We left Meekos today around 9 am, with about 4-6" of fresh snow over night. We set out for a 150 mile trip, supposedly, to Real Masse Lodge. We've been here a couple times in the past, and it's always one of our favorites.
Today's trails started great with fresh powder and good trails, then progressed to bad trails (bumpy) to great trails, to bad trails to good trails on our way in to Real Masse. Wound up being 185 miles according to my Ski-Doo.
Right now we are enjoying a great dinner in the dining room with full windows over looking the lake (it's dark right now, but we will be able to see the view in the morning over breakfast. It's always nice pulling into Real Masse after dark as the 2 story white clapboard lodge is nicely decorated with string red lights and always a festive feeling when you show up.
Today was pretty uneventful, actually. Now that our spot trackers are working, you can probably see it looks like we did a big zig zag. That was not intentional, just the way things go on the Darkside. I used to think when Craig and Ole named our group the Darkside Adventures there was some sort of other message in the name, I've come to find out it means the odds are we are going to arrive on the darkside of the day!
Which leads me to our NEW Trail Boss tomorrow... Junior Trail Boss Jamie has decided that he and his garmin can do a better job of guiding us. We are humoring him right now, but there not's a chance that he is moving from his 11th position of 13 on this ride!
Since not much for bloopers to report on today, might as well as introduce you to one of our new Darkside Riders. Kristina "Tina Bear" Young has been riding since she was 1-2 years old on the front of RS Young's snowmobile breathing in exhaust fumes and sniffing the carburetor fuel. She has progressed into quite an accomplished rider in her 25 years. She has mountain rode and high marked in Wyoming, and is extensively knowledgeable of the trails in northern lower Michigan. She has been eagerly awaiting her opportunity to do a saddle bag ride in Quebec with her dad, and is proving her mettle. She was riding today with out her gloves on, just using the handle bar muffs, and a couple guys made mention of this. That's when she proved she can hang with the guys!
Dinner is over, I am DUN writing for today.
Get down, get kinky.
Cheers,
Stick