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Your safety and peace of mind is our concern!
We will have a slight price increase this season and it’s just the cost for a group air med policy to cover everyone going on our trips this year.
We still recommend getting a travel insurance policy for US citizens going to Canada. Most US health insurance policies are not effective in Canada. Accidents can happen and it’s best to prepare best you can!
What do you do on a rainy day in August? Plan snowmobile trips and events!
First on our calendar will be the snowmobile shows.
October 4-6 will be the Big East power sports show in Syracuse
October 25-27 PA power sports show in Bloomberg PA
We always go to our favorite lodge Auberge du Vieux Moulin right after Christmas to get our new machines broken in and bring in the new year Quebec style!
Our first saddlebag trip will be the Saguenay/ Lac Saint Jean / Mont Valin ride. February 2-8. This one is already filling up!
New for this year we will have three consecutive weeks at Auberge Du Vieux Moulin. The first week February 8-15 is our Valentines couples week. It is already full for 2025.
We will be there the weeks of February 15-22 and 22-March 1. Once you’ve been to the Auberge you know why we can fill up three weeks there. The lodge, the staff, the food and the surrounding trails make the perfect snowmobile vacation. We ride a relaxed 100-150 miles each day and get back early enough to relax and unwind in the hot tub before enjoying our gourmet dinner. These are not saddle bag trips. We ride out and return to the Auberge each day.
It’s time to get onto some saddlebag trips and we will head to Gaspe for two consecutive weeks. March 2-8 and March 9-15.
If the weather and snow permits we will plan one more saddlebag trIp March 16-22. Location will be determined according to conditions.
Hard to believe but it’s coming fast! See you all there!
Just 65 days until the next Big East Powersports Show! We have some fun additions in the works - stay tuned!
It’s looking like I will have to cancel our ATV riding week at Gaspe the first week in September. Can’t find a SxS within 200 miles of Gaspe. Any rental companies in Maine won’t let you take their machines across the border due to insurance. Getting one on the west side of the Saint Lawrence is a possibility but will add two days on to my trip just to pick one up and return it and places renting are charging 4-500.00 a day.
I don’t enjoy ATV riding enough to want to invest $30,000 in a machine to go once a year. I will make Gaspe a motorcycle ride next year!
Seeing the tragedy of an avalanche at Gaspe with the loss of three lives reminded me of our 2013 trip.
It was one of those strange years with up and down temperatures. We had rain one day and 3’ of snow overnight. We left Perce and made it up to Grandee Vallee breaking trails all the way. When we got to the motel in Grande Vallee the owner told us there was an avalanche on trail 5 and she would make arrangements for a truck and trailer to come on the morning to take us past the avalanche. I took this picture out of the window of the truck as we drove.
Terrible tragedy at the Gaspe Peninsula. Big snow storms and warm temperatures are not safe conditions. Sad to hear three lives lost🙏
March Madness!!
Cold, Snow, warm, melt, rain, freeze, repeat 😖
End March Madness!!
So I met with my shirt supplier over my frustration of this years shirts shrinking. We picked the shirts this year because we liked the color. No one explained to us that this brand has the “soft feel” which has a cotton that will shrink. Next year we will keep the soft feel for the ladies and order larger sizes and go back to the heavier weight shirts for men.
It’s frustrating that I had to become a shirt expert but because I’m spending $2000.00 dollars a year on shirts I guess it was necessary. 😖
Did anyone else experienced our shirts shrinking a full size this year? Mine did after they were washed. I have a meeting with the print shop tomorrow but they have already told me that their supplier refuses to do anything about it because I ordered them 5 months ago. I told them I’ll be ordering more in five more months and will be finding another supplier if something isn’t done!
Trying to plan our Quad Quebec Gaspe Peninsula trip is getting exhausting!
Maybe I’m just burnt out after planning six snowmobile trips and canceling four😖 !
