a trail by our house that isn't that busy and of course on the lake. I take her out on the trails for at least an hour or two every time she is with me up north. With her I am usually riding with three or four of us, and I lead, then my daughter and then my wife. We ride a fairly tight formation in the 20 - 30 mph range in the straights, and slower in the corners, making sure she stays on her side of the trail. Just as when she isn't along, the leader basically runs blocking, letting everyone know whats going on. As the leader, there is always that chance that something can happen, after all your first, and you do come into blind corners. However I usually take her out on trails that I don't think are going to be that busy either. I have to admit that about 50% of the time I ride I do encounter what could be determined "close calls", however, they have always been corrected. I don't on a regular basis hear from others in the "group" or behind the leader that they almost got hit by someone going by, so what is it that has happened?