Sandy and Arly's training adventure on Tuesday.

 On Tuesday, Sandy and Arly towed the Boss to Mass City, so they asked to borrow just one post from Wally and Gromit with photos taken there.  They had a grand adventure at the Winter Survival/Off-trail snowmobile operations training put on by the NFS.  

We met at the Greenland Township fire hall,
located in beautiful down town Mass City. 
And, across the street from Bubba's house!
He's "the mayor of Mass City", ya know.

Our intrepid instructor, Dave Tembreull (center, in black)
had a short "classroom" presentation, then got everyone
out for hands-on learning.

Then we headed out to the real classroom. This cut-over
was at a camp near the former Indiana Mine (as far as we could tell).

This was where off-trail riding could occur.
It didn't take long at all for someone to get stuck!
This was the point, as Dave taught us how to
get un-stuck and riding again.

The Boss of course didn't get stuck, even when
driven by an amateur.

Since Sandy doesn't own a snowmobile helmet, she
was very grateful to borrow one from Amber Tembruell. She's
the rec manager for the Ottawa near us and is Dave's better half.

Ya, in-the-field training was great!

The sun even came out, and it warmed up some!

Next, we went to a different location to learn how
to build an emergency shelter. Here Arly is relaxing in ours.

Our proficient shelter-building gang.

Ya never know when you may need to do this for someone.

The line up of sleds, waiting for their shelter builders to return.

Getting ready to start a fire. Yes it is possible to 
get a fire going with one of those goofy flint spark strikers!

All in all, it was a fun and informative day.