Vintage Snowmobile Races

j par said
A good friend of mine and I got a ride in one of those groomers about 5 or 6 years ago. We were at a very little known small ski resort in eastern Oregon called Anthony Lakes. It has 10 electrical hookups for RVs that are free and it's only open Friday Saturday and Sunday during the winter for skiing and snowmobiling. or I should say that's when the lifts in the restaurant is open. It's right at the base of the skiing slopes. I had my old motorhome(1973 executive as if it came off the showroom floor with a 413 big block Mopar) my friend and I went up early in the week and plugged it in and had our snowmobiles. The only people there were the crew that maintains the area and after they made a big track for us around the lake they invited us to go for some night grooming for the cross-country skiers. That was a real fun few hours I've never been in anything like that and then going through the forest at night and plowing the snow and grooming the trails it was really cool..
Here's a picture of the picture LOL in a collage on our wall..
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Sounds like a lot of fun. I was back east several years ago visiting some folks. Found out a ski resort was testing out the lifts, so we got to go for a ride. Was fall, so we were able to get some pretty awesome shots of the fall colors. Was the only time I was ever on a ski lift.

Unconventional said
Speedway racing on snow :steering: Looks fun to me

Track was actually ice. That had a gamblers race, one of the guys in the fast class was dialed in. In the 10 lap race I think he lapped everyone but the 2nd & 3rd place finishers. He looked like he couldhave taught some bike road racers a thing or 2 about hanging off...

Unconventional said
Reminds me of 3 wheelers of old on oval track. Right foot hooked on the seat, *** skippin' across the track, hand full of throttle and full lock to the right :lol:

Several of the sleds were not set up for the ice, they were berm shoting off the berm on the outside of the track. One of them obviously forgot to turn into the berm as the sled ended up outside the berm, the young lady racing it stood up, looking around trying to find it. May have the shots off of it.

Unconventional said
@inkjunkie Great photos

Thanks, I tried. With a bit of editing I should be able to come up with some decent images.

Once I got my gear set up it performed flawlessly in the cold. I have no idea how the settings on my camera body got so out of whack, I would have never set it up like it was. I was standing there, without my glasses on, trying to reconfigure the thing. One of these days I will remember to check everything when I first take it out of the bag..lol...