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Note - updated Dec 2019 with the perfect outcome at the bottom...Original - With a whole crew coming up for new years we decided to put a hockey rink together - and wanted to go all out.  Some years the lake isn't all that solid by the end of December but we were in luck this year and had great conditions.  Here is the lake in early Nov and then again in Dec.  You can see the snow machine tracks running right where we wanted to put the rink, they needed to be dealt with.                    ...

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  The past 2 years have given us fantastic snow conditions in the Pacific Northwest! Deep snow and plenty of it have made for some great riding, and lots of digging out sleds! My buddy has been flying up to Haida Gwai all summer and said that the crevasses on the Pemberton Glacier weren't even showing this summer. Hopefully that means the glaciers were receading a little bit less this year. That also means we should be in for a somewhat safer snowmobiling winter, at least in one respect. Many credit La Nina ocean conditions for the increase in suitably...

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Hey Riders, Here's a quick video of how to load skis onto the snowmobile rack.  There is still room for boots or fuel inside the rack.

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Hi there, We've been getting some questions about how the snowboard holder portion of the snowmobile rack works.  If a picture is worth one thousand words then a video must be worth a billion.  Here is a quick vid of the rack in action.

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Like to try to place and see now things, we do!  That's why we'd like to applaud the folks at Tigwetee Lodge.  It's so hard to get a real snowmobile for rental without it being some lame intro group tour.  The folks at Tigwetee have real snowmobiles and real terrain to ride! Heck, it's the type of place you could take the family and still get your vacation fuel burning, now that's living!  Well done, we hope to come down for a visit some time. Another lodge along the same lines but in Utal is the Beaver Creek Lodge.  They...

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