Trying to get rental SxS’s for people wanting to come on this trip is next to impossible. No one at Gaspe rents them. I am looking 7 hours away and found a place in Thetford Mines and they told me they wouldn’t rent to me because the Gaspe trails are too rough for their Can Am Maverick machines😖
It’s not looking like anyone at the Gaspe Peninsula rents Side by Sides😖
We strongly recommend getting travel insurance for your trips. Especially when leaving the US!
started planning our September ATV trip to the Gaspe and getting excited all ready! We will check in to Grande Nature Village in the chic chocs on Saturday August 31. We will ride locally for a day there on Sunday September 1 and the make our way to Perce. It’s 280 miles to Perce so our halfway point will be overnight at Motel Grande Vallee. We will spend the night Tuesday in Perce. Wednesday back to Grandee Vallee and Thursday back to Grande Nature Village. Friday we will head a different direction at grande nature village and Saturday back home. We will go across the north shore of Gaspe twice and that is the most scenic part of Gaspe!
We just finished up our 2024 season a few days ago and we’re talking about next year already?😁
That’s what snowmobilers do!
We already have many bookings for 2025 due to the unfortunate cancellations this year because of the weather and our signature Valentines week couples trip has repeat customers every year with few openings available so while snowmobiling is still fresh in everyone’s minds and before moving on to boating, motorcycles, ATVs and all the other fun stuff we do I want to bring up our 2025 trips.
February 2-8 will be our first saddlebag trip of the season and we will ride the Saguenay, Mont Valin and Lac Sainte Jean regions.
We already have three people signed up for this trip! It’s one of my favorites!
February 8-15 Our signature Valentines couples trip at Auberge du Vieux Moulin. Once you’ve done this trip with us, you count the days until you come back. We are already filled up for 2025!
New for us in 2025 we are booking two more weeks after our valentines week at Auberge du Vieux Moulin. February 15 - March 1, We will schedule 3 day, 5 day and 7 days stays
at our favorite lodge Auberge du Vieux Moulin.
All of our trips at the Auberge have relaxed 100-150 mile rides, gourmet meals, time to spend in the hot tubs after our rides and our 7 day stay includes a massage day and mid week break for the ladies should they want it! We already have several bookings for this time frame. If you want to make it really easy, you can fly into the Montreal airport and we can have you picked up and you can rent one of the brand new machines that the Auberge buys each year!
March 2-8 and 9-15 will be our two saddlebag trips at the Gaspe Peninsula. Due to the poor weather conditions we had to cancel these trips this year.
Everyone from this season who had their trip canceled is planning to return in 2025, so there won’t be many opening available.
We plan to have a booth at the Big East show in Syracuse and at the PA state snowmobile show.
OFF SEASON? What off season! Working on our Quad Quebec trip to the Gaspe Peninsula! Been there dozens of times on snowmobiles but never in the summer. We will start from one of our snowmobile destinations, Grande Nature Village in the Chic Chocs and spend our first two days there exploring the area before packing up and making a two day trip to Perce to see the famous “Rock”.
We plan to check in Saturday August 31 and check out Saturday September 7. I am working on the trip price and securing a place to rent side by sides.
Sad to say!
The only good thing about snowmobile season ending early is I only gained 10 pounds! In a couple more weeks it would have been worse!🤪
First day home from the 2024 season and lots of not so fun stuff to do.
#1 is the refund checks for people on the trips we had to cancel. I know several people asked to hold a deposit for trips for next season. That will happen and checks will go out today!
#2. Changes to our contract for 2025.
A. Snowmobiles must be legal in Quebec to go on our trips. That means at least one mirror fixed to the machine on the left side and no modified exhausts. There are no warnings for violations on the trails. Fines and impounding sleds will happen and that is not fair to the others on a trip.
Medical issues that could be a lifesaving matter need to be addressed. HIPA laws/Medical privacy act does not permit us to ask medical questions but if you are on a snowmobile trip and there is a medical emergency that could be life threatening, we need to know.
AirMed insurance coverage. I will be getting a policy to cover everyone going on our trips for 2025. Our trip price will increase 25.00 for this coverage.
#3 changes to our trips.
