Quebec Snowmobile Trail Conditions

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07-08 Snowmobiling Season Quebec

Zen Snowmobile Quebec Tour 2007 - 08
If you need a list of very solid snowmobile accommodations to go to this winter, here they are. Why not ride from one to the other. These folks will look after you with snowmobile maps, gas, food, comfortable clean rooms, and communications - everything your sledding group will need.

Our snowmobile motel sponsors are the greatest. Be sure to tell the people at the motel that you are doing the Zen Tour, and who knows, you may get something special. I know Bernard at the Motel Safari will have one free cold beer waiting for you!

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Our Zenwaiter sponsors have always been a small group, this year is no exception. We have eight motels / hotels that help to support this web site. Each of them has the right stuff to make your snowmobile holiday the best it can be. Anowmobile services that you need, like for example, secure truck and trailer parking, clean affordable rooms, good meals, fuel, and repair facilities available for your sled - these are the basics. Add to that, a knowledgeable and friendly staff, a spirit of hospitality, and knowledge of Quebec snowmobiling, and you have it all!

The sledding fun can begin anywhere along the route - wherever you want to leave your truck and trailer. You could start up at Motel Safari in South Shawinigan, and park your truck and trailer in Bernards ‘fortress’ to keep them safe while you are gone. Or, start at the Esterel in the fabulous Laurentian mountains, Whatever suits your needs. Make your favorite motel your base camp.

Then, ride north to see the beauty of Pourvoirie 100 Lacs. Be sure to try the ice fishing before breakfast. They always pull the biggest fish out in the winter - even some twenty pounders - Can you say Walleye?

Then ride your snowmobiles over to visit Dom at Rabaska on the lake. Dom has the tourism savy to look after you in style.

Next, ride over to meet Jean Beaulieu and his wife Dianne at Auberge Beaulieu in Mékinac, and meet all their staff in their down home bar! This is a must see. The music, the characters, and the atmosphere - Take it from Doctor ‘C’ - “It’s Great!. Meet the friendliest people on earth. Many say it has the warmth of the old Auberge le Refuge. Physically, it is totally different, but the friendships you make there may remind you of Crazy Al’s place.

Afterwards, ride over east to St-Michel-des Saints to visit Map Man Denny and his wife Carol at the Pied de la Chute. Extraordinary food in a family dining room, where they prepare it all themselves. Charming, clean and everything is brand new - beds, bedding, carpets paint… even the bathroom fixtures! It is very quiet and located right on the shores of big lake Taurau. You can walk to the Central. Ask Denny to be your guide to Off Trail Adventure.

Now, take the short ride back over to see Bernard at Motel Safari, or Denny at the Escapade Inn, in Shawinigan. Don’t forget the famous sizzling steak available only at that 57 Chevy restaurant. Bernard will take you! These two bon vivant Quebecs will look after whatever ails you. Fully secure with steel fences, and right on the trail.

Don’t miss meeting our new friend Pierre at Hotel Esterel.Get spoiled and enjoy the formal dining room, and the ultimate 5 Star treatment in the Laurentian mountains. Swimming pool, hot tubs, rentals, skiing, something for every member of the family. Very Unique, with a hundred year tradition of excellence. Ask for Pierre, he will look after your every need. A snowmobile holiday has never been better. They even have a basketball court up on the third floor - REALLY!

If you head north to Monts Vallin, be sure to stay at Jack’s Outback (Auberge Au Toit Vert), he will feed you and his friendly gals will keep you toasty warm. He has gas and everything you need.

As always, we ask you to remember our other ‘non- motel’ sponsors as well, Location Haute Matawinie for all your snowmobile rental needs. They also sell used snowmobiles from their rental fleet with very low miles. These are great people that can help find solutions to repairs, storage, and sales.

In Connecticut, we have two other sponsors… Accurate Wire has supported us for years, and also Shark Cycle they have two stores full of motorcycles and snowmobile deals for everyone.

Last but not least, let’s remember Adman Marketing and Online Auction Services, and big Pyro Dave from Pyromate Firing Systems and SledQuebec.Com in New Hampshire. And… let’s not foget the award winning web site that got me started in this crazy work… TrailConditions.Com.

There are so many others over the years that have kept this thing going.. guys like Crazy Al. Let’s remember them as well.

