Hey everyone

I'm new to this part of the board so maybe there are posts about it, but I haven't seen em!

Anybody into snowmobiling here? With the summer leaving and winter coming I'm getting excited for the next engine-powered activity!

I have an ArcticCat Thundercat 1000 and I can't wait to get it out on the trails, but especially the lake. Did a little bit of clutching work last year but still mostly stock. Touched 117mph last year so I'm going to play with the suspension a little and see where it gets me.

What are other people riding?

 

When I lived in Canada I'd do it at my dad's inlaw's cabin every winter. Unfortunately, Texas doesn't have snow so I haven't done it in quite a while.

If I was back in Canada, I'd definitely have one.

 

Go for a fan-cooled sled. They run on grass, sand, anything!

There is absolutely no way that you and I are the only sledders on this site

 

I live in socal, so I almost never see snow, but one winter a couple years ago my family and I went to Yellowstone National Park and rented snowmobiles for a few days. Went through the park and around the literally hundreds of trails just west of the park. Best vacation I've ever had. The two-strokers we had could hit 100mph, which scared the crap out of me, but it was fun as hell. And it was just weird walking through 4 foot drifts after never seeing more than a couple inches of snow in my life.

 

Polaris RMK 800 (mine)
Polaris Pro X 800 (brothers race sled)
Polaris Switchback 800 (pops ride)

 

Awesome. Though I haven't been, a few good friends of mine went out to wetern Canada into the waaay northern territory, Revelstoke (sp?) and they have something like 15 feet of accumlation of snow every year. I saw a great photo of the place they stayed at in the summer and the second story had no railings on the balcony. Then I saw the next picture with snow on the ground up to the second floor and realized the snowtop becomes the new ground in the winter. Can't wait to go there myself

Pinky, dunno where in the States you are, but if you get a chance to make it up to Quebec you'll never have a better time in your life! We go up to rural FrenchieTown every year a few times and the trails are amazing. Till you break 110mph on a decommissioned railroad track trails you haven't lived. I'll post pictures tomomorrow from one place where we stopped for a "pop" along the way.