Winter transport

Usage examples of snowmobile.

James and Darwin skinned it, carefully, while Renner followed his footprints back to the snowmobile.

The two men were clad in raggedy snowmobile suits that smelled of crankcase oil and bore ten years of decorative sew-on Quest patches.

The stopping power of snowmobiles is remarkable, and with a gap of about ten yards between the Doos, it ought to be possible to avoid collisions.

They drove around in a slow arc, passing incoming snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and snowshoers Farther out, there were car races to watch, and farther still, open patches where ice sailers caught the wind in a stream of vivid colors against the snow.

I chanted it aloud as I filled both stoves with wood, pulled on a second shirt and pair of pants, added a sweater, zipped up the Snowmobile boots, put on the scarf and jacket and gloves and cap and stomped into the back hall like a space-suited astronaut entering the airlock, or a hardhat diver going into the decompression chamber.

I spotted the race marshal and a trailbreaker as they zipped past me on snowmobiles.

But Philippa, he contended, absorbed entirely too much television, was too quick to embrace the extremities of human behavior: last winter, for instance, pleading like a teenager for a snowmobile -- unsuccessfully, of course.

Beneath it was a hand-painted sequence of pictograms with lines through them: NO CARS, NO PEDESTRIANS, NO SNOWMOBILES.

Mitch gave the mike over to Steiger, who added orders and details for the, SO deputies, the mounted posse volunteers and snowmobile club members who would be searching the fields and densely wooded areas outside of town.

Steam rose from under the Blazer as hot radiator fluid drizzled onto the frozen ground, and the ruined vehicle creaked under the weight of the snowmobile embedded in its hood.

Harry and Claude lifted a three-foot bit extension from one of the cargo trailers that were coupled to the snowmobiles.

She had travelled by snowmobile and bicycle, cable car and gravity train, and once took a short trip on a camel.

Just as he gets to the outskirts, the snowmobile develops engine trouble, so the Eskimo glides into a nearby service station.

He could cut cross-country on the sled, along the network of Menomin Flowage snowmobile trails.

The snowmobile engines were running, warming up for the ride back to Edgeway, and their headlamps pierced the falling snow, providing enough light for her to see the first broad crack appear in the nearly vertical wall of the fifty-foot-high pressure ridge that had sheltered--and now threatened--the temporary camp.