Snowmobiles are Awesome

I grew up in an area of North America where some guys kept a snowmobile in the back of their truck for about 5 months of the year. You couldn't always depend on there being a good layer of snow around the community, but on the weekends you could drive to areas with higher elevations and find all the snow you could ever want.

Snowmobiling on frozen lakes was another option. I would advise everyone to avoid this practice unless you can be absolutely sure that the ice is thick enough. Snowmobiles are pretty heavy. I know of some people who stopped out on a lake for a moment with a sled that had an auxiliary trailer filled with beer. The beer trailer broke through and they had to disconnect it from the snowmobile or the snowmobile would have been sunk.

For most snowmobile enthusiasts, there is more time spent wishing and planning than there is time spent driving. A snowmobile forum is time well spent in the off season. Watching exciting snowmobile action on SledTV is another way to spend those pesky snowless days.

Snowmobiling has to be one of the most exciting winter activities. It is about a million times more fun than building a snowman.