My favorite all around machine was a Yamaha ET340. NEVER let me down or sit. Light weight, thin stance, long track. She was a great trail blazer even in deep powder.
The Secret Service is going to have fun with this guy.......They’d better start tuning up their sleds if they want to cover him during the next Iron Dog.
Todd Palin’s a pretty good looking “dude” in his own right!
I think that he races snow machines, not snowmobiles. Alaskans say snow machine
In this year's 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog contest, Palin and racing partner Scott Davis were trying to defend their 2007 championship when Palin broke his arm in a crash. It was 400 miles from the finish line, but he refused to quit, coming in fourth, cheered on by the parka-clad governor waving a checkered flag.
“There are racers who throw in the towel pretty quick, without broken arms, with just a head cold,” executive race director Laura Bedard said Friday. “This speaks highly of his character.”
...resonating throughout though out heartland America ....that is one tough guy!!!
check this out:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222685,00.html
What's on the dinner table most often in the Palin house?
TODD: Our favorite is moose hot dogs, caribou hot dogs. We get caribou, get ‘em ground up and put them into hot dogs. They're Polish.
McCain/Palin now has the all American coolness factor...fishing in Alaska, moose hot dogs, piloting a small airplane, husband champion snowmobiler (nickname “First Dude”)....that is so COOOOOL!!!!!
COOL.
Obama’s hacks claim Biden was the Ham-and-cheese sandwich answer to Barry’s appeal to the arugula crowd. This Country is gonna go for the mooseburger and I’ll bet Joe is ripping out the hair plugs and gnawing his manicured nails today, cursing his decision to accept his spot on the next losing Demohack ticket. Buck up Joe. You’ve got the next 8 years in the Judiciary Committee to make an ass of yourself hollering at McCain/Palin’s SCOTUS nominees. (:^o)
Yeah - I can dig this! In a future Palin Presidency, I’m beginning to visualize a certain kind of come-uppance for our nation’s elite . . .
the racers are often called “slednecks”
got to keep in mind we have 6 months of winter and further north and into the bush the communities have no roads, its sleds or air.
Almost everyone has a sled(snowmachine) up here.
no house husband there... my only sled was a 303-Wankel ArcticCat. i was hell off the line, but the 340's had longer legs.The Palins seem like people you want to have over for beers and burgers. Such a huge contrast to politicians that dominate the news and occupy DC.
The youngest daughter has that “Dennis the menace” look on her face
PRICELESS!!!
First Dude! LOL! Dat’s a good one.
I’m willing to bet he is eventually going to be America’s first “First Dude”. That’s after Cindy McCain serves as America’s First Lady.
So NOT guilty!
:)
Straight out of Hans Brinker--and remember: Hans got the gold in the end!
Maybe the emergence of these two people onto the world stage will help knock some sense into our beloved friends in the Netherlands--and everywhere else--and bring them back to reality.
I looked up Dillingham and Wasilla on the map.
Dillingham's way out west, sort of on Bristol Bay. How cool is that! --though cool is hardly the word when you're talking about Alaka. I guess he does do the Iron Dog! That's how you get around up there.
Wasilla's just outside of Anchorage; so I expect everybody's urbane and citified--by Alaska standards, I mean.
I told my wife we've gotta go to Alaska! I feel the call of the wild!
I’d get Todd out on the trail with the kids for the youth vote.
He may well take it out from under Bambi, the guy is first rate cool, youth voters are gonna love him.
These hardy, self-reliant Alaskans—taking on and even prevailing over The Last Frontier (he finished the last 400 miles of the Iron Dog with a broken arm) have already made a mockery of the whining victims—who need a village to raise a child—of the degenerate, decadent Left and their sociopathic leaders who keep them mired in victimology and convinced that they are eternally needy and incapable of self-reliance.