New Found Winter Freedom
We now have the first few rides on our own snowmobile under our helmets. The overwhelming conclusion for both of us was “let’s do more of this!”. No doubt in my mind that we will buy a second snowmobile so that we can ride together and journey a little farther, to the ditches, fields, and hills in the surrounding countryside. Our neighbours, who are from the area, have already offered to show us some of the good spots to go.
We have found that driving on the lake is bumpy, with hard packed snow. I am sure this is simply a result of the warm weather spell we had in January when there was some melt and settling of snow.
Running hot was an issue, with engine temp climbing well above normal. I put the scratchers down which helped. I went online and read some forums and this is not uncommon so I was relieved that the machine was simply acting normally. The next day after some overnight snow we ran in some fresh snow and temperature was normal.
If you have a look at a couple of the videos below, I realize for the hard core snowmobilers out there that these pics and videos are pretty unimpressive but I will go back to classifying us a Novice riders on a machine with far more power than either of us have ever ridden so we are starting off with a light thumb on the throttle.
