It took 4 hours to change 2 of the rubber tracks on my Ranger Thur night in anticipation of trying to get out on Friday but it was going to depend on whether or not the road got groomed. I needed to get my truck out which was 13 miles inside of the barricades @ Fish Lake sno-park, not a good place for it with all of the snow we got, but I also had to get Jim who had been waiting to start work at Steven's Pass for 2 weeks and now was a day late, we thought we could make it in 2-3 hours. Well we started out @ 5:30 am and even though it was groomed it was still very soft, not what I was hoping for. We got to the truck and had to dig it out and then ended up towing it 11 of the 13 miles it had to get out and ended up taking us 7.5 hours and the worst part is that from the barricade to the garage the road had been plowed and scraped down to the pavement which didn't excite me at all not after spending the time to change the tracks the night before, the reason I had to change the tracks is because they had stretched and got cut up on icy pavement last year taking big chunks of rubber out of the tracks.
Because of the road condition I decided to stay out for a couple of days waiting for the next snow to arrive and cushion my ride and saving my tracks, it was supposed to snow Sun night, and that didn't happen, then it was supposed to snow Tues night and it did leave a dusting, just enough to make the roads slick.
I was getting restless not seeing home and what was happening here plus we didn't plan to be gone but 1 day which turned into 5.5 days. It was nice getting to spend time with some friends I haven't seen in a while, and had a great visit at the farm, but by Monday I was ready to be home. We left out this morning with white roads coming in but not enough to really help so we drove very slow until we got to the Sno-Park then we made pretty good time got home before 2pm just as the snow started falling. Bear & Peace had fun seeing everyone and meeting new people while they were in town but once we got home they really got happy, especially since the snow is firm enough for them to run across and not drop into like it was before leaving. They both ran home the last 1.5 miles down the road just to get here.
We were very surprised to see so much snow that hadn't been shredded like normal once the park is open especially with all of the snowmobile tracks coming out this way, very few boon dockers mostly trail riders. There is plenty of snow from the barricades @ Fish Lake to travel to Trinity or anywhere else out here. I also want to thank the groomers for grooming again after I pulled my truck out leaving some serious ruts in soft snow, so even though they groomed to Trinity Thur night, they came back to Basalt and filled in the ruts we made getting out, I'm sure the snowmobilers appreciated it too.
Even though we live in the middle of nowhere as most people think because we are surrounded by mountains and 23 miles in a snow park, there's No Place like HOME....
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too.
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