this will be a report.. this might be long.. cuz i'm bored.

PLan A - BearPaw!

the trail of a thousand tears leads to Exselsior (elixar) as i like to call it.. this is on the other

side of the valley from BearPaw, the intended destination (plan A). arriving at shortly after 8 at the

unload we found our selves gto be the only sledders pointed towards bearpaw..  unload, gear up, after a

bit of climbing up the road 4ft of snow was the norm, and the trail breaking had begun. shit we were

still on the road!! almost to the single track uphill thru tree battle we had come to an abrupt stop..
 shit!! Sled2Shreds kill switch started giving problems again.. he had thought it was fixed, but no,

still some issues.. after some tweaking and taking the whole switch apart she was running, but with us

still being the only folks out, the nerves were twitching on pulling the trigger to head up into

bearpaw.. after some wait time hoping for more folks to show up, we decided to head back down and

follow the Y in the road to Elixar ( the other play area up there) since we saw more sleds heading that

way and heard it was a mellower place..

couple pics from Plan A.. the road tho bear paw

the starting point -- the road leads to BearPaw

soon we stop for a breather to find the road ahead DEEEP!! never fead tho.. its flat enough

Further up the road here we find S2S trying to get his sled running.. pull pull, vrummm, chuggggg.. pul

pull.. same.. pull switch off, pull, vrumm! this was where we turned back for the road more traveled..

mistake!

PLan B -- folow the leaders to Elixar (Exselsior)

anyways.... someone slipped us some shitty info.. the trail of a thousand tears began.. quickly

catching up to the trail breaking party we soon found ourselves in a group of 10. all 2008 or newer

Arctic Cat MSleds (wich was cool!) what lay ahead was 2000 vertical feet spanning over about 2.5 miles

of deep tree'd out terrain, just to get up above and into the zones.. oh and did i mention 4 to 6 feet

of snow? untracked.. so the 2 hour trail breaking session begins, break trail wait for stucks, roll up,

and on and on we commenced.. someone told me this was real sledding. and well, its true.. to play as

the saying goes, you pay.. so the thousand tears, really was more tears of others than ours as we were

not the main breakers of trail, we just helped compact it down to make the hwy in.. your welcome! :)

a short stop in the trail break kprocess for some on mountain hifax repair..

after the long battle and many hisitant question. "shit, should we turn back?" "fuck what if we cut

right instead of left" "damn whats it gonna be like when we get there?" we broke free and up out of the

trees, at 1st glance "wow, this is what we came for?" so on we charge up through a mellow opened up

meadow section, yup! 4ft of snow was right and some epic snorkel caring began up to a stop point so we

could get a good look at this 1st zone.

the 1st glance of the zone shows a few tracks and just the 1st few folks of the trail breaking party

starting to get into it.

regroup, more zone.. we have arrived!

somewhere looking into the direction to which we came.. later this lower zone we destroyed.. whoohaw!

ok so enough stargazing.. lets fuckin kill this zone.. here sled2shred take my camera, we need some

prove of the powder.. and damn it was deep!!!

so he has the cam and 1st thing he does is turn around and spot this double up duo bombing up the hill

and saying.."fuck yeah!" these double up doers fuckin killed it! together on the sled.. like destroyed

everything they road over..

and then i took my turn at destruction..

becoming my favorite snowmobile trick fast! downhill destroying!

after some more zone destroying, we headed up to a knob up top to take a gander over the other side

into some of the back side valleys.. holy smokes! there is a shit ton more terrain out here and even

more than we can see.. we didn't have a whole lot more time to explore so we breaked here for a few

moments..

soon we ride back down and headed over to the lower meadows which no one was riding and continued the

destruction, no pics here as the light was starting to turn flat and the snow was startiong to come

down again in that puking type manner we like to see.. couple good stucks later we compiled our

belonging, had a short brreak looked over the upper zone and headed out.. back down the trail of a

thousand tears, which now heading down should be called "the trail, its like butter going down" still a

long ass single track technical ride out.. fun!

the last look at the upper 1st zone

So, recap.. plan A.. no go! plan B GO! was it worth it? yes.. did we ride snowboards? no.. did we bring

them? yes.. really it was to deep and after all the work getting to the zone. just waaaay to much more

work to setup for rides.. next time! but next time we are going to bearpaw.. cuz now i know the trail

in to bearpaw is not the trail of a thousand tears that the Magic Elixar delivers..

P.S.  soar as heck today! from our stucks. (no pics, sorry)  stucks happend and a couple were over the

bar we wents.. gotta love unstickin sleds in 4 ft of powder

good day tho, the exploration factor was epic.