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Sweet backcountry riding is one of the primary draws for getting into snow sledding or powderboarding.  Mountain Sled magazine did a great feature on how to do that in style when they featured the Crystal Ridge development at Valemont. Getting easy(er) access to great riding is a passion of mine so I was so excited to read about what the great folks at Valemont Area Recreation Development Association have done.  Building an access road to the top of amazing terrain is the holy grail of snowmobile snowboarding.  It's worth a trip to their page just for the amazing sled skiing...

Gotta love the deep stuff... when there is snow out there in plentiful amounts, life make so much more sense... Here is the first video we love... Kootenay Influence Ep.5 January 17th from Dylan Siggers on Vimeo. First off, this is a very simple video... one go pro, one song, 2 camera angles... so why does it work? Tougher still, even though there is tons of snow, the light isn't great... so how did a good video get created? I think it's the framing... even with the bad light, that is countered by the footage having the skier square in the...

Number 1: Our first featured snowmobile race is the Volga River based cross country world championship... yes, I know it won't be in Russia until 2015, but how cool would it be to race up the Volga river!  They're only doing snowcross right now, but cross country is on the way! Number 2: The the Sault - what a place... paradise in the summer and winter, with beautiful countryside and fantastic lakes.  The International 500 is a great race, it gets the whole community out and the party is possibly the best part!  What's not to like about that! While...

2012 brought such a mixed bag to North America,  you can talk to snow machine riders coast to coast and it's like we weren't even on the same planet! Will 2013 be much better, lets hope so. The farmers almanac doesn't suggest much help for the west predicting dry conditons. At least out East is says there should be good cold spells with systems dumping some of the fluffy stuff. Only problem in that the farmer almanac is total BS so we can't trust it. Thankfully, other more scientific predictions state that a cold winter is expected... lets hope it's...

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.                    ...