We left Chibougamou to start the last 3 days of dirt riding. I had loaded a trackset which the RR indicated was very riedable by big bikes.
We'll it didn't go so well. The first error of the day was I has mislabeled the alternate. The easy alternate was a groomed gravel road you could drive a truck on. Then there was the track we were on. I think the real reason for diversion was so that B4 (Blasters' HP2) could get in her element and shine. Shine did she!
The trail quickly begins to narrow, and the panniers are now trimming the foliage as there is tracks. It's either an ATV or a snowmobile track, so you can't ride the center berm. However, the track has Blaster welling up thoughts about his trip back to Esker which was great fun.
It passes some nice rivers on good bridges
It passes some questionable bridges
Then we get to a washout. There is a diversion, but it will be tricky as it has a deep decent and hill climb on sand. Blaster gallops off with the HP2 and makes the trip look easy. Dorito machine not so much. After turtling twice, Blaster gets a free ride to the top on Dorito. Next up was Keiths R1200. He does well enough though the bottom of the sand trap, but then augers her in pretty good about 10M before rejoining the track. Infact, the bike is sitting on the telever and the skidplate but the time the rear tire augers in.
So, we push the bike over, turn it 90 degrees, fill the hole and she is free.
Joyed that we are now having a hoot, Blaster goes down the trail about 200 M, and thinks he is joking when he says :"ha, there's is another one". Well, damned if the next turn didn't have this bridge..
So we walk the diversion:
Then HP2 struts her stuff:
And Dorito makes Blaster work for it.Notice the signature butt wiggle at the top of the hill
And the R1200 wallows in the dirt again..
Soon enough the alt rejoins the main track. We follow the track for about another 20KMs, until we miss a turn. However, we all wonder why/how we missed it. It seems the good track now diverges into a billy goat track. We decide not to follow it. We try to find a alternate track, when we run into this cabin. It's somehow the only people we've seen all day.
Being in Quebec, they speak French. They invite us in to look at their wall map. They map is very, very detailed but it doesn't show any tracks that would get us into Giardarville. So we head back the way we came, on the logging fire road.
As we are heading back to civilization the rain begins. However, for the most part the high sand road it draining well. We've got about 30KMs before we'll need to dump in the extra fuel.
To be continued...
We'll it didn't go so well. The first error of the day was I has mislabeled the alternate. The easy alternate was a groomed gravel road you could drive a truck on. Then there was the track we were on. I think the real reason for diversion was so that B4 (Blasters' HP2) could get in her element and shine. Shine did she!
The trail quickly begins to narrow, and the panniers are now trimming the foliage as there is tracks. It's either an ATV or a snowmobile track, so you can't ride the center berm. However, the track has Blaster welling up thoughts about his trip back to Esker which was great fun.
It passes some nice rivers on good bridges
It passes some questionable bridges
Then we get to a washout. There is a diversion, but it will be tricky as it has a deep decent and hill climb on sand. Blaster gallops off with the HP2 and makes the trip look easy. Dorito machine not so much. After turtling twice, Blaster gets a free ride to the top on Dorito. Next up was Keiths R1200. He does well enough though the bottom of the sand trap, but then augers her in pretty good about 10M before rejoining the track. Infact, the bike is sitting on the telever and the skidplate but the time the rear tire augers in.
So, we push the bike over, turn it 90 degrees, fill the hole and she is free.
Joyed that we are now having a hoot, Blaster goes down the trail about 200 M, and thinks he is joking when he says :"ha, there's is another one". Well, damned if the next turn didn't have this bridge..
So we walk the diversion:
Then HP2 struts her stuff:
And Dorito makes Blaster work for it.Notice the signature butt wiggle at the top of the hill
And the R1200 wallows in the dirt again..
Soon enough the alt rejoins the main track. We follow the track for about another 20KMs, until we miss a turn. However, we all wonder why/how we missed it. It seems the good track now diverges into a billy goat track. We decide not to follow it. We try to find a alternate track, when we run into this cabin. It's somehow the only people we've seen all day.
Being in Quebec, they speak French. They invite us in to look at their wall map. They map is very, very detailed but it doesn't show any tracks that would get us into Giardarville. So we head back the way we came, on the logging fire road.
As we are heading back to civilization the rain begins. However, for the most part the high sand road it draining well. We've got about 30KMs before we'll need to dump in the extra fuel.
To be continued...