‘Sup ladies? Cuttin’ Trail with Fast Eddie can lead you down many various paths. Cuttin’ Trail has evolved from riding on the city streets in CT. on an old Artic Cat Puma 440, in the mid 70’s, to the current day of racing across the Pemberton Icecap in British Columbia, and everything in between.
Today, we’re going to talk about a very unusual place to cut trail: Fall season had begun and I began to chomp at the bit to ride my new Indy 500, which I had stored in my basement all summer long. As the first snow began to fall in mid November, I could hear other sleds across the street in the field. With no one at home to help me carry the sled out of the basement up into the garage area, I needed to find a logical way to get out and “cut some trail”. Anyway, at the end of the basement, there was a five foot wide concrete staircase, consisting of about 8 steps leading up onto the garage floor. Having just installed some new carbide diggers into my sled’s track, I thought about all the possible ways to get my sled out into the garage…
At first, I tried to gingerly pull my sled up the concrete stairs to the garage, but had no luck. Meanwhile, outside the house, I could hear the excitement of more snowmobile engines roaring up and down the field on fresh New England powder! After one more attempt of pulling the new machine up the stairs, I decided my only way was to cut some concrete trail…
After pulling my machine to the far edge of the basement, I yanked the pull cord and sparked her up. With no hesitation, I hit the throttle, and took off across the basement floor towards the concrete staircase. I hit the staircase and in about 2 quick seconds, I was up the stairs and on the garage floor. The amount of smoke and fumes left the basement was substantial. I opened the garage door and raced across the street for my first ride of the season! Moral of the story: You don’t always need to have back woods or new snow to “Cut Trail”, sometimes a set of concrete basement stairs will do.
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