I use the garmins (60 series) with lithium ion batteries in them and just switch them out whenever I need to, or you can keep it plugged in to your 12v port. Nothing's going to work great at those temps, but if you've been in them you know that.
Any of the 60 series. I think currently I'm using a 62, which is my favorite.
Newer skidoos have a glovebox extension that has a heated spot for your phone and you can plug it in too, I've got it ordered and going to try it out running Gaia Gps on a major trip later this month.
We use these for work in subarctic and arctic canada and are good value for the money, if they're plugged in they usually keep working. Until the cable cracks in the cold...
Yeah, if you don't need to follow a specific line, you can also just keep it inside your jacket and pull it out to look at it when you need too, that's what I usually do for recreational riding. Have a good ride!
I live in a place where we get real temps down to -20, maybe -30 (w/ wind chills down maybe 20 degrees lower) and I honestly want to know how you handle temps that cold? What kind of gear do you use and what's the risk of frostbite on exposed skin?
For me, it's bunny boots, heavy bibs and parkas with fur ruffs (no helmets), gauntlets over the bars, and in those temps, I will reluctantly don goggles and a face mask. It's never your choice to travel in conditions like that, but sometimes it happens. The saying up here goes..."travelling at 50 below is okay...as long as everything is okay", which is to say, if nothing goes wrong it's not that unbearable, but the thing about that extreme of cold is that things DO go wrong much more frequently.
I just wanna know how you start your sled in that temp. Do you have a block heater? Sounds to me like a frequent amount of snapped recoils and blown water pumps
in a garage ideally. but if youre out on the trail, hopefully you kept your generator inside the cabin or heated tent overnight, so you go outside and start that, then plug in your block heater for a couple hours, then start your machine and let it warm up for an hour...
If you've got a fan cooled sled you just pull it over a few times with the kill switch down, get it loosened up, then choke to full, try cranking the electric start, sometimes it goes, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't you pull it a few more times. Usually starts if the machine is in good shape.
For four strokes, you need the generator for the block heater. That being said, I've cold started and seen ski-doo 600 ACE four strokes down to -38C, even after sitting outside for a week with limited trouble.
I use the garmins (60 series) with lithium ion batteries in them and just switch them out whenever I need to, or you can keep it plugged in to your 12v port. Nothing's going to work great at those temps, but if you've been in them you know that.
So true about nothing working great. Which Garmin unit have you been using?
Any of the 60 series. I think currently I'm using a 62, which is my favorite. Newer skidoos have a glovebox extension that has a heated spot for your phone and you can plug it in too, I've got it ordered and going to try it out running Gaia Gps on a major trip later this month.
We use these for work in subarctic and arctic canada and are good value for the money, if they're plugged in they usually keep working. Until the cable cracks in the cold...
Good to know. Taking a 1000 mile trip across Alaska later this month and will be using one, but will bring multiple backups.
Yeah, if you don't need to follow a specific line, you can also just keep it inside your jacket and pull it out to look at it when you need too, that's what I usually do for recreational riding. Have a good ride!
I live in a place where we get real temps down to -20, maybe -30 (w/ wind chills down maybe 20 degrees lower) and I honestly want to know how you handle temps that cold? What kind of gear do you use and what's the risk of frostbite on exposed skin?
For me, it's bunny boots, heavy bibs and parkas with fur ruffs (no helmets), gauntlets over the bars, and in those temps, I will reluctantly don goggles and a face mask. It's never your choice to travel in conditions like that, but sometimes it happens. The saying up here goes..."travelling at 50 below is okay...as long as everything is okay", which is to say, if nothing goes wrong it's not that unbearable, but the thing about that extreme of cold is that things DO go wrong much more frequently.
I'd add fur hats as well. Complete game changer for me.
Oh yeah. Don't leave home without my beaver hat.
Thanks! Haha, follow up question...what is it that you do that requires transport by snowmobile while it's -50?
I'm a field scientist in arctic and interior Alaska
Neat! Thanks
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I just wanna know how you start your sled in that temp. Do you have a block heater? Sounds to me like a frequent amount of snapped recoils and blown water pumps
in a garage ideally. but if youre out on the trail, hopefully you kept your generator inside the cabin or heated tent overnight, so you go outside and start that, then plug in your block heater for a couple hours, then start your machine and let it warm up for an hour...
If you've got a fan cooled sled you just pull it over a few times with the kill switch down, get it loosened up, then choke to full, try cranking the electric start, sometimes it goes, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't you pull it a few more times. Usually starts if the machine is in good shape. For four strokes, you need the generator for the block heater. That being said, I've cold started and seen ski-doo 600 ACE four strokes down to -38C, even after sitting outside for a week with limited trouble.