Skidoos are a zooming....
Winter time is here! YEAH! I seem to be the only one in my circle who is excited and eager for the snow to stay on the ground. Unlike the rest of you, when snow falls here, we do not get burdened with shovelling, but our vehicles, namely skidoos just love it. The more packed and heavy the snow is, the better. On Saturday and Sunday, we had an incredible amount of snow on the ground, and it seemed to keep falling rather steady until Monday. There was a little more today, but the wind had blown away some of the fluffy, light, unpacked flakes from the weekend.
People with older skidoos have been using them since that day, and ever day, I am more and more eager to take mine off the wooden platform where it has rested all summer. I keep resisting the temptation and telling myself that if the snow is still here on holiday Friday, I will break her out then. It has been hard to wait, but I keep saying, remember the ski rods!!!
Getting a skidoo was my best investment during my first year up north. I bought a second hand machine from a teacher who had left the year before at a good price, and then two summers ago, I bought a 5 month old machine from some place near Montreal and had it sent up via sealift. Last year was my first winter with my new baby, my 2005 Bombardier Expedition Sport 550 fan-cooled. See the picture below. She is SOOOOO comfortable to ride, and I cannot imagine going back to any old style machine now. I love the elevated sitting position even though it was tricky to get used to it last year. I felt like it was so tippy compared to my old machine, which had a much lower center of gravity. Now that I am used to it, I LOVE it!!! And is the reason why it is so hard to wait to take her out for the first frolic of the season!
People with older skidoos have been using them since that day, and ever day, I am more and more eager to take mine off the wooden platform where it has rested all summer. I keep resisting the temptation and telling myself that if the snow is still here on holiday Friday, I will break her out then. It has been hard to wait, but I keep saying, remember the ski rods!!!
Getting a skidoo was my best investment during my first year up north. I bought a second hand machine from a teacher who had left the year before at a good price, and then two summers ago, I bought a 5 month old machine from some place near Montreal and had it sent up via sealift. Last year was my first winter with my new baby, my 2005 Bombardier Expedition Sport 550 fan-cooled. See the picture below. She is SOOOOO comfortable to ride, and I cannot imagine going back to any old style machine now. I love the elevated sitting position even though it was tricky to get used to it last year. I felt like it was so tippy compared to my old machine, which had a much lower center of gravity. Now that I am used to it, I LOVE it!!! And is the reason why it is so hard to wait to take her out for the first frolic of the season!
posted by Gillian at
8:21:00 PM
6 Comments:
You are such a trooper-- and we have such different ideas of fun!!!! In fact, I have completely lost any idea of fun--- I think at your age I would have enjoyed that skidoo thingy--- i am enjoying you enjoying it though---- Looking forward to hearing about your first frolic----
That would be fun - and if you are down this way - I'll offer you a ride on my "Sea-Doo"!
JUST got home from my first frolic.... It was short though, I didn't want to wreck my baby and the wind over the past 24 hours has exposed some new little rocks on the trail. I did however succumb to the temptation of starting her up and moving her and my qamoutik over to my new house from my old house.
Can't wait for new snow now!
Seadoo, now that sounds kind of fun...
G.
Somehow I knew you would be frolicking with a skidoo in the very near future - even mentioned it a bit in my blog bemoaning our tiny snowfall :o) I'm glad you're having so much fun!
On another note - I have been fiddling with my template, and I wonder if you could pop over to it and see if I fixed the scroll problem you were having. I can't be sure from my end, 'cause I'm using Internet Explorer, on a windows-based PC :o) Let me know how it goes, please? Thanks!
~mikki
Sounds like a lot of fun.Years ago my brother in-law had one.I loved the feeling of freedom in gave me.
Take care, and have a wonderful week:)
I have never heard of a "cabboose" before.... but from your description I am guessing you mean a sled/trailer thing that can be towed by the skidoo... For trivia sake, that sort of sled thing that can be hooked to the rear is called a "qamoutik" in Inuktittut. (Pronounced- ha-moo-tik)
I have one, and you kind of need one to tow all of the camping equipment on overnighters. It is also useful for when we have school picnics since we load a bunch of ids in the back and then all go out to a nice spot for an afternoon of sliding and campfires... We usually do it once or twice per winter and is a GREAT time!
G.
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