Saturday, January 9, 2010

Wild ride on the snowcats







Any adventure with Bryan along is going to have more of a "wild" twist to it! That's one boy that is LIVING his life! After eating the guys decided it was time to take the snowcats out for a spin. Bryan had brought one of their snowcats up in the back of his truck, and we have our two (running, that is. #3 needs work). Bryan, Steven, and Tristan rode down to the lake and were racing out on the ice. The snowcat Tristan was on is the only one with a working speedometer and he was going 80 MPH when Bryan passed him! Turned out that at that speed something goes funky with the fuel filter and it slowed down and died. Steven got it started again, and he and Tristan switched machines. These pictures are as they were leaving. In the last one, you can see all 3 of them. Bryan (hard to see) is on the top of the hill, Steven is halfway up, and Tristan is at the bottom. Then it was just me and the dog and cats ("Bear" the dog and "Spare Parts" the cat. Don't know where the other cat, "Twitch" was), and the lingering smell of gas and oil, but it was quiet. It sounded like a racetrack when all 3 snowcats were sitting there idling!

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