5.   Well it's two weeks later and a fresh snowstorm presented an opportunity to take our 2nd snowmobile ride of the year. Sooley on his new 2009 Renegade 800r, Bill on his 2005 Yamaha RX-1, and I on Project Renegade left from Power's Road in the Goulds to check out some snow drifts on the fields in the area.

4.   There still wasn't enough snow down to cover rocks and stumps on most of the side trails, they would be pretty rough going. However we did manage to find fresh powder and drifts out on the fields, and the main roads were covered well enough to travel with ski carbides only clicking a stone here and there.

3.   We played around in a lot of the fields and later crossed over to Northern Pond Road via Chicken Farm Road which was in awesome shape. Bill recently upgraded his short track RX1 by installing a Hartman 136" extension kit and 136x15x1.5" Camoplast Intense track which was working awesome.

2.   Unfortunately our trip was cut short after my machine shut off and would not restart on Northern Pond Road. It turns out the oiler gear crapped out so my recently installed 583 motor melted down due to lack of injection oil. It's a shame since the 583 was working so well, so I'll reinstall my perfectly good 500 over the next week or so.

1.   Sooley got a chance to try his new Renegade towing easily pulling my sled back to the trucks. It was a slow ride, but quiet too!

Cheers, MIKE