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Levi LaVallee won gold during a brutal competition, that included several riders crashing, in the X-Games Snowmobile Freestyle Final at Aspen, Colo. Thursday night. LaVallee's combinations, included a kiss-of-death flip. LaVallee overtook Parsons...

Minneapolis, Minn.- Arctic Cat reported the highest net earnings in the company's history at $44.8 million compared to the prior-year's earnings of $36.1 million. Net earnings for the company's 2013 fiscal third quarter, ending December...

Arctic Cat has added two new members to its board of directors in the fiscal 2013 third quarter. "We look forward to benefiting from their insights, as we pursue continued growth and enhanced operational efficiency," said Claude Jordan, Arctic...

The USCC East the race tentatively scheduled for February 2, 2013 has been cancelled due to the original promoter backing out for this season. This left a short period of time to find a place to step up and take it over. “New York has proven to...

The Eagle River Derby's 50th anniversary weekend commemorated past World Champions. This included Team Arctic racers: Roger Janssen (1969), Bob Elsner (1979), Jim Dimmerman (1984), Wanderscheid (2002, 2003, 2006, 2011); Larry Day (2004); and Moyle...

Winter X Games Aspen 2013 will kick off January 24 and will have 20 hours of live coverage on ESPN and live coverage on ABC. Among the events this year at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colo. will be Snowmobile Freestyle, Snowmobile Speed and Style...

Ross Martin swept the Pro Open class competition in last weekend’s AmSoil Eagle River World Championship snocross event in Eagle River, Wis. Martin won the Friday Night Thunder round by 1.233-second while posting a top speed of 33.692 miles per...

EAGLE RIVER, WIS. – Malcolm Chartier, of Marine City, Mich., won the AmSoil Snowmobile World Championship Jan. 20 by 0.94 seconds at the Eagle River Derby Track, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary. Over 30,000 fans attended. “We...

Tucker Hibbert will race in the Sweden’s Clash of Nations (CON) Super Snowcross event March 28-29. Over 70 of world’s top snowcross and snowmobile freestyle athletes are expected to compete in the two-day event held at the prestigious Lugnet...

The 2014 OEM Model Year Sneak Peek Spring Tour announces the schedule of dates and locations. All four manufacturers will showcase their line of new sleds. Most shows are free to attend and will have factory representatives to give an inside scoop. The...

We’re back from our early season testing, the one where we do our radar runs on the lake, weigh our entire test fleet of 2013 snowmobiles and figure real world gas consumption. Now we gotta tell you that we’d already put some miles on most...

Eagle River, Wis. – AmSnow ’s American Eagle Trophy will have another Goede name engraved on it after Sunday’s Vintage World Championship race here under the lights. Matt Goede, of New Germany, Minn., led from flag to flag at the...

A cold front blew in and sent the third event on the USXC schedule, the Willmar Area Lakes 100, into a deep-freeze on Saturday, January 12. The USXC crew laid out roughly a 10-mile course on the frozen surface of Foot Lake just outside downtown Willmar...

The Snowmobile Challenge for 2013 will be held March 4-9, 2013 at the Keweenaw Research Center at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI. This year 21 teams have registered for the event – the most ever in the history of the event! The...

Head over to AmSnow Facebook page today and register for a chance to win a 509 DVD. Winners will be drawn each month until the end of March.

K2 Sports has acquired Backcountry Access (BCA), a manufacturer of backcountry snow-safety equipment. The move reinforces K2 Sports’ position as a global leader in year-round outdoor recreation. With the acquisition of BCA, K2 Sports will be able...

Yamaha’s Ben Lindbom took a close second and Jake Muller finished third in the afternoon Semi-Pro Improved final at the USXC Beach Bar 200 at Detroit Lakes, Minn. on Saturday, Jan. 5. With 15-degree temperatures, calm winds and blue skies, the weather...

Arctic Cat rider Brian Dick claimed both Pro class wins at the USXC J&K Marine Beach Bar 200 in Detroit Lakes, Minn., on January 5. The one-day event took place on Big Detroit Lake in the heart of the popular resort destination town in Central Minnesota...

Tucker Hibbert made a clean sweep of the Traxxas National at Canterbury Park Raceway in Shakopee, Minn. And in the support Pro Lite class action it was Ski-Doo's David Joanis (Canada) taking top honors and extending his overall class points lead as...

It’s not just the decent snow we’ve had already this season that has us geeked up. We have a new “enclosed” trailer in the AmSnow stable. Just picked up a silver three-place Triton TC227 trailer from the Triton HQ up the road in...

Levi LaVallee has been named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Action Sports on the ESPN X Games website. The honor comes just three weeks before LaVallee competes in the 2013 X Games in Aspen, Colorado. LaVallee was listed as number 19 among the...

When is it safe to ride onto the ice? The Minn. DNR has posted guidelines on its' website suggesting 5-inches of ice thickness for snowmobiles. Before heading out on the ice the DNR suggests contacting a local bait shop or lakeside resort to ask...

Our editors like nothing better than for someone to ask us what we think about snowmobiling and snowmobiles. So when local NPR station WUWM asked us to tell them what’s new this season, well, just try to shut us up! Listen to editor (and noted Motor...

Our editors like nothing better than for someone to ask us what we think about snowmobiling and snowmobiles. So when local NPR station WUWM asked us to tell them what’s new this season, well, just try to shut us up! Listen to editor (and noted Motor...

The four snowmobile manufacturers are supporting and encouraging participation in the upcoming International Snowmobile Safety Week January 13-19, 2013. In 1995 the snowmobile community joined together and developed the Safe Riders! The Safe Riders! campaign...