Sunday, December 16, 2012

Our Snowmobile Ride 12-7-12

Man, we almost didn't even get the sled out of the trailer.  We drove up north 60 miles away in search of snow.  When we got to the parking lot we where disappointed to say the least.  There wasn't any snow, and you could see the dirt on the road where the snow had melted away.  Not a good sign.  After a second or two we decided that we drove the 60 miles we might as well get out there and put some miles on my brothers new sled to help break it in.  Boy am I glad we did.  As we got higher in elevation the snow started to get deeper and deeper.  All of the sudden the trail had 6 to 12 inches on it.  We finally got to an opening where we could climb our first hill.  At the top of the hill we where all of the sudden in 35" of snow. There where some points that we probably where in as much as 40", but that was a bit more rare.  Anyways here is a video of our first ride.



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4 comments:

  1. How did you get the speedo/alt in the bottom right corner? that is really cool.

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    1. My camera is GPS enabled. It is the Contour GPS. Then I used a program called Dasware which automatically extracts the GPS data from the camera. You can read my review of the program here: http://discusspowersports.blogspot.com/2012/11/dashwarenet-video-editing-software.html

      It does so much more than my little gauge in the corner.

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    2. Interesting, I wish my GoPro had that. I will have to look into the Contour when I decide to upgrade. Thanks for the quick response.

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    3. You can do it with the go pro and a standard GPS. It just takes a bit more work to get the data sinked up.

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