The FST Sweetheart run was another great trip down the Tanana to Nenana and a lunch at the Monderosa. The river conditions were pretty good, but lacking in snow cover and lots of sheet ice and I was glad to have the Bearcat’s track studded up. However, those same wonderful studs also caused me some issues. I threw a couple of the studs and one of them went through my cooling unit. Same as getting a hole in your radiator, loss of radiator fluid and overheating 🙁 I ended up having to remove the track and lots of front end part to get the heat exchanger off, welded and then back on again.
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Snow Travelers Annual Sweetheart Run to Nenana
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The Bearcat wasn’t fixed by time the Iron Dog started so I rode Trish’s old Cougar 550 for the week marking trail and getting everything ready for our short portion of the race that we help set up. By use I mean me and a couple of Snow Travelers and and anyone else I could con into helping 🙂 That old Cougar did great, especially when Stoney’s (one of those friends I conned) sled broke down on the Chena River and I had to drag his sled and two tow behinds sled full of trail marking stakes. It was an interesting ride to say the least.
Anyway, a warm and fine spring. I could get use to this early warm up, just need more snow to go with it.