Stories ill never forget

There are two stories in my family that seem to always come up and they will definitely not be going away any time soon. Both of these family stories that are both about snowmobiling events that happened to my dad and while they are funny now I sure bet they weren’t in the moment. It’s these to stories that we talk about all the time especially when we go snowmobiling, like every time we go snowmobiling at least twice. I wasn’t there for either of these stories I don’t even think I was born yet, but the number of times we talk about this a can make a perfect mental image of what went down. So further or do let’s get started with story time. The first story is my dad plus his snowmobile plus a moose encounter. It wasn’t this bad but when I had a moose encounter I will tell you it was freaking scary and having to jump off your sled of the trail in 6 plus feet of snow and have a moose run bye you full bore will give you the chills for sure. So anyway my dad was up in Caribou northern Maine where he lived growing up and he was riding on the trail with my uncle and he said they were moving right along probably around 60 miles per hour when he came around the corner and there it was, a 1000 pound moose standing right in the middle of the trail. So my dad slammed on his brakes and started to turn around when he saw the moose starting to run at him. So he took it out of reverse and started running away. As he thought he was all set he saw my uncle pass because he didn’t know and he hasn’t turned around yet. As the story is told my dad saw my uncle’s eyes get huge and he turned off the trail so my dad looked behind him and there it was, he saw this beast of an animal 5 feet behind him, smoke pouring out of his nose like a freight train right on my dads tail and he had no clue. At this point, my dad just took off and met back up with my uncle a couple miles down the trail and as they shut there sleds of my uncle says to my dad ¨dam you don’t see that every day¨. I will never forget this story. The second story might be hard to understand if you have never ridden a snowmobile. This is the other story that is told all the time in my family, My dad just bought a brand new 2007 Yamaha apex gt with a 998 cc four stroke four cylinder that had 195 horsepower, Witch is a very whole lot of power for a snowmobile. So the story goes that well a snowmobile and foot wells ware your feet can latch onto and a thumb operated throttle. So my dad was backing up in reverse just going nice and slow but he was standing up so when your standing up looking backward, balance isn’t the greatest. So as he was backing up he lost balance and fell forward. While his feet are still locked in the footwells him falling forward caused his leg to pin this 195 horsepower beast in reverse…REVERSE. His body got thrown over the front of the sled so picture this. He’s going 35 40 miles an hour in reverse continuing to throw his body over the hood, his head was touching the front of the snowmobile with his feet still stick and his leg continuing to have the throttle wide open. He finally got his feet unstuck and rolled off the side of the sled coming out with no injuries besides a little shocked of what just frickin happened. This story will always be in one of the greatest stories that I have ever heard. Both of these stories I love listening to my dad tell when we are out riding or just at home because they seem to be better and better every time he tells them. As funny and laughable these stories are my dad first told me them for a reason. Riding snowmobiles in a safe way and realizing that everybody makes mistakes and how to not to the same ones he did because he could have gotten seriously injured in both of these stories. The first story taught me to always be careful and always be on watch when riding because you never know when there will be a moose just standing there around the corner. The second story taught me to never stand up while backing up especially on these high horsepower sleds. So yes as funny as these stories can be and how I love hearing them, I did take a very important something out of it and that’s to be safe. But as long as I can I will always remember these two stories and I hope they get passed down someday.

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