I will do my best to support all my sponsors by writing some good content on this site this winter - especially stories about YOU the riders! Be sure to keep in touch by e-mail… send me your adventure stories and photos, and you’ll see them on the front page this winter! zen@zenwaiter.com

L’aventure commence!
zw

Zen Motel Sponsors for 2007 - 08
Rabaska near Mont Laurier QC
Au Pied de la Chute (S-M-d-Saints) QC
Estérel Hotel (St-Margeurite)QC
100 Lacs Outfitter (Parent)QC
Motel Safari (Shawinigan S.) QC
L’Escapade (Shawinigan)QC
Auberge Beaulieu (30 mi N. of Shawinigan)QC
Auberge Au Toit Vert QC

Other Full Sponsors
Accurate Wire in CT
Shark Cycle and Snowmobile sales in CT
SnoSuit.Com
Sled Freaks.Com
Location Haute Matawinie Bombardier Rentals
Adman Marketing & Online Auction Services
Double Xtreme Snowmobile Calendars
Snow Trails TV.Com
Rawdon QC Weather Channel
The Mauricie Tourism Region

Where to stay when snowmobiling in Quebec. Where to rent a snowmobile in Quebec? Where to eat while riding in Quebec? Here are some great suggestions!

All Zenwaiter.com snowmobile sponsors have been thoroughly verified as good business people who care about snowmobile visitors. We only allow the very best on this web site. Money ain’t enough to twist my arm, motels and hotels that LIE to sledders about snowmobile trail conditions DO NOT appear anywhere in our snowmobile pages. You can trust the people that advertise in Zenwaiter.com. Please let us know of your experiences dealing with them. We get many compliments every year and positive testimonials.

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When you come to Quebec Canada to enjoy the fabulous snowmobile trail system, you will need to be in a clean and safe motel or hotel, where the owner specializes in that sport, because trust me, you are gonna find things a little strange! Everyone speaks French for starters, and you will need a motel room accommodation where the people can help you if you need a rental a repair, or anything snowmobile related. On Zenwaiter.com, we have sponsors that look after the snowmobiling family in Quebec! Have fun this winter!

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Auberge Au Pied de la Chute in St-Michel des Saints
Rabaska Hotel and Outfitter in Mont Laurier
100 Lakes north of Mont Laurier
Motel Safari in Shawinigan South
Hotel Escapade in Shawinigan
Auberge Beaulieu in Mékinac near Shawinigan
Hotel Esterel in St Margarite

These are places that you can stay in Quebec when you are snowmobiling, they are all at ON the snowmobile trails, and offer everything a snowmobiler needs to keep his sled in top shape, and ON the snowmobile trail.

Safe and convienient snowmobile accommodations are hard to find at the best of times, but these are people that specialize in meeting your specific needs. They offer (or can get) snowmobile repair services, snowmobile rentals, snowmobile rescue service, transport for sleds, gas, food, bars, entertainment, snowmobile maps, friendship, commoraderie and more! Some are fancy, some are basic, but they are all clean, and kind.

I will be visiting my sponsors this winter to take photos and to have some fun with them! I hope to meet you up there!

Snowmobilers get Ready! To get in the mood, go and watch great snowmobile television - on Snow Trails TV - for a tour pass of only 20 bucks, you can watch the award winning PBS television hit Snow Trails TV. You’ll be able to access 50 snowmobile television programs from one web site, and watch them on your computer screen. www.snowtrailstv.com

2007 - 2008 : A New Snowmobile Season
Here we go again!

This will be season number eight for me, writing and promoting our sport of sledding on the Internet, using blogs, video clips, podcasting, video blogs, posting snowmobile news stories, updating the zenwaiter interactive snowmobile site, posting photos on our snowmobile photo albums, participating in our snowmobile rider chat room, posting videos on youtube.com, bantering with trouble makers on snowmobile bulletin boards like Trailconditions.com and Hardcoresledder, sending out constant contact newsletters from time to time, answering your e-mails, conducting interviews on Zen Talk radio talkshows, and writing good old fashioned snowmobile articles about snowmobile theft, crossing the Canada US border, snowmobile safety, snowmobile destinations in Quebec and Ontario, and occasionally, penning my various rants on Zen’s Comments.

