Several things: first always bring a GPS/phone equipped with one (and always bring phone for sure), second I don't know if you had a shovel or not, but definitely recommend it to cut back on energy wasted on digging when stuck. Third, at night NEVER take useless risks even if your tempted to do so in order to get back home quicker, take the safest known route back home. Fourth, bring a small emergency survival kit with you. You never know when you'll get stranded or hurt. Fifth, I understand you don't always have someone to ride with, but whenever possible bring a riding buddy along. Lastly and most importantly use common sense at all times (ex: if doing night riding make sure your machine's light works lol). That's my recommendations for today, there plenty more but for your particular experience I wanted to share these based on what I saw!
@@zpeos5713 This is true, but none of the things I mentioned are hard to carry, for me, I have a tunnel bag that I just put on my Ski-Doo by default whenever I go riding whether it's a long trip or a quick run, and it contains the basic things in it that I mentioned initially other than my phone. The things I mentioned should/can be default things to take in consideration/bring along regardless of length of ride :)
@@tfoxfamtfoxrules4875 I did read, it doesn't change anything to what I said. GPS signal will still work, and if cell service is out of range, at least there's a chance you can get some at one point or another (as he did in the video). Better to have the cell than not to have one.
I live in Quebec some night in winter , The temp drop to -30C even -40c. I never ever leave the traill when i am alone. At -40 if you are lost , you are pretty sure to die.
I see a lot of hate and people telling him what to do but Plain and simple I'm sure he knew all the stuff your trying to tell him his is a good rider with a fair amount of skill put were humans and humans make mistakes
sure people make mistakes but he made a LOT of mistakes. 137 inch track, no headlight, in the mountains, by himself, at night, no one knows where his is. Im sure theres other major mistakes Im missing.
Ye its easy to comment that, theres snowing and wind and fucking much snow and for all that shit the fucking snowmobile weighs 250kg. U think its easy just turn the fucking thing around and go the same way back? And when there snowed the track got covered by snow so its better just drive forward and hope to find way to home
1) It wasn’t snowing, or if it was it surely wasn’t enough to cover the trail. 2) snowmobiled leave deep and easy to see trails in powder. 3) there was no wind at all this is a dense forrest. He could have done a u turn around a tree and went back the way he came
@@smiley847 good to comment that 1 yr later bitch, i assume you have never been in a situation like that in the video and you dont know shit about snowmobiling
Honestly, if that's bear country I'd be armed. I'd also carry flares. But then again, there are a lot of things I'd be carrying including a GPS beacon and phone.
Been caught in a storm crossing a small Lake that I've crossed a million times before and couldn't see a thing, Got lost and almost ended up in open water doing about 40km\h. That was scary
Last month my dad and I went over a lake up in Maine in the middle of the night because my thumb warmer stopped working and i was freezing. And we ended up breaking through the ice and going in, we were able to get out and luckily i had my phone and was barley about to reach 911. But luckily after two hours they got us and we were treated for hypothermia. Scariest night of my life, but i still love snowmobiling.
The sad thing is, idk how fast 40kph is on a sled cause even tho I’m in Canada the speedometer is in miles not kilos so idk, I’m so used to using metric and imperial so I always get mixed up but I usually use kilos for speed, just not on sleds, idk why, I’ve lived in Canada my whole life but used imperial and metric measurements of anything my whole life, like temperature of anything but weather is Fahrenheit and weather temp is Celsius, idk why but water, food, body, I know it as Fahrenheit but weather is Celsius, for speed it’s kilos except for snowmobiles, quad, side by side, car, are all kilos, measurements like length are both, construction it’s more so inches and feet but use both, distances from place to place, using Meters and kilos, measuring liquid, litres and mL
I live in the mountains of BC. I've mounatin bike, dirt bike and hike by myself for years, but I never sled alone. Snow is a whole other beast. If you break down it take an hour to cover what a sled can do in 20 seconds, not to mention sweating like crazy then freezing. Never ride alone, have a headlamp incase your headlights crap out and have back up batteries.
