ONTARIO SHORT TRAIN
FEBRUARY 19TH – 24TH

A Canadian adventure that combines the great riding on Ontario’s well groomed trail system and a ride on the fabled Snow Train for us and our snowmobiles.

It all begins at the Water Tower Inn, in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario on Saturday February 19th.  There’ll be the traditional welcome dinner and an introduction to the other tour members.  Please try to get some sleep after dinner, even though the Water Tower is one of the nicer resort motels you’ve ever stayed at.  There’s a pub, an oversized pool and fabulous outdoor hot tubs surrounded by steam flocked trees and shrubs, all decorated with glistening white mini lights.

Sunday, our ride will take us thru the hilly and picturesque lower part of the Province to the small town of Bruce Mines and the Bavarian Inn on the very shores of Lake Superior.  Besides remembering the view of the Great Lake from here – you’ll remember your evening meal as one of the finest you’ve ever enjoyed.  Be sure to order the Walleye --they call it “Pike”.

Our destination for Monday night is Elliot Lake and the spanking new Hampton Inn.  You will leave the mostly flat land around the Soo and are in almost mountainous country, bedecked with grand old pines and desolate lakes. Your support truck is following the shoreline of Lake Superior all the way to our destination in Elliot Lake.

Tuesday we’ll push our way North to Chapleau and the Aux Trois Moline, an almost new facility.  The management here is so nice to Decker Tours that they give us a private room so we can have our nightly Driver’s Meeting.  Maybe, they just want to confine our boisterous review of the day’s activities to a sound proof room.  It’s hard to tell.

The next day we head west to Wawa.  It’s a beautiful ride thru a forested wonderland of lakes and hills -- with no cities or large towns to mar our passage.

By the time we reach Wawa you’ll be talking like a Canadian,  that means that you’ll be saying “eh” instead of “huh”.  Besides learning the language (they do speak mostly English in Ontario) you’ll also have learned about the great riding on well groomed trails, that is available “North of the Border”.

There’ll be a traditional farewell banquet in the Wawa Motor Lodge’s dining room that evening.  Some lucky person will be inducted into the Hall of Shame.  It means this vacation is almost at an end.

There’s still a morning of riding to Hawk Junction where we load ourselves, our luggage and our trusty sleds onto the famous Snow Train.  Sit back and let the engineer do the driving -- the scenery is magnificent, as we travel over huge trestle bridges, with the panarama of  the Laurention Mountains outside our widow – now is a good time to make plans for a return trip to.....Ontario.

INCLUDED:  All lodging, all dinners, all breakfasts, luggage transportation, tax and tips on included meals, and service of a support vehicle, one way train transportation for you and your sled.
NOT INCLUDED:  Lunches, gas and oil, Ontario Trail Permits, guide gratuities.
PRICE: $1390.00, single occupancy add $250.00
SLED RENTAL: $800.00
AVERAGE DAILY MILEAGE:  120 – 180

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