Cataract/Etherington 2012/13

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So what are you standing on, the ground? is there ANY base at all?? I'm thinking thats enough for me. Just want to get out and make sure my clutch bolt stays torqued, try out my new gear and my Drift camera.....
 

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Honestly there is not enough snow down there.WE went to Etherington and there was maybe 4 inches in the parking lot,we drove down to Cataract and same thing.
We drove further south down towards the Old Man River and decided on a little road ride.
If you drive down there today I do promise you will be disappointed,we were!
It'll be a couple of weeks,maybe longer till this is ridable...
 

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Well, we saw Daves comments but still held out hope for better results if we went further west.... it didn't get any better.

We did make significant progess with cleaning up the trail by chopping up 6 logs that crossed the trail and we removed lots of rocks, but the snow cover just wasn't there.

The last hill before the shale field is pretty much as far as we made it because it only had 4inches of loose snow over icey rocks and it couldn't be climbed without wrecking stuff. We did pull one sled up that hill by hand to take a look up ahead. However, there wasn't enough snow to shovel in the hole on the last climb, so it wasn't worth going any further and we turned around. In addition to the lack of snow, all 4 creeks were open.
 

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Good to see someone working on opening up the trails. Most just wait till someone else does it. THANK YOU for taking your time to do this

Agreed 100%

You should have posted you were going out. Would have helpped you out!
 

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Well, we saw Daves comments but still held out hope for better results if we went further west.... it didn't get any better.

We did make significant progess with cleaning up the trail by chopping up 6 logs that crossed the trail and we removed lots of rocks, but the snow cover just wasn't there.

The last hill before the shale field is pretty much as far as we made it because it only had 4inches of loose snow over icey rocks and it couldn't be climbed without wrecking stuff. We did pull one sled up that hill by hand to take a look up ahead. However, there wasn't enough snow to shovel in the hole on the last climb, so it wasn't worth going any further and we turned around. In addition to the lack of snow, all 4 creeks were open.

As long as we are making tracks its a good day.

These guys aren't afraid of a little work to get to the snow……….hell they'll even try to get there in July!!!

Thanks for sharing guys. The BC side hasn't got much yet!
 

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2012-11-17 15.37.13.jpeg.jpg Was anyone out at Cataract this weekend? Picked up 2 2013 Summits yesterday and want to try them out. Snow mostly melted around Strathmore.
 
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I don't think it has snowed there since the last update. Probably all gone again in the parking lot :-(

Nice machines by the way....
 

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60 cm's over the last three day's according to the k country avy forcast. Not bad almost time to take
look?
 

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I'm taking a couple months off, so ANYTIME anyone needs to go - lemme know, I'll check my busy schedule!! :)

I'm thinking I may try Sunday too to check stuff out.
 

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I'm taking a couple months off, so ANYTIME anyone needs to go - lemme know, I'll check my busy schedule!! :)

I'm thinking I may try Sunday too to check stuff out.

Hope to see you there!!! We will probably head down the road from the Cat parking lot to the meadow first so head in that direction if we don't hook up in that parking lot. Do you have my cell Number??
 
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