What an amazing awesome ride of a lifetime and now you know why we take chances it makes us smarter and stronger. I have been a boon docker for 48 years there was not any trail systems in place we were the pioneers. Thank you for sharing. And just so some of you know headlights on a snow mobile at night boon docking never work and can be a henderance no headlights good. Helmet lites work the best you can see where ever you look. Glad you are able to tell your storie and educate other's
Brent Hammer Happy to see someone else who is not judgemental. A lot of people in the comments feel the need to educate this man on something he clearly gained experience from, and had the balls to share!
To realize steepness while watching GoPro footage is: pause the vid, put your phone sideways, and tilt your phone until the terrain is flat. Then look at the angle on your phone and that’s how steep something is. Like this please to spread the word!
95cumminsman and i know it ways 200 kg but he can lift half of the slead its a littel more effort to turn it but yea he tried to drive it around butt why did he continiue to go fhuter away
The thing with these adventures is that it just feels soooo incredible good to get back home afterwards. Been there, done that a couple of times. I especially remember one time with my dad before we even had cell phones. It was a pretty bad situation but yet I'm happy to have the experience. Now when I think about it, it's clear to me where I've got my poor judgement from.
Very scary situation my brother and I had a similar experience a few years back it wasn’t at night but we had are selfs in a bad spot and had one hell of a time getting back out it took us several hours but we made. It does make you think always ride smart glad you made it out
To the people saying why cant he just follow his trial: if he crossed paths with his trials at all it would make it extremely difficult to find your way back
This is testament as to why you dont ride alone ever it dont matter if you are the best in the world or you have been riding the area your entire life you never know what will happen glad your safe man
just a tip if you ever get lost riding you can always fallow the sled tracks back to an area you know and if the weathers bad enough to fully cover the tracks then ride with someone/don't ride at all
Oh man, i knkw the feeling, happend to me quite often in dark, even walked back twice, worst one was one of those "trap", i felt over, like, 8 meters or so, sled first then me over it, was hurt but not injured
@@falkenssonsproduction Ay, but that drop was during daytime with completely covered sky, when there is no shadow or visible relief on snow, it was looking flat untill it was already too late lol. You too take care
Should’ve just turned around and followed your tracks back, and riding in the dark with no working light on your sled and riding by yourself, probably not the best idea.😂 Glad you made it back!!!! Legend has it, he lives to ride another day!
I made a mistake a couple of years ago. I went mt biking something I do often on my property. I was only going to ride for a half hour or so. I did something I had never done, I went without my camelback, night lights or cell phone. I started to have a great time so I kept riding. I was heading home and my tire let go. Lets just say it was a long walk in the pitch dark. I still ride alone at night but never without tools, water, cell phone and night light. Take care have fun be safe.
Even though this is quite a scary experience, its quite interesting to see how you reacted during this situation. Almost like your survival instict took over as you started to panic, making the most reasonable decisions. Ive also been in a simular situation Only that i had a 1993 440 polaris with short track and 15mm lugs. Not only was it a useless machine in deep snow, it also was boggy. I followed a some snowmobile tracks in the snow, since i was exploring a new part of an area that i know quite well. As i followed the tracks, they suddenly disapeared so i decided to follow the direction they were going/coming from. That was my mistake as i ended up in a steep hill with alot of trees, rocks and deep snow. As i started to panic my survival insticts took over and i somehow got out of that situation. I had to break down slim trees and use them as sort of a bridge, and just hold the throttle wide and hope for the best. It took me about 5 hours to get out. Fortunatly there was a lake at the bottom that i followed all the way to a road.
So for those of u who are saying oh just turn around and follow the tracks back. He couldn’t. In fact at 7:35 he mentions again how he just needs to find a spot to get enough speed to climb back up and do that very thing. But as he also mentioned he was on a 137 and the snow we very deep and the winds were picking up.
Maybe back track? I got hung up crossing a small stream at night 1 hour north of Cochrane Ontario in back country tree riding. Half of my back end was in the water. It was crazy! I eventually crawled back to the trail mostly beaten down and walked to camp, it took me two hours to walk back and I was wet and it was approximately-15 Fahrenheit. I was glad to get back, my buddies were pissed two ways drunk and at me. 😅😅 Never can be to safe.
