I Live in Toronto Markham

russell21 · Newbie Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 40

What are the best spots to ride withing 1 hour of markham or toronto that is always butter anyone know good spots ?

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Within an hour of Markham, your best bet would be the Kawartha Lakes region. I'm not familiar with the area, but there's tons of lakes there, so take your pick I suppose.

russell21 · Newbie Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 40

that is further then an hour away so Sad

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Drive faster? Don't know what else I can tell you.

Lake Scugog or Lake Simcoe are the closest big lakes.

Jasmin · Newbie Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 23 City: t.o/bala/london

aceofdymondz · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

hey i'm from markham! well unionville to be exact... i ride on pigeon lake in the kawartha lakes. it takes about 1.5 hours to get there. i have a cottage on sturgeon lake as well... next lake over. NEVER RIDE ON SCUGOG ITS NASTY... PURE BIRD stuff AND MUD IS ALL IT IS...

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

aceofdymondz, yeah I didn't think so. Scugog's a fishing lake isn't it?

aceofdymondz · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

yup pretty much... hehe they replaced shhhhht with stuff...

~ashley

Alter Ego · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 10:10 am Post subject:

lake simcoe is the closest for sure. straight up hwy 48.

there is a public launch in sutton - thats your best bet...

Jasmin, where bouts are you in bala? im going up this weekend if you want to ride ping me an email jnovak@rim.com

arof · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

I ride Pidgeon Lake as well.. I think it's further then 1 hour though.[/quote]

rideawakeboarder · Guest

yeah about an hour and a half to pigeon.. arof, do u know jay poole, jono boysen or blake rowsell? i board with them sometimes on pigeon... jay's dad owns buckeye marine...

-josh

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:

man i run these lakes in the KL....scumgog(sugog), its usually calm in the bay right at the little town. its really shallow and theres muskies in there, and its Bubb Rubbing w00t ass smelly. sturgeon is good, you can find butter by the emily park bridge, in the channel going to lindsay, or depending on the wind, on the fenelon side or bobcaygeon side.

i got gas money is anyone wants to give me a pull.

simcoe is a pretty big lake for around here. its usual.ly got some chop

aceofdymondz, i buy my rc car shiz from unionville, down in like some little chinese store.

ontrider, scugog is just like a way to get to port perry. and yea there is alot of fishing boats and its really shallow so theres never really and big boats throwing big rollers. but yea, there are alot of fishing boats there.\

Alter Ego, where is bala? i got gas money Razz

aceofdymondz · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

hey russell21!

i got your e-mail and here's my reply...

well i ride at a friends cottage there on pigeon. it's my favorite lake to ride on in the area because it's really smooth a lot of the time and not very busy. even in rain you can find a smooth spot. very beautiful lake too. so on a scale of 1 to 10 for lakes in our area i'd give it 10! it's about an hour and a half to get there (bobcaygeon, ontario). i'm not so sure about places to launch but i can ask my friend. i know there's a resort near his cottage too. i'll ask him more questions for you next weekend sometime. also, i'm sure i could send you some pics. i don't have any right at the moment but i'll take some next weekend. i'm having a b-day party up there so i'll get tons of wakeboarding pics for you. also sturgeon lake (where my cottage is/next lake over from pigeon) is really nice during the week it's not busy at all and it's not too bad on weekends but pigeon is normally smoother. there's a launch area by center point landing which is your best choice, also somerset trailer park (kelly's bay, where my cottage is, next bay east from crane bay), birch point marina (www.birchpointmarina.com) and im sure there's others. if you wanna check out my lake there's an event next wednesday called "free pass" where Buckeye Marine and my friend Jay (who's cottage on Pigeon where i board) will take you for a free wakeboard run behind the Marina's Mastercraft X2 at Birch Point Marina. for more infor check out http://www.buckeyemarine.com/pages/page_51.asp .

hope this helps answer all your questions!
~ashley

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:

aceofdymondz, birthday party? boaridng? i can get to caygeon in like 30 mins. hit me up iif you want a hot stud at your party:p

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Do any of you guys ride in Haliburton? I was looking for info on some of the lakes there because I hear some of them the water level drops up/down like 10 feet every year. Are there certain lakes that are worse than others for this?

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:

ontrider, never rode in haliburton, i girl i know does but she doesnt go out that much.

gmarkham1 · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 505 City: janesville

off the subject... my last name is markham.... anyone want to send me a sign?

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

gmarkham1, how much money you got?? and what number do you want beside it?

ahha kidding

dyonisus · Posted: Aug 21, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

We sometimes ride on simcoe, but you are hard pressed to find it like butter unless you hit it early in the AM or just before dusk.

Wasaga Beach is also good if the water is calm, you can also wakeboard on the river there, launching in the Provicial park area 1. Dont try to wakeboard on the river on weekends though, the traffic will kill the ride.

rideawakeboarder · Guest

gmarkham1, i know a chick with that last name... hannah markham... he a relative? she's from haliburton, ontario... Confused

Jasmin · Newbie Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 23 City: t.o/bala/london

rideawakeboarder,
does jay poole have a brother named mike?

cletis · Outlaw Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 181 City: Oshawa, Ont.

Hey Guys and Gals

I live in Oshawa and i'm actually looking for some people to ride with, mostly during the week and the occasional weekend. I normally ride by haliburton but with work it's hard to get up to the cottage.

Ontrider As for lakes up that way, your best bet is to find a lake that is fairly popular in the region because then the gov has installed a permanent damb. My lake is outside oh haliburton, wolf (billings) lake, it has a damb, and is small so 90% of the time it's calm

I was wondering if any of you guys would like to or be able to ride during the week, i'm off at 2:30 everyday, i'm also off on sunday, i will always toss the driver money for gas and i have my boat liscence so i can drive, i'm told i drive fairly well too, i'm not a great rider i know a few inverts and 3's but not consistently, and i'm really looking for riders who will have fun but also push me, i want to take my riding to the next level

Jasmin · Newbie Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 23 City: t.o/bala/london

ontrider, I dont ride in Haliburton, but Ive been there for some contests. I went to Rock the Wake closer to the beginning of the summer, and I went to a couple throughout the summer as well. At the last Xcup the water was realllly low ... im not sure how many feet lower, but the shoreline dropped like crazy

WyLd_ChiLd · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 223 City: Toronto

hmmm I heard that pidgeon is super dirty?..is this true? and cletis how old are you and do you have a car?

cletis · Outlaw Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 181 City: Oshawa, Ont.

rideawakeboarder · Guest

WyLd_ChiLd, i've boarded on pigeon and its fine... it's really nice actually... i dunno where that rumour came from Confused

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

cletis, I looked into it a bit, and I think the lakes drop throughout the summer because they use a lot of those lakes in Haliburton as reservoirs to keep the trent-severn system water levels from dropping too much.

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 22, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

so anyone wanna talk me for a pull sometime? i got $money$, and a board, but i need a vest Embarassed

and a boat:P