Last season due to the lack of snow

in Utah we were forced to make the

drive nearly every weekend to Wyo-

ming to ride sleds.

One trip in particular I’ll never for-

get is when we decided to save a little

money and sleep in our snowmobile

trailer at night while in Jackson, WY.

It was mid-December and we brought

sleeping bags, a generator and a space

heater thinking we were going to have

a nice comfortable (free) place to sleep.

We get up to Jackson around 11

p.m. and pulled into a church parking

lot thinking this would be the safest

place to stay.

We off-loaded our sleds (sorry

neighbors) and started setting up for

our luxurious night out. By the way, the

outside temperature was near 0 de-

grees F. We learned real quick that the

inside of the trailer would be even cold-

er than the outside temperature.

The space heater practically did

nothing as far as heating the trailer and

our generator overheated at some point

during the night.

We probably got no more than two

hours of sleep because we were abso-

lutely freezing. We got up around 5 a.m.

and immediately put on our riding gear

and headed to a local diner for a warm

meal. After some biscuits and gravy, we

headed up towards Togwotee. As we ar-

rived we were blown away at how much

new snow had fallen overnight.

Stoke was high and we quickly for-

got how tired and cold we were. Al-

though we had what I think to myself

a near-death, sleeping experience we

ended up having one of the best riding

days ever.

It’s experiences like these that make

this sport so fun and unpredictable.

DELUXE

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BY KYLE HEAPS

SLEDHEADS

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