When I look at it this way, I think I can safely say that I am keeping up with the technology. Above and beyond all this of course, I actually visit snowmobile resorts, interview riders and motel owners, take photos, and provide updates on weather reports and snowmobile trail conditions when I can. I also post YOUR comments, your letters, and your photos that you send in.

Most years, I also attend and participate in the big snowmobile expos like Syracuse New York’s Big East snowmobile Show, and the annual Toronto Snowmobile Show.

Last winter, I was waiting for the snow before heading to Quebec to collect more new stories and photos, but the snow and cold never came. When the winter arrived in February, I was too sick to travel, so I stayed in my home and nursed my walking pneumonia through the rest of what can only be called, the worst winter ever for all snowmobilers. I was sick through April, with a lung problem that just wouldn’t let go. Strangely enough, it seems to be starting up again right now after a cool late night motor bike ride, and it worries me.

This winter snowmobile season, 07- 08, begins for me now in late August. Most of my writing and web site re-vamping work starts now and runs hard through November. At that time, I have to work hard to get the sponsors to pay up, and I solicit for donations. I spend hours every week on the phone with YOU, and go to the post office every day to mail out Zen Hats and thank you letters for donations received.

This year there will be no toll free number - last year it cost me over 1,200. and was a big drain on my time. The main topic of discussion, was ‘How do I get to Mont Vallins?’ I created a page for everyone to visit, but the calls still came in. You were too lazy to read what I had spent hours preparing for you on the web site. I pulled the 1-800 line in February.

The other topic was, “Where is the damn snow”. I had few answers. If this year is a repeat performance of Global Warming, the snowmobile industry is in trouble. Even the far north had no snow. It was eerie, and it was disconcerting. It cost everyone millions. My income dropped even lower than usual (hard to believe eh? HAHAH!).

But, on the bright side, I have to say that over the years, my web site business has slowly built up a few new clients annually, so, there is always hope that a small check will be in the mail box for services I have rendered to someone, no matter how small. Coupled with my money saving move to more affordable housing and living in Saskatchewan, I will be more resilient on the financial front.

I do not know if I will attend any snowmobile shows this year, I have my doubts, but I will have reports from them trickling in from contacts and good sources. I do not know if a trip down east will be in the cards for me either, but again, my reporters out there have really stepped up to the plate in recent years, and Zenwaiter.com manages to offer damn good info even when I remain in the office here. In fact, last year the site had more info than usual.

That’s my latest update. Stay Tuned. THANKS for listening!

Go to my main web site now!

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A slow start to the snowmobile tourism season in Quebec, puts us all behind the eigth ball. The sale of snowmobile trail passes in both Quebec and Ontario were abysmal, so, both organizations will be scrambling to reposition their finances over the summer - snowmobile infrastructure cost money, and this winter cost Canadian snowmobile trail operators a pile!

Black Bear Hunting in Quebec! This snowmobile season was very strange, what with the NO SNOW problem that hounded all of Quebec and Ontario, until mid February! There were a very few but notable exceptions of course such as mont vallins Quebec in the upper Saguenay Region, where they had 4 feet of snow right out of the gate.

Many of our snowmobilers realize, that it takes a healthy snowmobile tourism industry in Quebec to maintain the snowmobile trails infrastructure. Seeing as we had a terrible year, (but it is still good right now as I write this and shd be for another three weeks) it is more important than ever for you sledheads out there, to come up and try your hand at fishing in Quebec this summer, or go Black Bear hunting!

Case in Point!

100 Lakes Outfitter

run by JP and his lovely wife, lost their shirts this winter trying to pay for the grooming of their trails when there was hardly anyone up there. Then last week, some dildo with a grader, went and graded seven miles of his snowmobiling trail into oblivion! He worked for a logging company and was told not to do this, but the idiot did it anyways. If it’s not the weather, it’s something else.

My point is, that if you all went up to his place starting June 1st, to kill a big black bear, then you could help keep his outfit aflaot, and do the same for Real Masse - The Chute, Motel Safari, Esterel, and the rest of our sponsors.

Snowmobile rooms, snowmobile B&B, snowmobile hotel and motel rooms, and snowmobile house keeping cabins in Quebec, all revert into fishing and hunting accommodations in the spring - so lets get out there and support our Quebec Outfitters and Pourvoiries this summer.

