DImitri, I would love to drive down to Amelia Island in one of you guys' two identical tobacco brown 280 SLs. Does either have a back seats? joking, of course. or am I? On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote:
> The daughter of some folks we know and her boyfriend drowned in a > snowmobile accident in the Whiteshell Park, years ago - around 1985, I > think. They found his body in the spring but did not find her body for > years. That part made it worse for her poor parents. They were out at > night on Valentine's Day and probably got a bit lost. It is thought that > they were likely one bay over from where they intended to be and ran into > open water. Can you imagine what that must have been like? > > Randy > > > On 18/02/2014 8:17 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: > >> I suppose you wouldn't let me snowmobile down the street either... >> >> The big advantage of a redneck town. Sunday I was out snowmobiling for 5 >> hours. Took off right from the house, down our dead end street about 100 >> yards, turn right, about 200 yards down Mill street, turn left, 100 yards >> down Murdock street until it becomes a long driveway for a furniture >> factory, another 300 yards or so to the real trails. We rode all over... >> >> One very scary place we accidentally crossed open water. Well it wasn't >> open water for the FIRST guy. He broke the ice, his girlfriend went to the >> right and caught mostly solid ice. The third guy hit completely open water >> in the center, next guy went right and caught ice under his right ski and >> water under the left. I went left, ice under the left ski and water under >> the right. It all happened so fast there was no time to avoid it without >> making things worse. See the water, hit the throttle and SKIP and we were >> across. Only maybe 15' of water... On the way back we hugged the shoreline >> until we could find somewhere with significant ice to cross. Fortunately I >> didn't have to change my shorts, couldn't stand up right away though, my >> butt was gripping the seat. >> >> -Curt >> >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