Our trips at our favorite lodge, Auberge du Vieux Moulin have become our most popular trip. It started out as our valentines week couples trip. Well it’s filled up every year, so we added a second week. Now we have requests for more so we are going to have three consecutive weeks at Auberge du Vieux Moulin. The first week will be our signature Valentines couples week! The next two weeks following won’t be limited to couples and we are going to offer 3 day and 5 day stays for those two weeks. Our 7 day stay at the lodge Saturday to Saturday will still include our ladies day with a massage included on Wednesdays. We can still make arrangements for massages for anyone who wants one on the shorter trips.
Ok, time to get to work😩
It is definitely going to be a buyers market not sellers with snowmobile this and next year. Dealers are overstocked with 2024’s.
People put a fraction of miles on their machines this season and the market is flooded with used machines. I anticipate the manufacturers “rebate programs “ will reappear.
Now that snowmobile season is over we will spend more time and focus on our Quad Quebec page!
Gaspe Peninsula trip will be August 31-September 7.
I will work on a rental company for side x sides for that trip! Quad Quebec page and Quad Tour Quebec website will become more active and updates soon!
Best of luck and a safe race for Team Maine/ Robert Gardner at the Cains Quest race in Labrador!
Our shirts for customers have always been black, grey or a variation so the decision to go teal was a tough one. It was based on the colors in our logo.
I like the teal and my wife says the color looks good on people! Now what about next year?😆
Well the 2024 season is over and certainly was a disappointment. We had no riding for our holiday week and the season ended two weeks earlier than it should have. I have half a day working on my 2024 sled getting all my stuff off and and back to stock to sell before heading home tomorrow morning.
On the bright side I’ll be home to celebrate my girls first birthday! She will be happy!
Time to start planing out Gaspe Quad/SxS trip August 31-September 7.
We have room in the trip for more people and I’ll be working on a place to rent SxS’s.
We made it back to our start point in La Tuque!
Only trucks and trailers in the parking lot were ours.
We kicked some serious butt! Cheers to this group!
Our last two days of the 2024 season😖
263 miles today leaving the Coronet in Sacacur
And taking 93 to the 373 across the top of Lac Saint Jean snd around to Chateau Roberval. We will stay on the best conditions trails that way and go over the new bridge.
We started our ride from Les Escoumins and they were calling for rain. We rode 170 miles to Baie Comeau and they were calling for rain and we rode 170 miles with no RAIN!
We had a great, rainless day on the trail #3!
We had a nice ferry boat ride today. The boat was packed. We just got on in time. Trails were mostly good today. Just hoping now to make it through the week.
We had some excellent conditions yesterday going through the lower Saguenay trails. Today we will take the gorge out to the St Lawrence and take the ferry across.
Looking at the forecast and the amount of snow that we have and no way we will be able to ride again next week😢
Our view of the Saguenay river gorge from one of my favorite places Auberge Battures!
Ice houses out on the river.
Did a little side step down to Mont Apica this morning. It did not disappoint!
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There are many areas where trails are still closed, water crossings are not sufficiently frozen because it’s still early! Mid January is considered early for some years. But mid March will be excellent so just plan a trip with us March 12-18 and you will have great conditions! We will go up to this lookout on Mont Valin!
Facebook created this slideshow of our favorite lodge Auberge du Vieux Moulin. We will be there between Xmas and new year’s and our couples trip is valentines week! Both of these trips fill up so don’t wait too long if you’re interested!
Some great Quebec memories. Summer and Winter!
Once again we are getting to that time of year when I have to send out a reminder to fill out our contract that can be downloaded from our website and send in your deposit for your trips. Payment must be made for the trip in full 30 days before your trip start date! We will close registration for all trips on December 31 and all blocks of rooms that are not reserved will be returned back to the lodges. It gets very difficult for me to operate a business when people hand me checks in Canada and I’m riding around carrying checks that I can’t deposit and have maxed out credit cards. Thank you!
Two Winters ago on the southeast side of Lac Saint Jean. You could hardly hang on to your machine in the open fields the wind was so bad!
