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Angle blade and run the length if you can, if you get large amounts of snow frequently and are able, pushed it WELL off each side of the driveway because it will build up making it more difficult to plow as winter drags on. Of you don't get it far enough off your driving lan will become narrower and narrower as winter progresses.

I know a gal that is a Veterinarian that works for the Fish Wildlife and Parks, I kind of put her on the spot regarding Grizzly Bears and asked her what her thoughts were about people hunting them. She didn't even hesitate when she said, and I quote, "If they had people hunting them, we (FWP), would have to kill a lot less of them" she said "There are way too many of them and they need to learn respect and fear of humans again, it's time to open hunting season on Grizzlies again." The tree huggers would absolutely flip out but it is getting bad in certain areas around here, and areas in Wyoming and Idaho. Same thing with the Wolves their population exploded when they reintroduced them into Yellowstone Park, they have decimated the Elk population. They finally delisted them and opened a hunting season on them, it is helping some but there are so many it's going to take a while to get them back under control, same needs to happen with Grizzlies, they were never a problem until the greenness got involved.

I have an ap called onX offroad, it runs about 30.00 a year but is well worth it as you are not using a separate device, uses your cell phone and you can save areas prior to riding on your phone then go to that area offline and record your rides, mark stopping points etc. They also have a hunting version I believe. They are based out of Missoula Montana, I believe, my nephew works for them, is the web page designer. Pretty cool ap works well, in our area we have trails that shut down certain times of the year, when you click on that trail it tells you what dates it opens and closes so you aren't riding illegally when you're not supposed to be. Might work for some of you guys. https://www.onxmaps.com/

Very cool video! I'm too much of a wuss to put my machines through the paces in mud, I hate cleaning them up. Wouldn't be bad if the wife came out and helped,🙄 she just gets on turns the key and gets it dirty. And........POOF!!! The next time she gets on...........it's squeaky clean, hmmmm.......that was easy. 😄 Nice King Quad, Suzuki's are pretty bullet proof machines. Kind of you to get the 90 for your niece she'll have a blast. Don't know much about the era of the one you're working on, I just know Suzuki made a tough machine. We don't have parks we ride in here in Montana. We have access to Forest service property, 17 million acres worth and BLM property, (Bureau Of Land Management) 8.3 million acres worth of that as well, not that we have trails on every acre of those properties but there are thousands and thousands of miles to ride in the Western half of the state. We used to be able to ride the trails just by having a permanent offroad registration sticker but 2 years ago they started making us buy a trail sticker for each machine that is good for 2 years, mine expire at the end of this year, so will have to get 2 new ones on January. $20.00 for 2 years, not terrible, more of an inconvenience than anything. We have quite a few trailheads within 20-30 minutes from our house, and often when we're out, very rarely see anyone on the trails. The only drawback is we have limited times that we can ride, beings we are at the altitude we're at, some of our trails don't open until the middle of June and some close the middle of October, others December 1st. Too much snow, if they open them up people will tear them to shreds then they become very dangerous. And some of them are fairly technical even when they are bone dry, a wrong move and you can slide off a trail and drop along ways before stopping, so a bit unnerving at times when we get caught in the rain or come to an icy or snowpack trail in early spring on the ones that do open. I feel pretty blessed to live where we do and to have the freedom to ride on our local forested mountains. Here's a couple of pics of my machines, I'll personal message you with some other pics that I've already posted on this forum, don't need to bore anyone with repeat pics.

Any pics of your machines or area you ride? Gotta be some pretty area there.

I think they're a useful tool when used properly, but agree they have not helped our society one bit.

Welcome, I am guilty of not posting here as often as I should, busy life. I don't do Facebook and don't plan on it, my wife is always staring into her phone, annoying! Hope you can find what you're looking for here. Sorry but I can't help you, I'm a Can Am guy.

