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February 18, 2017 Sooley Cabin Sled Rip: (20 Photos)

20. Despite rain during the annual cabin trip a couple weeks ago, Winter 2017 is shaping up to be one for the books. With sub zero temps freezing up the ponds very well this year and a decent amount of snow on the ground we were ready to take advantage.

19. Its been a long time since we've had riding conditions as good as we had this past weekend. We had back to back blizzards on Tuesday and Wednesday dumping close to 70cm of snow, we were eager to check it out with the sleds.

18. Unfortunately some of the crew were injured or were tied up with prior commitments (yes I told them they had their priorities screwed up LoL), but Sooley, his friend Allison, his kids and I headed out to the Sooley Family Cabin to tear up some snow.

17. As expected, the cabin was well snowed in. Since we only planned to stay for the day we didn't plow the laneway, we parked on the highway. I unloaded Project Powertek REV while Sooley got the family stable of sleds running and we headed up the pond.

16. Maffer missed out on an epic day riding but his White and Black REV did not as Sooley put it to work ripping up the pond and logging some air time.

15. There was a ton of snow everywhere including the pond. The whole surface is peppered in drifts of varying size, ripping up the lake at high speed could get a little hairy!

14. Riding conditions were ideal, first there was a lot of snow, second is was wind drifted and fairly dense which provided lots of traction.

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11. Sooley, Allison and the kids had a grand time on the sleds and the inflatable tube.

10. Sooley even found time to plant a few lines.

9. Given the pond has well over 20" of ice even with the extra weight of the snow it was still very safe.

8. For lunch we headed back to the bunk house where Sooley made sandwiches and Kraft Dinner for the kids and had got their winter clothes dried out.

7. After lunch we headed back up the pond to make more tracks.

5. While Allison towed the kids on the tube, Sooley and I darted up to high waters to pound every drift and hill we could find.

3. It was the best snow conditions I've seen up there in years, one of the best since Maffer launched the Yellow Scandic off the potato cellar in 2004.

2. At nearly 40 years of age, there's not a whole lot that makes me excited like a child, but ripping up fresh powder on a backcountry ride does it for me every time.

1. I hope that whatever activity you found yourself at this past Saturday brought you as much enjoyment as $20 gas in my Skidoo did for me! It was an epic, off the chart day of riding. If it wasn't calling for rain on Sunday we definitely would have stayed overnight!

Cheers, MIKE