Who has Snow?

[Jstpssng]

True story. Bought my 94 Bearcat 340 as a Divorce gift to myself. Still fires up and runs like new.

My boss bought that same sled although I don't know what year it was. He claims that he never pulled the plugs out of it, for about 12 years. Then his brother borrowed it, fouled the plugs and put new ones in. He was PO'ed.

 

[Looking4new]

Beauty!! love it. I was snowmobiling long before there were "Trails" to ride on. We spent days going 10 miles ... now you can do it in half and hour on the trails. I think we had more fun back then working together to get ourselves unstuck lol!!

I remember those days quite well. We would run down the street to get to the lake, the cops would chase us in their cars. We would cut off through the bush and get onto the lake (Simcoe) then sit there about 100' off shore and thumb our noses at the cops. They couldn't take their cars onto the ice so we were 'home safe', until we had to go home after a day of fishing. That was well before the days of licensing and insurance. You run through the bush once and it was a track, twice and it became a trail. It might only be the width of a sled, but it was still a trail.

 

[Jstpssng]

Our first sled was a 1966 Arctic Cat powered by an 8 HP Kohler 4 stroke. It was all steel, painted red and had a decal of a polar bear on front.
Somehow my father and his friend got it into the living room along with the tote sled that my father welded up, and it was under the tree when we got up Christmas morning. :xmastree:resent:
It was about 4/10of a mile up the neighbor's woods road then down a power line to go see my grandmother; it was an excursion for 8 of us to pile on to ride over to see her.

 

[Thomas]

Another 2-4 inches snow today...starting to add up.

 

[Yamforlife]

I remember those days quite well. We would run down the street to get to the lake, the cops would chase us in their cars. We would cut off through the bush and get onto the lake (Simcoe) then sit there about 100' off shore and thumb our noses at the cops. They couldn't take their cars onto the ice so we were 'home safe', until we had to go home after a day of fishing. That was well before the days of licensing and insurance. You run through the bush once and it was a track, twice and it became a trail. It might only be the width of a sled, but it was still a trail.

I remember those trails one year we realized one of those trails went right over a neighbours overturned aluminum boat.......Opps ....:laughing:

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Cemetaries were popular thruways, it more than one headstone got damaged from snowsleds in the early days.

 

[oosik]

No added snow but the wx has sure turned cold. Drops to 20F to 25F at night and maybe as high as 40F during the day. I expect to see my little lake starting to get an ice cover soon.

 

[Doofy]

Our first sled was a 1966 Arctic Cat powered by an 8 HP Kohler 4 stroke. It was all steel, painted red and had a decal of a polar bear on front.
Somehow my father and his friend got it into the living room along with the tote sled that my father welded up, and it was under the tree when we got up Christmas morning. :xmastree:resent:
It was about 4/10of a mile up the neighbor's woods road then down a power line to go see my grandmother; it was an excursion for 8 of us to pile on to ride over to see her.

Great memories. My first new sled was also in 1966...10 hp Scorpion. Father gave it away while I was in boot camp.:confused3: He also gave away my old chevy panel truck, 63 Plymouth Valiant and the flywheel out of my HiPo 289. Either he was mad that I enlisted or thought I would be killed in Viet Nam. He never told me why.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
My friend's mother sold the hood off his '69 Camaro while he was away at boot camp. Granted it was dented up after he rolled the car a couple of times, but the hood vents were still worth much more than that and the engine ran fine. I don't know if they covered it or not.

 

[Looking4new]

We got another 4" last night. I plowed it this morning along with the 3 other driveways I do. Out at 8:30 and back in at 10:15

My first sled was a 1973 Yamaha 433 GP.

 

[Industrial Toys]

This stuff just won't go away. Maybe on the weekend they say. But then as you get closer, the predictions often change, bit by bit for the worst.

Cold and blustery today, with occasional snow showers.

We were cutting some wood on the weekend, and agreed it felt more like a January day!

 

[Doofy]

This stuff just won't go away. Maybe on the weekend they say. But then as you get closer, the predictions often change, bit by bit for the worst.

Cold and blustery today, with occasional snow showers.

We were cutting some wood on the weekend, and agreed it felt more like a January day!

Totally fed up with the Weather Guessers. Even with all their new satellites and computer models, they still cannot predict the weather reliably. Lately, our predictions change 4 or 5 time a day and none have even been close.

 

[Oaktree]

Even with all their new satellites and computer models, they still cannot predict the weather reliably. Lately, our predictions change 4 or 5 time a day and none have even been close.

Don't know how the weather patterns in Alaska are, but New England is notoriously difficult to predict. So many weather patterns converge here, and if the track changes a few miles it can make a big difference. Lots and lots of micro-climates too.
Where I live is in a "snow shadow" where coastal storms (ie-northeasters) don't give us much, the White Mountains block most of it. Seems the past few years we've been getting more of those.

Another 2-4 inches snow today...starting to add up.

Yeah, that's about what we got too. Not quite enough to be bothered to plow, but a bit too much to ignore. This time of year I lean towards "ignore"...builds up a nice base making it easier to plow later on, but you don't want that base to get too thick either. Ground here's not really frozen very deep yet.

 

[Doofy]

Oak tree, Our weather patterns seem to be almost identical. We have the Chugach Mountains to the south of us that tend to block the ocean-born storms from Prince William Sound (60-70 miles away, over the mountains). We may get 40" of snow a year while Valdez gets around 300-500" per year. Also, very temperate considering that the coldest temp here has been -43F(1943) when 35 miles up the road it has been -74F. Low so far this year has been -3F.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just curious. Is HAARP (sp?) still running?

 

[Doofy]

Just curious. Is HAARP (sp?) still running?

The Air Force gave HAARP to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks to continue research and testing. I never did wear a tin-foil hat.

 

[dragoneggs]

Wondering when/if we get snow, what my new personal weather station is going to record?

 

[oosik]

Because of the way I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 set I get warnings daily. "Ice warning" "frost warnings" "rain warnings" "saved daily weather data with no error notice" "snow warning" "wind warning" etc etc. I have a symbol on my Davis monitor that shows rain coming and another for snow coming. There is a "snow warning" - it warns of coming snow - - it does not measure rate of snow fall nor depth of accumulated snow.

The station does keep very detailed and accurate measurements and records of ALL measured weather data. As a matter of fact - one best pay fairly close attention of how much data you want stored on your computer. I have mine set to keep 25 years of wind, rain & temperature data ONLY. All the other data will be kept for a month and then dumped. The one terabyte hard drive on my computer will easily handle that much data. Besides - who expects to have the same computer twenty five years from now.

 

[Jstpssng]

Because of the way I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 set I get warnings daily. "Ice warning" "frost warnings" "rain warnings" "saved daily weather data with no error notice" "snow warning" "wind warning" etc etc. I have a symbol on my Davis monitor that shows rain coming and another for snow coming. There is a "snow warning" - it warns of coming snow - - it does not measure rate of snow fall nor depth of accumulated snow.

The station does keep very detailed and accurate measurements and records of ALL measured weather data. As a matter of fact - one best pay fairly close attention of how much data you want stored on your computer. I have mine set to keep 25 years of wind, rain & temperature data ONLY. All the other data will be kept for a month and then dumped. The one terabyte hard drive on my computer will easily handle that much data. Besides - who expects to have the same computer twenty five years from now.

I still have my same computer from 25 years ago... a pencil and pad of paper.

 

[oosik]

And - Jstpssng - a lot of the time your "computer" is a whole lot easier to understand.