Had the privilege to get out both days this weekend, weather was fantastic. Was able to take my oldest brother out to an area he hadn't been to yet, and was thankful that we got to spend that time together just the two of us. I did ask some others to go but they were unable to make it so it ended up making a special day for us. His health is not the greatest so will definitely treasure the time and memories of this outing. Was also able to finally link up with my neighbor and some friends of theirs and take them on one of our favorite trails today. They seem to be gone most weekends over the summer so has been tough to connect over the past 4 years since they bought their Razors. They seem to stick pretty close and go riding and camping together most weekends. With fall setting in and it dipping into the high 20's and low low 30's at night, our camping season is coming to a close. Still in the 50's - 70's during the day but pretty chilly at night. They had a free weekend so we were finally able to take advantage and get out. Today confirmed for me, once again, why we haven't moved to the sidexside realm yet. We were going to ride on one trail, and even though they have 50" machines. The trailheads have huge rocks, posts, or arched cattle guard type gated areas that are exactly 50" apart. This keeps the larger sized SxS's, jeeps and other 4 wheel drive vehicles off the trails and from getting torn to shreds. My wife and I drove our ATV'S through and friends attempted to do the same. Even though the posts were 50" apart and perfectly plumb, the ground was sloped side to side causing the fenders and door area to lean too far to the side and would have scratched the entire side of the machine as he drove through. He couldn't even get the front fender flair through with out it getting scraped and gouged by the wire of the fence wrapped around the posts. So had to change plans and go different route. Still ended up being a terrific day and they had a great time riding in a new area. No SxS for us in the near future!!! Here's some pics from both days

In retrospect it wasn't terrible, I think being late in the day played a big factor. We were in a strange area and my wife wanted to be out of there before dark. So maybe felt a bit rushed an earlier start might have been better.

Took a ride yesterday, thought we'd try a different area out of the valley. Had been talking to a guy I've been working with and he told me about an area 100 miles from us. We decided to check it out and drove over there, we got a pretty late start from home and ended up at the staging area around 4 and on the trail/road about 4:15. Should've done a bit more research about the area itself. It was more of a jeep road than a 4 wheeler trail. We met a full size Hum Vee pickup coming down along with a couple of other pickups. Starting out the "road" was pretty much like any other forest service road to an atv trailhead except there was never any trail head as it was not a 50" wide trail. It just continues to deteriorate to probably one of the roughest, bumpiest, rock filled excursions we've been on in all of our 6 years we've been riding. The area was nice enough in that the forest is nice and healthy with lots of trees and normally we would've enjoyed exploring a new area but the roughness of the road made it somewhat unpleasant to ride. Maybe part of it was the fact it was laten in the day but my idea of a trail ride is not 1-5 mph most of the way. We just expected it to get better and it didn't. There was a loop and bt the time we finished the loop we had no interest in taking the spur up to the lake. Some folks might have really enjoyed it by was really not the kind of riding we enjoy, maybe if it had been an early morning ride we'd have felt differently. So we'll chalk that one up to experience and probably not do it again. Plus it's very very smoky.

Have seen evidence🤣

On the forum, used to be able to load multiple photos so u guess wondering if that was changed. Thanks

Is it just me or anybody else having issues maybe more than one picture? There seems to be a size limit on files, at least for me anyway.

Hey Henrik, glad to have you here, always interested in hearing from riders from other countries. What and where they ride, and what the restrictions are for where you ride. My name is Tracy we live in the Northwest part of the U.S. in the state of Montana. Very relaxed regulations where we ride, we have all sorts of Forest service trails to ride and since we live in the Rocky Mountain range, our trails give us spectacular views and scenery took at. Would love to see some pics of your machines and areas that you ride. We have newer machines, 2016 and 2019 Can Am 570 Outlander Max's, if batteries go, we're stuck😁. Looking forward to seeing some pictures.

Both of us achey, no fever, low energy, wife lost her taste and smell, both have a lingering dry cough. My (in June) 91 year old Mom had it was down like we were for a few days is doing fine. She refuses to wear a mask as well. Have had waaaaay worse, we wouldn't change anything we've done. YES it is our right, and I keep going back to: If the mask makes such a huge difference and keeps everyone so safe why should me NOT wearing one bother you?

Wonder why almost 1/2 of the CDC and FDA employees are refusinh to get the vaccine and Fauci and Marks dont know why?

"Have fun, I'm done with this thread." "I'll follow the sheep that can think for themselves. I'll leave it for you to follow the Judas goats." Hmmmm.....thought he was done with this thread, hope that works out well for him. Wife and I both just finished up with our bout with Covid, can't say it was pleasant, but as the "flu" goes I've been waaay sicker. I won't change my thinking about it. As of yesterday our county health department lifted the mask mandate. It was a losing battle for local businesses, we should have the right to chose and people were chosing to stay away from businesses mandating face coverings. Take the choice away and might as well pin stars to our arms. Can you say "Show me your papers?"

Just keep on sucking the kool-aid like good little sheep.

And this. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccines-must-be-halted-immediately-renowned-toxicologist-tells-cdc

Here's some nice info! Oh please please pick me!!!!!

Sorry, there are 4 counties out of 56 that are requiring masks. No significant spiking.

No masks here, numbers continue to drop.........Hmmmmm amazing.

Just seems like you dont hear much about flu in the media these days.

Sorry missionaries in Turkey.