With the cold weather still hanging on and the lakes still frozen solid, Paul and I decided to get one last run in before he put the sleds away. I drove up to Pogger's on Friday night and slept over so that we could get an early start on our drive to Bancroft Saturday morning. We rendezvoused with two of his workers at Tim Horton's in Bancroft.
We drove to the snowmobile club in L'Amabe. The trails were still in excellent shape!
Some of the scenery along the way was spectacular as we headed to Denbigh.
Evan counted 8 deer along the way.
We had lunch and gassed up in Denbigh, then we headed South towards Weslemkoon. Without our guides from the last trip, we took a few wrong turns, but Pogger straightened us out.
This is a neat view of the north end of Otter Lake (where a lot of my ashes will go) from the logging road. I always knew there was a logging road at the top end of the lake, but never realized how close it was.
We headed past there to the trail that comes out on Weslemkoon right near Tanglewood Marina.
We ran across the top end of Weslemkoon and headed out through West Bay passing the Three Sister's Islands along the way. Very surreal to be passing landmarks you recognize from the water normally.
About halfway between Weslemkoon and L'Amabe we came to a clearing where this gentleman was standing with no snowmobile in sight! It turns out to be Merritt Woods old buddy Ron Hadley (whom we met the last time we were up here). He had gone off the main trail and buried his machine about 4 feet deep in the snow!
Paul, Chris and Nick all went back with him and managed to strong arm it out of the snow.
Our good deed for the day.
On the way back to L'Amabe, we passed Ron's daughter and son-in-law who had headed out to look for him after he didn't return back when they expected.
We covered 193 km. and had a great day! A great way to end the first season of my new hobby!
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