Comments on: Kebler Pass — Making Sled Skiers Look Bad Worldwide

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:25:46 +0000

Pete, taking a sled home that looks “abandoned” is a good way to get in trouble for theft!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:14:20 +0000

This Is one of the better areas in our country to go shred your sled board or skis and is also one of the gnarliest. I spend a lot of time up there in the winter and summer and am an avid snowmobiler myself. Snowmobiling is not cheap by any means in any way, and I would have to hope that anyone leaving there sleds up there is trying to go retrieve it when it is possible for them. The average backcountry ski bum can’t afford to just abandon sleds the way this blog makes it sound. If you guys writing in this blog really do love to ski and get into the backcountry and also want to clean up the backcountry, go back there with a single place trailer and some winches and get those sleds outta there, spend a few hundred bucks to get the motor running again and now you have a sled of your own to go get out there and shred with!

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:47:08 +0000

thanks for letting me know they were indeed abandoned Ive seen snowmobiles on the side of the road their years not the same mobiles but newer ones seem to left each winter i think ill just take them away next time..I guess i’ll look for tags first though

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:29:16 +0000

Stripping all the registration markings off of a sled that died in the backcountry and then abandoning it in a ditch – gawd that story sounds familiar. Now, where did I hear it…?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:33:47 +0000

sure.

I also liked dave’s comment about a “sled repo man”. Anyone who has ever burried a sled knows how much work it is to get it out and a dead motor or chaincase blowout can be 10 times as much work. As you guys already said, I’m sure alot of this carnage is simply people with no means to recover thier machine at that time.
I have been looking at buying an old Kristi sno machine for my own selfish needs and had thought alot about a sled recovery or towing type side project. even if it was on a volunteer basis, it would be worth the effort if that meant keeping these areas open to all of us.