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 Topic: Southern Boy’s Miss Half the Action!Posted: February-01-2007 at 6:04pm |
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scottb that sounds great, thinking about going soon. We usually stay in Baraga for a week and sled from there all week in all directions.
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scottb
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Posted: February-01-2007 at 1:33pm |
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I live in the western Chicago suburbs. We dropped the sleds in Watersmeet on Sat morning. Spent Sat night in Baraga, Sun night in Houghton, and came home on Monday. I would say 80% of the trails were pretty good, and the logging roads were all good. |
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reidp
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Posted: February-01-2007 at 12:56pm |
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Who says we miss half the action down South? Heck, it only snowed 1" in the early hrs this morning and it shut everything down. So we all stayed home and played. Here's a clip of Boaty starring in "Death of the Ugly Snowman".
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jbear
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 10:30pm |
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Thanks for the invite, Rob but I think I have to wash my hair or paint a closet or....whatever. Nice of you to ask tho. How about you just come down here and we'll boat?
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 10:07pm |
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Thanks for the invite Rob. I might enjoy that for a week, but not more. Going to try to get the boat in the water before the weeks over and spin it a bit.
Also, those south bend weather forcasters always seem to call for about twice as much as you end up getting. What's their deal? How about Irish basketball? |
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 9:18pm |
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scottb where you from, I see you mentioned sledding in the UP, how were the trails?
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 8:19pm |
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boat doc, j bear, you remind me of them boys down there in North Carolina, Im working in a t-shirt and they were in carharts huddled around a Kerosene heater
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 7:55pm |
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You guys should come up to Northern Indiana this weekend.....forecasting overnight lows down to -10, plus we've had 12 inches of snow in the last 48 hours....calling for another 6-18 inches by Monday. Come on up!! 
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 6:35pm |
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Dr,
Sure feels hard when your footin' on it!! |
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 6:31pm |
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jbear & dude ;
water ain't sposed ta git hard..........bpat dr |
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Posted: January-31-2007 at 1:28pm |
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Just returned from a weekend of snowmobiling in the UP. What a long drive. It's bad when it's too cold to take the boat out and you have to drive 8 hrs to find enough snow for the sleds.
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Posted: January-30-2007 at 9:38am |
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j, we had the same thing a couple weeks ago. The news guys were going nuts. You'd think freezing temps were going to do to us what Katrina did to N.O.
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Posted: January-30-2007 at 12:11am |
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HAHAH oh god I think those might be a couple of the best posts I've seen on this site not in any way related to boats... Nate |
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jbear
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Posted: January-30-2007 at 12:05am |
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Dude: Cold here; tonite lows in the 30's. You should see the people hit the panic button.
john |
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 11:02pm |
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ice is only good for cooling things here too. I'm getting tired of rain though. More rain tomorrow. Haven't skied for 16 days.
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jbear
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 9:15pm |
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Why would ya wanna drive on your ice anyhow? Then it is kinda dirty when you put it in your Beam.
Down here we say your ice is for coolin' things down, not for sliding aound on. john |
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 8:18pm |
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I never knew it was illegal. I have a buddy here that's a Deputy on the local Sheriff's department that put his '04 GMC P/U throught the ice on the river. It went down slow enough that when it started sinking, he opened the door, stepped out, and walked to shore. Insurance picked up the tab. Beleive that non sense?
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 11:51am |
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Kurt,
Fourth Lake in Lake Villa, I have snowmobiled across that lake myself many times, most of it is relatively shallow, it is a 8hp max lake surrounded mostly by Forest Preserve. Did you know in Illinois it is Illegal to drive a car/truck on lake ice? Read that in the article about the 16yr old. |
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 9:41am |
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Saw on the news that a news van was on the eagle river in WI and fell through. There are many incidents every year from snowmobiles to cars and trucks that people take out on ice that isn't thick enough. A few thousand dollars later their totaled vehicle is recovered.
CQ, what lake was the one that didn't get out? Definitely has been a milder winter with inconsistent temperatures. |
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Posted: January-29-2007 at 9:27am |
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Hey Dude,
I have since been out on the lake with the Quad, it is only about 6", had a PFD on the Quad with me. Sadly there are usually fatalities in our area each year, this year has been strange in that we usually have ice by early December not Mid Jan? Last week at a nearby lake 16yr old went thru on a snowmobile, didn't make it out, (3) sleds went thru on another lake (the chain) however all riders got out. |
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Posted: January-28-2007 at 11:12pm |
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back to the ice. Anyone fallen through yet this year?
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jbear
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Posted: January-26-2007 at 10:04pm |
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What are you retired from PLBC? I thought I looked young when I got to retire but you got me beat.
87BFN: Sounds like the way they do it at my bro's Ford plant. john |
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Posted: January-26-2007 at 9:55pm |
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not retired just lucky. I carry a walkie, boss calls when he has a break down that needs my attention. Sometimes I have free time sometimes I don't.
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Posted: January-26-2007 at 12:05pm |
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jbear is right on, I am retired already.
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Posted: January-26-2007 at 11:59am |
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God, I would say. Must be nice!!!!
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Posted: January-25-2007 at 11:07pm |
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Backfoot: I believe that none of thes guys have real jobs. They just sit at the computer all day on C/CFAN.
john |
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Posted: January-25-2007 at 1:56pm |
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Just a minor? I thought you'd be good for the full 5 minutes.
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Posted: January-25-2007 at 1:33pm |
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LOL  . No, Brad, I had the difficult job of protecting Kelly for the day. It was a grand opening at Sears. She was wicked cool to hang with.
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Posted: January-25-2007 at 11:27am |
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Ken- Did you bust her for shop lifting at Sears?? |
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Posted: January-25-2007 at 11:14am |
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Nice, CC on ice!
Called for Spearing, 2 minutes in the Box. |
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