Sermon mode off. Thanks for caring! God bless. zw

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Now! You’ll discover great deals on used snowmobiles right now! Used snomobile Blow Out Sale on Now at Location Haute Matawinie and Shark Cycles.These snowmobiles are not FREE,but damn near!

The season was extra short, and the supply of used snowmobiles is incredible. You should proffit from the crummy season NOW! Cheers zw

For the latest updates in Quebc Snowmobile trail conditions, please visit http://www.zenwaiter.com/Accommodations.htm

On this Accommodations page, you will meet our motel sponsors, who are eager and willing to give you the latest hones Quebec snowmobile and weather trail reports from many snowmobile regions of the province.

The 07 snowmobile season has had a slow start, but things are starting to move now. Although trails are fairly thin in many regions, others have good to excellent conditions. The base and the waterways are all frozen now, so there is no need to worry! Call your motel operator for more information. zw

Naked Women on Snowmobiles Here!

We finally have snow in Quebec, it’s not as deep as usual, but in many regions, the trails are very good. I think the Gaspé region got a huge dump. Click on the Gaspé link on my index page (left side).

Thanks for the donations, we have 1450. so far, that is almost half of the target which is 3070. for me to go reporting in Quebec for one month with the digital camera.

I try to visit all my sponsors every winter with the camera. This way I can report back to you on what these snowmobile motels - hotels, and BBs look like in the flesh. These are not brochure photos, I take real photos.

I report on the food, the rooms, the bars, the pretty girls etc etc. I am hoping to get the full 3070. in the savings account BEFORE i go to Quebec, so please donate if you have not already.

So far about 25 people have given to support the site, and about 2000 a day come to enjoy the content. If everyone sent in a few bucks we would be lauhghin’ but this is never the case. I work very hard at this all winter, and do my best to give you something interesting to read every day. I know some days it sucks pretty bad. Oh well!

Cheers.
xooxoxo zw

Many Ways to Help Out!
WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS SITE

1-tell your friends about this web site…

2- send out an e-mail to everyone on your address book

3- put a link and a logo on your own web site

4-buy a hat or a shirt if and when we have them

5-support our sponsors… stay at their hotels, drink their beer…

6 -When you are in Quebec, talk about the site to anyone who will listen! As you hold your open wallet in your palm, pause before handing over any cash, and say… “One of the reasons I am here today spending cash in Quebec, is ZENWAITER!” This has a strong impact.

7 -send in your photos (keep em small and limit to 4 max) with a text so I can use your trip story on the site. I will probably place it on our mail page.

8 - Save the zenwaiter site in your favs

9 -get your business to become a Zen Sponsor

11-When you run into Zen on the trail, if you ask him to come to a restauraunt, offer to pay for his meal. Why? He has no budget!

13 - Write letters to all the Quebec Tourism boards and orgs, and tell them what you like about Zen’s web site.

14 - If I help you to communicate by translating with the Police, (when you have been robbed, or in a crash), tell the authorities that they are lucky to have Zen there in Quebec!

15 - If you meet your love on the trails in Quebec, because I told you we just had two feet of new snow which made you come up, name your first born after me.

16 - Send a cash donation, just click the donation button on my site.

17 - This winter, If I take your photo and make you famous, why not send in a donation.. Remember, in the winter, I do this full time and no other money comes it. I have to figure a way to cover expenses.

19 - Keep your sleds CHAINED up at all times, and do not get your truck and trailer robbed. This will make me very happy. This winter, be smarter than the thieves for a change. Let’s run them out of business by being super vigilant. Remember that they are not shy, and will surprise you with boldness. At high noon in a busy place… BANG, your ride is gone.

20 Participate often in our Bulletin Board, tell others about your experiences in Quebec, especially your latest honest trail conditions, and your most fun motels and bars. Why not share this info with others?

25 - Also need all your GPS information to give away on our GPs page.

26 - Also need you to ride SOBER and stay safe. Also try keeping your speed down, and stay on the right side of the trail … (asshole!!) Last comment was meant for the three guys who almost killed me last year.

27. In the off season, hire me to build your web site.

That’s it for now! Thanks for everything guys and gals… see you in Quebec this winter eh??