What song takes you back.........

The Rolling Stones album Hot Rocks reminds me of back in high school we bought some snowmobiles so we could go snowmobiling with our friends up in Minnesota. It was our first snowmobiling trip and they knew the Yamaha dealer owners and got us a great deal. We went to Minnesota and rented some cabins that were close together. It was My friends parents, the three brothers, me & my bro, and the owners of the Yamaha dealer and their three daughters... And some of the employees/mechanics at the Yamaha dealer.

When we got there, there was about 2 1/2 feet of snow on the ground already. The mechanics went off on their own, and us kids went out together, but didn't wander as far off as the Yamaha crew. There was so much snow, that we could ride on the streets, they still had enough snow on them after getting plowed! If we went off in the brush, there was so much snow that the snowmobiles would ride up on it, then sink and then push/plow snow...

During warm up breaks, we would drink hot chocolate, listen to Hot Rocks, play cards and goof off with each other (the five of us boys and the three girls). My brother ended up hooking up with one of the Yamaha dealer's daughters and dated her for a while after that.

One of the days that we were up there, it snowed real hard (blizzard). Us kids stayed in, but the mechanics all went out. They came back that night with like 8 out of 12 of their sleds crashed. The snow got so bad, one of them stopped because he couldn't even see the guy in front of him, then the rest of the guys behind him couldn't see him and reverse domino'ed into the back of each other. 7 sleds piled front to rear.... Holy crap!

By the end of the week's stay, all but one of the mechanic's snowmobiles was not damaged (he was the only one that owned his sled, the other guys borrowed them). So the other guys had to repair the damaged snowmobiles before returning them back to their owners when they got back home.

As for us "kids", none of our snowmobiles got damaged. We were more careful with our sleds. We had a great time breaking them in and listening to Hot Rocks during our warm up breaks.