Having a coffee this morning going through S&M and thought wow, its been 20 years since I first tried snowmobiling in the mountains. Living in central AB growing up we always had a sled around the farm, but some years it never turned over due to lack of snow. My dad had bought a 1979 Arctic Cat Pantera 500 new and we used it until the late 80's until the steering column broke under the engine plate. It was torn apart but sat in the shop occupying numerous pails of nuts/bolts until I decided to fix it myself at the age of 15. I cobbled together the steering and was able to put it back together, and after mixing up some fresh premix, that sucker started on the second pull. I rode all over the countryside on that thing and it never let me down. Dad always said that sled was a dog, but I didn't know any better, I was riding having the time of my life. That machine sparked it for me. The first mountain sled I bought was a 99 RMK 700 with a 136, then a 2009 RMK 800 155, 2011 M8, 2016 Axys 800 163 and now a 2018 Sidewinder 162. Still have the M8, Axys and SW. Collectively have around 30,000km on all those sleds. Here's to another 20yrs everyone! 
It goes back further, some are no longer with us.
