Arctic Cat Alpha One 154 HC in trees on hard spring snow, and why short days can be good days

[@PierresAdventures]

And the award for best narrator in the snowmobile channel category go ...... To Akatarawa Japan 🇯🇵 !

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Also the award for shittiest sound engineer. But anyway, do you never sleep? Too busy running the global supercomputers that interface with the aliens living amongst us?

[@PierresAdventures]

@@AkatarawaJapan i was about too... but you dropped a new video as I was done writing about some snowmobile gear. I can’t wait to be done with writing season and start producing content. Your season looked awesome. Mine was ok spent good time among friends and I may or may not have try a few 22.

[@PierresAdventures]

@@AkatarawaJapan you should do a colab with @Muskoka Freerider where you narrate a video for him. Like a best moment of the season but with your Divine voice!

[@AkatarawaJapan]

@@PierresAdventures Haha. Don’t think he needs any help.

[@PierresAdventures]

@@AkatarawaJapan To me it would be production value ;)

[@etiennem9415]

After your throttle blipping video I cannot unhear it when watching a youtube video with blipping in it... ;)

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Oh man, me too! I have messed myself up big time, particularly in this mega blip video, but when I watch the good riders in trees I don't feel so bad, because the throttle is such a big part of how they get around corners and balance the sled. Next time I'm in this forest I'm going to try super smooth throttle on the same runs and see what happens. Wish me luck.

[@etiennem9415]

@@AkatarawaJapan just imagine you're riding with 12HP, or the Blast M. Limit yourself to 50% throttle.

[@AkatarawaJapan]

@@etiennem9415 OK, but let me have 100% on the steep parts or I'll be wrapped around a tree.

[@wendigo1011]

2020 Alphas are the nicest of all. And 2022 are ugly as f..... Keep up posting!

[@yearight259]

You have a Morgan freeman voice. I don’t know if that’s tour real voice or if someone translates for you but that’s why I like your videos. You make is sound easy and peaceful. And that’s what snowmobiling is to me is peaceful

[@AkatarawaJapan]

The other possibility is that Morgan Freeman is actually a snowmobiler living in Japan. Just sayin'.

[@yearight259]

Haha awesome. Thank you for replying. Anyone Iv evered talked to had never answered me. Almost thought I was invincible. Thanks for the reply. Morgan freeman or not I love your sledding videos. I live in utah in the us and ride a skidoo. All my friends have alpha cats. So your kind of the best of both. It looks awesome riding there. Thanks for the replay and thanks for the videos. 👍

[@AkatarawaJapan]

@@yearight259 Cheers. I'll see if I can get Morgan on for a guest spot. Fat chance...

[@yearight259]

Cheers to you, thanks again.

[@nvfiredog]

Tks

[@jeffbrown8974]

Absolutely

[@lucahoganyt4435]

I agree with you about riding short days, I 100% agree. That's mostly how I ride. I live on 100 acres of perfect snowmobiling terrain, so I take out the sled for half an hour to an hour and a half then bring it back home. I do long rides sometimes with a bunch of other people where we'll be out dodging trees for 6 hours straight but it gets tiring after a while. Mostly because I have a trail sled and I ride off-trail so the maneuverability isn't great 😂 Getting a sled like your's next season. Alpha One, not sure if I'm going for the M8 or the Riot X though. If I go for an M8, it will be a 154. And then the Riot X just comes with the 146

[@AkatarawaJapan]

100 acres-nice. I hear you on the wide track sleds off trail. Rode a classic last weekend that was killing me in 15 minutes. Next vid.

[@jonk2900]

Your opinions on the short track Alpha cat have influenced me to leave the submarine Sidewinder behind and procure a Yama Cat Alpha Max whatever it is. The blue one. Just need some of that white stuff on the ground and can then report back.

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Good for you. Can always fall back on an Alphahawk if it doesn’t work out. Just got first snow here so should be riding before too long.

[@trinitysolutionsoffroad7623]

Did you do anything to make the sidewinder handle any better? I've got 4200 on mine and I technical ride the snot out of it

[@jonk2900]

@@trinitysolutionsoffroad7623 I just changed to Fox QS suspension. Everything else was stock. It was an improvement, but the sled just wasn’t for me. I only have one ride on a stock 154 Alpha Max, and I can safely say I’m back home.

[@Snarge22]

I like it when you do some narration. :-)

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Thanks. Got a couple more coming up that you might like.

[@thatalaskaguy]

How deep is the snowpack you were riding in there? Are the woods so open from the snow squashing the small vegetation down or do they graze livestock in there during the summer months. In the last decade I only got 3 winters where the snow was wet enough earlier in the winter to pull down and cover the alders to allow open the areas up. For the past 7 years the heavy wet snowstorms early in the season turn to rain and all the alders just pop right back up. Even with close to 48” of snow currently on the ground in Valdez, I can’t ride the small hills and areas below tree line because it’s still too brushy.

[@AkatarawaJapan]

The pack is about 2.5 M and falling fast now that spring has hit, so trees are starting to pop back out. Undergrowth varies depending on tyoe of forest cover. Here it’s good in the middle but tight getting in and out.

[@thatalaskaguy]

@@AkatarawaJapan that’s an amazing amount of snow! Our current riding conditions are great. Warm days, roads are melted or melting off, the snow hasn’t gotten rotten, pretty nice.

[@AkatarawaJapan]

@@thatalaskaguy Turning to shite here but should be able to get one more weekend and one more night before the sleds head to bed in the shed.

[@crodles]

I wish this was legal in norway…

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Is there zero tree riding permitted in Norway?

[@crodles]

@@AkatarawaJapan not allowed to go off the trail… that could be a heafty ticket… but then u have the people living on the border to sweeden, that just travels to sweeden where it is allowed

[@AkatarawaJapan]

@@crodles That's tough. I understand having no-go zones to balance everyone's interests, but didn't realize that it was totally banned. Tree riding is the ultimate.

[@crodles]

@@AkatarawaJapan i never though of having no-go zones… like people tree ride ilegaly, all the fing time, its just the police has to catch us in the act, and now that the fine is so high as it is, its a 50/50 on if people run from the police or not