by Lewis McLeod Sterling Mountain is located in northwestern British Columbia, approximately forty miles north of Terrace on Highway 113. The main trails are maintained by the Skeena Valley Snowmobile Club, along with two cabins. This year, it has been a snowmobiler’s paradise, with somewhere between twelve and fourteen feet of snow at the second cabin [...]
As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same. Last year’s Snow Shoot in West Yellowstone afforded us some of the best snow conditions in years. So this year, as the season progressed and the snow was slow in coming I was thinking we might be in for another poor [...]
The OHV community joins together today in mourning the loss of one of its greatest activists. On Thursday, April 5th, 2012, Adena Cook–one of the original founders of the BlueRibbon Coalition–passed away. Adena Cook Adena will be sorely missed, both by those that knew her, and by the recreation community to whom [...]
It’s been unseasonably warm at the tail end of this winter and it’s easy to get spring-fever. While most of us didn’t have much riding time, our sleds have gotten a year older. If you didn’t get a 2012 snowmobile last season, now is a great time to stake your claim on a 2013. The [...]
You might remember some time ago we did a little makeover on our Yamaha Attak. One of the areas that we addressed was the seating position that in our eyes has you sitting too low. With the help from our good friend Kent Teslow from A-Plus Upholstery, we came up with a fantastic upgrade for [...]
There’s no doubt that it has been a tough year for snowmobilers and anyone who has a business that requires snow to be profitable. But this past weekend we had an opportunity to spend some more time in upper Minnesota at the Iron Range. For me personally it was very therapeutic. The weather was beautiful [...]
For 2013, Polaris is celebrating and breaking out the champagne on it’s very successful previous season. It appeared that Polaris could do no wrong as the engines were all working well, the new suspensions were the best in the business and the new chassis designs were both lightweight and very strong. For once, everything seemed [...]
For the 2013 model year, Arctic Cat will be co-branding their Youth 120 model snowmobile with the Yamaha Motor Corporation. Arctic Cat will manufacture the Yamaha SRX 120 in their Thief River Falls, MN factory per Yamaha’s specifications, but the snowmobile will be based off the popular Arctic Cat Sno Pro 120 platform. Arctic Cat’s [...]
Yamaha faithful can be content that not much has changed for 2013. For Yamaha’s 45th Anniversary, they have pulled out a few stops with the release of the new Nytro XTX 1.75 a few weeks ago, but is that all Yamaha has in store for 2013? Not quite. YOUTH To start with—and as a total [...]
Last year Arctic Cat went all out and introduced two brand-new platforms; the ProCross and ProClimb chassis. This year Arctic Cat continues to build on those chassis by adding a couple new models and refining their lineup. Technology Recap The new chassis are derived from a pyramidal design, and while there is an argument about [...]
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