Swan Hills 2011/2012 Season

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Just starting this for this years riding pictures and conditions. If anyone has info for the area, post it up PLEASE & THANKS. Ride Safe :D
 

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Been up there 3 times in the past week for work. They have a foot more snow then down by Spruce Grove area, maybe more. 2 feet if not more! Snow only starts to get deeper a ways past Ft Assinaboine (Spelling??)
Not much for tracks in the ditches when I was there.
 

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Buddy of mine was up riding around goose tower the other day and he said roughly 1.5-2 feet out there, that was on the 19th
 

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Buddy of mine was up riding around goose tower the other day and he said roughly 1.5-2 feet out there, that was on the 19th

sweet thats enough for a cut line ride anyways need pics to be sure
 

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Hes logging out there and said it was a complete whiteout most of the day tuesday the 22nd
 

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I was up towards the Freeman river today clearing sled trails. 8-10" and got deeper as we went farther north.
Rideable if you take it a bit easy. Esp. where the logs are now cleared! Freeman river still open in spots.
 

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Went up to part of the golden triangle about 20 km south of Swan on 33. With the warm weather the snow has definitely settled, was alot less than I saw before! felt all the bumps, enough to go on a trail ride, Meatbag and I had a good time but I wouldn't recommend travelling further than 30 min to get there, needs lots of snow still.
Trail's and cutlines had no tracks, but had some serious quad ruts and were rough as f%$#.
Here is some pics. Took some helmet cam footage I'll put on Youtube ASAP.

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Hi just got back from swan hills went to goose tower put on 70 miles. one to one and a half feet of snow good base had our track covered with snow coming back. was a great first ride


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no snow dont bother.......:beer:

lol, had a great day, good to see ya again beaver, and thanks for the test drive......most of the trails we're so so, need more snow, but on the cut line we rode found lots of good snow, not much of a base but rode in close to 1 1/2' of fresh most of the day...,.good start to the season
 

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Can someone send me a link to a map of the staging area or directions to the staging area. Going to spend some time trying to find this, but havent any luck yet.
 
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