Wed.~Feb 2nd~ 2011
SNOW DAY, YES!!!
On one of those rare occasions in Northern VT. School was canceled today.
Supposed to get heavy snow and some wind already pretty chilly.
I had my (New to me) snow machine all ready to go other than registration, Pop Pop came down to pick me up and take me to his house and Riley was sick so he stayed home with Dad.
We went to the DMV in Montpelier and registered the machines, Pop had to do his also, he hadn’t been “trail riding” in a while.
After we finished we loaded up and headed North to East Ctaftsbury.
We had to stop and gas up the sled and get some 2 cycle oil for it along the way.
It was snowing steady but not extremely hard when we arrived at Pop Pops.
We unloaded the Phazer and started it to warm it up, but the throttle was frozen, so it took us about a ½ hr with a blow dryer to get that squared away.
Patsy scrounged around and found me an old Polaris Snowmobile Jacket and will continue to look because somewhere there is a Phazer jacket here as well.
Well we finally got ready to hit the trail and ride down to the village so Pop Pop could get his snowmobile club membership, there is no end to the paper work and money involved in riding these days.
Here is a picture of me started dressed and ready to go.
It was now pushing 3:30 or so when we finally left the store.
By now the snow was piling up and the trails were not very visible and you had to watch yourself or you could get pulled off into the deep snow and get stuck as seen in this picture.
We kept riding and busting drifts until we got over to the back side of Parker Pond and we turned around to head home to get out weekly dose of Pancakes, Berries, Whipped Cream and some of VT’s best Maple syrup.
We got home just after dark, I was a little tired, but happy, since this was my first trail ride driving my own sled all by myself and it was a very good day.
Looking forward to doing it again soon, so stay tuned.
“Dawg” Out
