A Revy Sled Bum's Tale: Another Season with Lilduke

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Hey all I'm back in Revelstoke for the season to ride. For those who never saw my thread last season, here's what its about:
Basically I ride 5 or 6 days a week take pictures, and this year I'll be doing video's too and post them here. link to last years thread:https://www.snowandmud.com/snowmobile-chat-14/season-lilduke-85566.html?highlight=season+lilduke

Goals for this season are to: progress my riding, progress my training towards professional guiding, have a chit ton
of fun and not get killed doing it(safety first!)

I have a few sponsors for this season and may pursue some more as I expand my riding resume. So i'd
like to give a big thanks to Raptor Performance Shocks, Hard on Camera mount, Peaks Lodge and all my
friends that help me out with this or that.

But for the most part this comes out of my own pocket and its pretty expensive to do. I could go put a
pretty good down payment on some property out here, but this season I just want to ride....

I'm also always looking for good people to ride with, so don't hesitate to get a hold of me if you want to ride.
And If you are good with a camera and or have some good camera equipment I'd LOVE to ride with you
and would be more than willing to exchange some of my knowledge of the area in exchange for good pics!
Plus maybe some beers cause you'd be helping me out...lol

So took me 5 hour to get from Golden to Revy Last night, woke up this morning to pissing rain and a flat tire on my truck,,,wft
Now waiting on a tire, today is basically a right off. So no riding till tomorrow :( But the conditions don't sound all that great
today anyways, so I'm not that heart broken. Looks not bad up there right now though from town.

Any who this is my new thread and I'll be posting Pics and Footage ASAP!

Cheers and have a great season everyone!!

Dan Valentine AKA Lilduke

 

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Oh and here's a couple pics of my ride 2015 T3 163. So keep an eye open for it up on the hill..lol

Lil sluff my friend brought down on the 12th


 

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Damn flat tire!
And a new windshield?
I am sure all the wash board from chains and wet weather did not help the tire at all.

Pretty sure it was punctured by one of the thousands of bungee cords I ran over on the way out.
Oh well only took all day to get fixed...lol

Have some friends coming in tonight & Tomorrow is game on!
 

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HaHa love the thread title Dan. Look forward to following your adventures this season!
 

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New to Revy myself. Moved here a couple months ago. Looking for people to ride with as well. And I've been know to make a few Montage Vids in my days.
Names Dan as well, Dan Pesonen. I still have to work the winter tho, 9/5 shift in Ft Mac. So I get every 2nd weekend off. Maybe see ya at the thunderstruck premier tomorrow nigth. Look for a Blue RAM with Bandit Powdercoat decals on it and a single place deck in the box. That be me
 

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New to Revy myself. Moved here a couple months ago. Looking for people to ride with as well. And I've been know to make a few Montage Vids in my days.
Names Dan as well, Dan Pesonen. I still have to work the winter tho, 9/5 shift in Ft Mac. So I get every 2nd weekend off. Maybe see ya at the thunderstruck premier tomorrow nigth. Look for a Blue RAM with Bandit Powdercoat decals on it and a single place deck in the box. That be me


Cool, maybe I'll see you there:beer:
 

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We bailed on Revy this trip, heading to vale to chase fresh pow. I'll be back down there again on the 18&19 for a quick trip. Good to see your home again buddy lol.
 

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We bailed on Revy this trip, heading to vale to chase fresh pow. I'll be back down there again on the 18&19 for a quick trip. Good to see your home again buddy lol.

Yeah Vale sounds good right now. Guess I'll see tomorrow how the Pow is here, getting mixed reports. Some of the reports I'm hearing are saying its pretty good.
 

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Yeah Vale sounds good right now. Guess I'll see tomorrow how the Pow is here, getting mixed reports. Some of the reports I'm hearing from are saying its pretty good.


Yeah ah hopefully it's still good for the guys that are there. But Revy is an awful long drive from fort Mac to chance riding chit snow. That's getting old lol. We haven't done vale in years so it was a pretty easy decision to change plans. No secret once this weekends cold temps moves in in Revy it won't be half as good as valemount. Looking forward to seeing your ride reports tho !! :beer:
 

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Yeah ah hopefully it's still good for the guys that are there. But Revy is an awful long drive from fort Mac to chance riding chit snow. That's getting old lol. We haven't done vale in years so it was a pretty easy decision to change plans. No secret once this weekends cold temps moves in in Revy it won't be half as good as valemount. Looking forward to seeing your ride reports tho !! :beer:

Yea Valmount is probably a good bet. Its funny though that people think going to -20 will wreck the snow,, Its actually going to dry it out and make it champagne pimpin! haha
 
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Right on dude, looking forward to the updates. I might just take a season off, it's easier to live vicariously through you haha.

Have a safe season!
 

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Well today was quite the chit show, headed up with Eric and his GF kaylee. Eric just built a pimpin boost-it Viper; last night lol
So we get to the cabin and its having electrical issues. So he decided to head down and grab his spare sled while me and Kaylee
headed back to sugar bowl. We'll let me tell you it was fawkin cold!! (nothing like a lil frostbite to start the season!)
It was a highway to sugar bowl, hard crust snow(kyle valmount is looking pretty good haha) Snow in the trees looked awesome
but my riding partner today is 90lbs soaking wet, so decided against breaking trail in the trees haha ventured off by my self for
a little bit and found some untracked but it was pretty hard. Guys were getting stuck in it left and right not sure how though...lol

Finally Eric met up with us, went to the lakes. Ran into Niel and his new Boost-it doo(sick sled)
And then shutter down cause we were all FREEZING!

And then I managed to fawk my bumper loading my sled...FFS

chit show but an awesome time,, how could you not enjoy sledding!

Only took a few pic cause its fawkin cold

PS the T3 Rocks!













 

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Jealous!!! It'd be so cool to get in a full season of riding! Cya up there somewhere man!

Cheers

Thanks man, yeah it just a unique opportunity in life that I have a chance to do, so I;m rollin with it:beer:
 
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