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Chris's FX4

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I live in the small town of l'anse on keweenaw bay. I've lived in the area all my life. The snow we had last year during the snoball 500 wasn't much compared to this year.In houghton and and to the north has recieved 90 inches of snow to date already. I've been lookin into moving the front springs to the mid perch. I read somewhere that this was actually where the shock was designed to work best, but ford wanted a lower ride height. I'm also planning on building a prerunner type bumper/light bar for the front. Otherwise, keepin it pretty much stock. Sorry to hear about the loss of a fellow raptor owner. also sad to hear there's a limit to the number of entries in the snoball 500.Hope to see ya's passin through and enjoyin a little bit of our back yard.
I thought I've noticed more Raptor's than usual in the past year up here, one of them being a black screw. I'm in Houghton but drive a lot between here and Marquette.

And to think this time last year we didn't even have 40 inches yet, and the base on the ground wasn't anywhere near as deep for Snoball last year as it is right now. Needless to say, there is going to be a lot more snow for Snoball this year than last year.
 
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Yeah,they won't be traveling any roads that haven't been plowed in this area. Maybe in the southern u.p. Any intentions of buyin a raptor?
 

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Snoball route is set and approved by the state and it can't really changed. There are alot of unplowed roads that we will be on. Which is also the reason we are coming with more trucks this year for the Prerun.
 

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It's about freaking time one of the many trucks I see up here FINALLY joins FRF. Geez! I live in Marquette but travel the whole UP for work. I got in some nice trail riding around Baraga and L'Anse and from Hancock to Copper Harbor this fall.

This was on the trail in Baraga/L'Anse area...

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Welcome to the board and drop me a line if you head east at all.
 
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We've been to the old humpback bridge over the sturgeon river a few times. usually in our rzr side by side. Did you take that road all the way out to where it hits 41 across from king lake road? Thats a nice ride. When will you be prerunning the snoball,kanakry? We got another 4-6 inches of snow again last night.Any of you guys running tracks or 40s?
 
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Welcome. My in-laws grew up in Iron Mountain (da Nort side) and Norway, so I've been to the U.P. many summers... Since back when the Island casino was just a Quonset hut called the Chip-In.


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