Howard Briggs says the event at The Last Resort is coming together nicely. 
It has been snowing all week with feet of new snow at the resort.

There will also be a antique and vintage snowmobile ride on Sunday.
Everyone is invited, antique, vintage or newer. 

The resort has a restaurant, gas station, store, motel, meeting room,
sliding hill for the kids, and a repair shop for our use.

 If you missed your chance to get a room at the resort,
The Best Western in Cle Elum has a rate for sledders.  
$109.00 for two adults on weekends, $99.00 for week days.

Call for reservations (509) 674 0200, or visit their website: www.snowcaplodge.com

Contact Howard Briggs hjsnobiz@hotmail.com; (509) 674-7229

Not every ride that we go on is on our antique or vintage sleds.

Ed, his friends Todd and Mike, and Kevin spent part of the weekend riding Blewett Pass.
Then drove to Whistlin’ Jack Lodge by Naches to spend the night, and ride the
eastern side of the Cascade Mountain Crest.

It was a GREAT weekend!
This is definitely a must do again next year.  Maybe on vintage?

Click this link and watch Todd climb and High Mark at Naneum Meadow

Here is a link to watch Ed give the same hill a try

The above link has very Important Time Sensitive Information from the U.S. Park Service about Access to Yellowstone National Park 

National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior

Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 31, 2012 12-005
Al Nash or Dan Hottle (307) 344-2015

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE
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Work Continues On A Long-Term Winter Use Plan For Yellowstone
Public Open Houses Scheduled in February

The National Park Service (NPS) continues working on a long-term plan to
guide winter use in Yellowstone National Park. The NPS and the park will
host a series of open houses in February during a scoping period for that
plan.

In May 2011, the NPS released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for public review on the potential effects of the plan for motorized
oversnow travel in the park. After months of public comment and review,
the NPS decided additional study was needed before putting a long-term plan
in place. While the final plan is being developed, the NPS chose to manage
snowmobile and snowcoach access in the park this winter under the same
transition plan used the previous two winters.

The NPS is preparing a Supplemental EIS to create a final winter management
plan to take effect with the 2012-2013 winter season. Among the subjects
identified for further analysis in the Supplemental EIS are requirements
for entry into the park by 10:30 a.m. daily, sound and air quality
computer modeling assumptions, "best available technology" standards for
snowcoaches, the impacts of Sylvan Pass avalanche hazard mitigation, and
opportunities for park access by non-commercially guided snowmobile groups.

The first step in developing the Supplemental EIS is to ask for further
public comment and suggestions on potential approaches to winter use,
including any additional issues not yet discussed. This process, known as
public scoping, will officially open for a 30 day period upon the
publication of a Notice of Intent, which is expected to appear in the
Federal Register in the next few days.

The NPS has released a draft range of alternatives for public review and
comment during scoping. The alternatives cover a wide range of possible
approaches to winter uses in the park.

The "no-action" alternative would eliminate all snowmobile and snowcoach
travel in the park after the end of the current winter season. A second
alternative looks at continuing winter operations at the present temporary
limits, plus analysis of limited access for non-commercially guided
snowmobiles. Under a third alternative, park roads from West Yellowstone
and Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful would be plowed to allow
commercially operated, wheeled vehicles into the park. Also under
consideration is a proposal to phase out snowmobiles and allow motorized
entry by snowcoaches alone. This alternative includes analysis of closing
the park's east entrance over Sylvan Pass to motorized oversnow use.

Two other draft alternatives would take a new and different approach to
winter use: Regulating park entry according to the number of "sound events"
created by snowcoaches or guided snowmobile groups, rather than by specific
numbers of snowcoaches or snowmobiles. One of these alternatives also
assesses the effects of two-week 'shoulder seasons', where entrance to the
park during the first two and last two weeks of the season would be via
wheeled vehicles or rubber-tracked snowcoaches.

Additional details on the Supplemental EIS, the draft range of
alternatives, and an electronic form to submit comments can be found on the
NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website at
http://parkplanning.nps.gov/yell, or by writing to Winter Use Supplemental
EIS, P.O. Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190.

Written comments may be submitted through the PEPC website, in person at
either the open houses or at park headquarters, or by mail. Comments will
not be accepted over the phone, by fax, or e-mail. All public comments
must be received or postmarked by midnight MST 30 days from the beginning
of the comment period.

Park staff members will analyze the scoping comments and other additional
information as they refine the draft alternatives and prepare the
Supplemental EIS. That new document is expected to be released for public
review and comment in spring 2012. The NPS intends to have a final
Supplemental EIS, a Record of Decision, and a long-term regulation for
winter use in Yellowstone in place before the mid-December start of the
2012-2013 winter season.

- www.nps.gov/yell -

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                    Get Together Riding Events 

We had a GREAT ride from the Taneum Sno-park to Quarts Mountain.
It was a 40 mile round trip.  The 1971 Montgomery Ward recoil broke in the parking lot.  No biggie it could be started with a rope.  But, then had to be towed back because it would not restart after being turned off to visit with friends.  

All of the other sleds made the trip without an problem.

 

Curious what a Ski Daddler Wide Track sounds and rides like?
Here is a video:

Click Here to view

We also discovered that a 1968 Ski Daddler Wide Track 22 with the MAG 540cc engine
will get you at total of 39 miles on a full tank of gas. 

One mile short of a round trip to Quarts Mountain and back!

 On Saturday February 18th the Mt Misery Snow Drifters from
Pomeroy Washington hosted their 

10^th annual

Vintage Snowmobile Show and Barbecue at the
Rose Spring Sno-park in the gorgeous Blue Mountains

There was a vintage snowmobile show, and barbecue. 

We will post pictures soon!

Vintage Ride in the Spokane Area!

Three generations of Bergstresser's went on a vintage ride. Ray, his eldest son Kevin,
 grandson Billy, and second son Troy. 

Ray was on his 1977 Sno Jet/Kawasaki, Kevin on his 1980 Trail Cat 440,
Billy on the black and green cat, and Troy was on his 1976 Rupp Nitro 440. 

There were hot dogs cooking on the Nitro pipes!

With a little ingenuity, a stick held the track tight enough to ride about 8 miles back to
the trailer. They got in about 25 miles for the day. What is a vintage
ride with out turning a few wrenches.

And as a bonus the hot dogs were ready when they
got back to the trailer!