TRAIL CLEARING DAY

Every year with the fall season comes trail-clearing time for many snowmobile clubs, including ours. On September 7, our club held its annual work detail while combining it with our annual club picnic. In today’s busy times clubs struggle to get the help needed to complete the tasks at hand to keep our trails open for snowmobilers. This year our turnout was smaller than normal due in part to rain that lasted until 10AM. With that said we still had a decent turnout with thirteen men and women participating in whatever needed to be done. The foliage always seems to grow regardless of whether we have a wet or dry summer season, but with this year’s rains it seemed to sprout more than normal making for a good day of clearing brush, not to mention the numerous downed trees that were across the trails.

As many of you know a section of our South rail bed is permanently closed. The section that’s closed begins right behind our clubhouse and ends at the Pine Creek Outfitters access road. The South rail bed from the Pine Creek Outfitters access road to the Burnin Barrel Bar / Ansonia Valley Inn remains open. Also, the 2.8 stretch of South rail bed from the Log Cabin Inn to the snowmobile clubhouse will remain open.

The North Meadow Trail was cleared and is our main route to our clubhouse starting at the Colton Rd. The trail starts behind the Burnin Barrel, crosses Route 6, and passes the red barn following signs onto the North Meadow trail to the clubhouse.

While the trail crews were busy getting the trails in shape for this coming season the ladies were busy in the clubhouse preparing a WONDERFUL picnic for everyone that included burgers and hotdogs on the grill and much, much more.

As a reminder, we’ll again be pumping 89 OCTANE GAS FROM OUR TANK AGAIN THIS WINTER TO CLUB MEMBERS at our clubhouse on weekends with rideable snow (Saturdays 10AM – 5PM and Sundays 10AM – 3PM).

In closing, I’d like to thank the following volunteers who helped make our annual work detail & club picnic day possible: Jim & June Baney, Dave Frost, Walt & Mary Domarew, Diane Tshudy, Dick Jones, Vic Ferree, and Brian & Nicole Shoop. Missing from the photo was Cheryl Gross who had to leave before the photo was taken. A special thank you to three volunteers from Seneca Resources Company, LLC who helped with today’s trail clearing: Jesse Martin, Wayne Fletcher, and Jacob Trynovich.