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What a difference few degrees makes. It was Monday and the week was forecast to dump from Wednesday to Friday, only problem is that it was supposed to rain, ruining the base and leave that awful crust for us. Let me tell you it was all cursing and disgust around the shop. Well, turns out we got ahead of ourselves as it ended up coming in nice and fluffy instead of all wet. Almost 4 feet of fresh was waiting for us Saturday morning. The weather wasn’t quite finished with us but there was good local vis. We made it...

One of the great things about riding in the Caribou region of BC is the tremendous variety of conditions. There are unlimited miles of trails to ride, and those trails are in all sorts of conditions. There is club groomed wide trails for easy fast riding. There are: Single track trails that are well established and well looked after Main roads, mostly to be avoided, there are Logging roads - be careful if it's a work day Single track trails that people haven't been down in years and could do with some TLC, Bush whacking. Each year the Port Tack...

Each winter for a couple generations we've been enjoying and building the trail system in the Caribou Region of BC, near 70 Mile house. With a small cabin on Pressy Lake as home base we've done a lot of exploring on our snowmobiles in the winter and ATV's or dirt bikes in the summer. Finally catching up with GPS technology seemed like a priority. For one, getting lost is no fun, and for another we like to maintain certain main arteries while exploring or forging new ones. This year not only did we log our riding of snowmobiles but we...

Every winter we head into the interior of British Columbia to do some bushwhacking and trail riding.  Usually what separates the two experiences is whether someone with a chainsaw has been down the path recently.  We like to contribute our fair share so we bring the chainsaw on the snowmobile most outings. Where we ride the trees are quite brittle in the winter and snow falls in big bunches.  That leaves many trees fallen and blocking our path.  If the trees are still alive we'll shake the snow off them in hopes that they'll learn to stand up straight again...

So we're heading out to Pressy Lake in the 70 Mile House area for the winter break.  We're got plans to test out the racks and accessories while we GPS map the area for other riders.  As you can tell from the photo below, we plan on burning plenty of fuel!   If you're curious, you can see a couple of the jerry cans we looked at designing the snowmobile racks around before we found the one we wanted.  Up front are 6.6 gallon cans.  We liked the size but the handle was only average and the nozzle was terrible,...