We got even more snow here in the midwest over the last week, and during the Christmas break, I got to go play in all the white fluffy new stuff. It was perfect weather for a vintage ride. The trails were open and there was hardly any other sleds on them. Ahhhhhh. The great thing about vintage riding is all the people on the late model sleds have to look at you and give you a big “thumbs up” as you go by. Even Snowtechmagazine’s Kevin Bielke stopped one of our riders just to remind him to “go fast, turn left and look cool”.
One minor disappointment in that my sled I cleaned up for this years Live On Skis event is actually slower than the 1972 500cc TX I had for last years ride. Oh well, I still have some time to fix that.
We hope to see as many people as possible for Live On Skis this year. We have a special guest from the Make-a-Wish foundation in Forrest Hess. He’ll be riding with his family, and many of the vintagesleds.com readers have gotten together and put together a “dream list” of sleds for Forrest to take for a spin.
Early reports from International Falls, Minnesota, indicate a nice snow base and plenty of fresh new snow already – meaning the riding could be the best it has ever been, in a place where the riding is already great.