So over the last few weeks the Lake Tahoe area has seen all kinds of weather. It started with a pounding of over 6 feet, then some more storms bringing inches and feet. Riding was bottomless, deep, and gnarly. Then the rain came…………. usually I hate rain, but it actually made for a killer base. It packed down all that fluff and now we have great riding above 7,000. On Tuesday I counted 13 sleds at Donner Summit, yes all people we know. The good thing is that it kept snowing up high so there was fresh pow on top of old pow. We went out and rode all day, some came back early, some came back after dark, all in all it was a dope day and about every half hour I would say “I can’t believe how good it is”. I am looking out the window right now at rain at 6,000 feet. I hope the temps drop because where my mail box was buried, it is now a few feet above the snow. Weather report says higher temps, but I did see something out by Hawaii building, so I am hopeing that it will be a big storm and burry us all again.
With the Rain that is falling, it provides time to work on the sleds to prepare them for the season. So far I have swapped a track, put on RSI bar/riser full kit, Team jack shaft conversion with Team roller secondary, serviced clutches and changed some springs, ramps, and weights to make my xp 146 absolutely rip! I went back to stock A-Arms, and so far I am loving how she rides in the trees. I can’t wait til the next ride!
The AA annual night ride is coming up and looks like it will be Saturday January 1st. There will be a proper flyer and post under the events page soon. Hope to see lots of people out there, its a great ride, from either the cotton wood in Truckee, or the top of HWY 267, we ride to Tahoe City for refreshments and hang out, then back on the sleds to the trail head. Last year we had over 20 people, and I hope it will grow. We provide a good deal on rental sleds (1 or 2 seaters). If anyone needs to rent one for the night please contact me. Duncan Lee 775-233-7417.
With the money booter at 80 ft, and a rythem section of two 50 footers and a 60 footer, the boys were flying all over the place. This year we put in a hip jump that looked like it was around 60 plus and there were sleds sideways all day off that thing.
Around mid afternoon the sled count was over 100 and people were enjoying the spring Sierra sun and sledding. The first day was great and only a few wrecked sleds and broken bones. We heard there was a broken collor bone, and dislocated knuckle. Not bad for an open track of jumps these size. Once the day got going it was non stop action. There were a few boondock contests, which Luke Stephens out of Bear Vally CA won on his Ski Doo 154 race machine. As well as some killer hucking and even some drag racing. Charles was holding the drags with his Polaris dragon turbo, and nobody could step to his speed. At one point Randy Sugihara towed a skier into one of the gap jumps, that was awsome, with out injury they both made the gap and people were fired up.
Sunday started around noon with everyone moving pretty slow. The snow was wet and slushy and getting intresting on the jumps. Ken Evans and Shane Kelley did some work on the money booter and then started hitting it a few times. Shane turned to me and said “yo D, my timing is a little off today……” which I took lightly. Then after a few minutes he came into the money booter, the day before he was making that jump look like a cake walk, he launched and was imedeitely sideways and didn’t look good. He came up just a little short and all jacked up. He was flung from his sled and both cartwheeled down the landing. The crowed was silent. Shane broke some ribs, had a contusion on his chest, brusied his kidney, and poped out his shoulder. He walked away and even got on the mike
There was also a doubles race, the crew from Bear Valley was intense and they really wanted a doubles race, so it went down and ofcourse Luke Stephens won that! What a great day to end the weekend of Huckfest! See you all next year!
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