Our mechanic from Iceland has now left after a week here. Hurry was just your perfect mechanic. He was a lovely helpful guy and what he didn't know about skidoos wasn't worth knowing. He has a dealership that puts turbo chargers into skidoos that improves the power up to 300hp. He kept us entertained in the evenings with video clips of skiddoos racing up hills on their back legs with their skis in the air and doing other impossible things.
He has given all our machines a through checking and fixed this and tensioned that, so they are all purring. He also gave us loads of useful advice and taught us all sorts of stuff.
Hurry is a skidoo monster. He has to spend most of the summer with his family as they never see him during the winter. If he's not selling them or fixing them, he's driving them. And can he drive them! He came on a couple of trips with us and we spent most of the time thinking 'I never knew they could do that!' Every time we got to a dodgy bit, we would send Hurry first to show us how it was done. We didn't quite manage his skillful handling across slopes on one ski, driving it like a surf board (with passenger all goggle eyed "when I lean, you lean' - "yeah right") but we did get up some steeper slopes to gain access to Kalkdal, one of the main valleys. The great thing is, we haven't put him off - he said he would be happy to come back.
Today we have been looking at a route north, but were stopped by lack of snow in the main valley. It has been quite a low snow year this year. This has implications for the season as it was our main route last year west across Jameson Land. To go west to get clients to Ren Land, we will have to find a route south to get round the bottom of Jameson Land. We will also have to find a route further east out to the coast to get clients to North Liverpool Land. Lots of work to do to find workable routes.
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