Time I clicked on this video (it was recommended to me). I was thinking “who goes out in the dark on a mountain with massive snow everywhere?” 🤔 Then common sense clicked in. Only foolish people do stupid things! 🤦🏽♂️
You should get some experience with winter tenting (if you don't have already) and start carrying a worst case scenario kit with you. Mine includes a full tent, weeks worth of food, -40 bag, wet matches, dry kindling, flares etc. Often I'll go up for a few days, find a nice bivy site and set up, mark that on my GPS and go ride. That setup I have a small wood stove which heats my tent nice. But when day riding you can strip it down to essentials if needed.
My heart was pounding and I’m very happy you made it gone safe. I had my sled break down on me out at the lake I had to walk home across the lake at 4 o’clock in the morning, no we are near as dangerous as this.
When in doubt, ghostride sled down the hill. Best video ever, I'm surprised you're smart enough to post it. Hope you sold that thing and never rode again.
Kollade hela bara för man känner igen domdär situationerna då ravinerna ligger neråt och enda vägen hem är ju sen uppåt 😊 dock aldrig helt själv och lär aldrig hända heller. Skönt att det gick bra
ive been exactly there before, only difference was my headlights worked. just have to see what's around that one last turn. what a roller-coaster of emotions though eh. like panic, dread, fear, happiness, excitement, just so many ups and downs. after i did this twice i bought myself an inreach device and carry that all the time with me. hasn't saved me yet but if/when it does ill be glad i had it.
The most important thing I own and carry with me whenever I go into backcountry is an plb. And usually I'll have two devices capable of calling for rescue. An inreach and my plb. It's just that little bit of extra security.
I realize now that my 40 years of what I thought was snowmobiling was a lie. You my friend have serious skill. I would be a fossil out there for the next thousand years.
What sound was at the moment when it said "did you hear that"? Some animal or? And doesn't your sled have lights or are they broke? Sorry if this is a stupid question, dont know much bout sleds. And good that you made it! That was some sketchy shit right there
I'm a skier and honestly until the whole getting lost and stuck part this video really made riding a snowmobile look fun, I'm gonna have to give it a try some time
Thanks for posting the vid. Now thats reality tv for sure. Glad you made it out and were able to share so we can all think about it if we decide to go out solo...
I once was lost in the arctic circle for 14 hours. Not on a sled, but in similar conditions and poorly equipped. A crazy story Edit: actually in northern Sweden which I guess is where you are
Haha wait... "This made me think..never go out without telling anyone" you didn't think... Hmm, maybe I shouldn't make 'shortcuts' in the middle of the night deep inside the woods. ?? Thats what you really should think about man hahaha
Even with a perfect working headlight, a 100% perfect understanding of the area around you, and a longtrack, mountain riding alone at night is probably the worst idea I can think of. The sled could experience mechanical failure at any point no matter how new or well maintained it is. 1 bad crash or an engine failure too far from home and you’d never be found.
Best thing to do in a situation like this is to stop, try to figure out where you are and backtrack if you have to. If you keep going you just get more lost.
the worse thing that could happen in these kind of situation is to discover that you are located in a mountain sloap whn you know that going up is not an option anymore . This can go really bad fast when you are in darkness as you can end up in places where you have mulltiple feet drops and no way arround it and the only way down is to make yourself a foot trail hoping that the snow will not go into an avalanche .
always night ride in a area you know extremely well... know where every single drop and draw goes if your going to take it... also have battery banks and extra headlamp batteries plugged into them, as well as emergency food, and let ppl know where you are going.... looks like you need some riding buddies that are down to night ride as well.. its fun as hell but man im glad you made it out unharmed.
Even though I have a strong feeling there was a good reason to you not turning back just the whole time in my head I was like “JUST TURN BACK AND FOLLOW THE PATHHHHHHHHHH”
Compounding mistakes-maybe one you can recover-stack two, hmmm-you get three or four mistakes and and well whats that sound-is that Darwin softly calling for participants in his medal ceremony!
@@suomiswagmodz5009 Ok sure make a fire , burn your sled if you have too I get it. But a fire goes out bud once the fuel is burned up .So then try finding dry wood in the snow to refuel before someone finds you.. 👌 Not saying its impossible to survive, but its still a bad situation to be in, esp for some people without outdoorsmen skills. We can all be keyboard warriors saying what you would do, but until you are in that situation you honestly don't know how you would react.
If your stuck because the back end sunk down in, grab the handle on the back end and pull it out, it is definitely lighter than the front end, don't know why anyone would try to move the front end, unless they want to hurt their back.
