Well, it's Monday immediately after our first major snowstorm in 2 years and once again the long-term forecast is doing us dirty. Tomorrow will see the start of another warming trend and a lot of rain which is going to wreak havoc on our dandy post-storm snow conditions.

Not wanting to repeat past mistakes and miss out on winter riding, I finished up work early, headed home and got the Argo ready for a run. During last week's warm weather evenings I got the machine serviced, tracks/windshield/convertible top installed. All that was left was zipping in the side panels which took very little time.

The trail at the end of our road is narrow, but this heavy wet snow weighed down so many trees and branches. Driving threw them cleared the snow and they popped back up, I had to stop twice to clear off the hood and roof of the machine. Thankfully I also took my mini chainsaw for deadfalls just like this one.

Of course, the ground was completely thawed out prior to this storm, riding today was a lot messier than my ATV ride 10 days ago as none of the puddles were re-frozen. Thankfully the Argo is pretty clean to ride in compared to the bike.

The Argo is a machine of slow and steady wins the race, in snow with tracks it will go just about anywhere!

Even in knee deep fluffy snow!

All in all a great little ride, and good shakedown run after track installation. I know this snow wont survive the coming week but at least I got to take advantage of it!

Cheers, MIKE

Copyright © 2011 Michael Smith