Fatdaddy
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Swan hills has some great riding tons of trails and usually great snow. Elevations are a lot higher then people realize too. Around eagle tower area your close to 5000'
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Joholio
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My buddy said a foot of fresh this am south of Fox Vegas
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Hmmm. Won’t hit rocks
Fox Creek had an easy 2' plus anywhere off trail yesterday for the rally. There were times when the powder was hitting me in the chest, handlebars submerged. If Swan Hills got anywhere close to what Fox Creek got for the latest dump then conditions should be awesome right now.
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Go-Vertical
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But being swan hills, 5’’ feet of snow with no bottom is still asking for problems.
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You don't like buying and changing control arms?
Go-Vertical
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No sir I’ve done my share of that.
Mountainaddicted
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Any updates on snow conditions? Taking family out this weekend for family day!
slednk
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Trails are good .. u can feel everything underneath the snow on cutlines and what not ... has a bad crust that pushes ur sled to the bottom
Mountainaddicted
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Thnx for the update!
mxcollector
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Am wondering the same ?
Glory Hills Guy
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Sorry - no pics - technical difficulties lie with my iPhone battery! We made it out on Saturday (the 31st) and staged from km28 (weigh scale site west of Town) now lots of cut timber waiting to be hauled out and parked on the road with just 4 other rigs. Lots of room for everyone kids! Rode north from there staying on trails and seismic lines. Better snow than the past couple of years out that way (4-6 feet) - but not nearly as good as Swan used to get 3+ years ago and counting. Lots of recent logging activity in this area over the past 2 years. Areas with 6-8+ foot drifts in the past - this year just 2-3 foot drifts. Typical Swan Hills snow NO BASE. Your throttle -and track speed - is your friend as I told my son! Looking at the forecast it should be worth a ride again this weekend.
At the end of the day we headed south and west on Tamarack Loop. I think this will likely the best - least tracked up - area. Right now.
Cheers
At the end of the day we headed south and west on Tamarack Loop. I think this will likely the best - least tracked up - area. Right now.
Cheers
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I had heard earlier this year that Tamarack Loop was closed due to logging activity?
Glory Hills Guy
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I could have seen it being closed heading west out of the Townsite. Although there were lots of tracks heading out of Town into his are. The logging appears to be completed for the season. Certainly with April 15th coming they wont be doing too much more cutting this spring. They did maintain the old trail alignment through the new cutblocks. Somebody local might correct me but it looks like its also been groomed this season more than once. Regardless we dropped done from km28 and rode west on Tamarack Loop. It has been groomed this season and the logging activity was to the east (towards Town). There was no indication of closures. Very little logging west of the intersection of Tamarac Loop and Goose Tower trails.
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