b'Club NewsTrails did not open until early January and the groomer team has been hard at work, trying to keep a base on the trails. We had a breakage to the groomer. Thanks to Caleb and Eric for fixing the broken part and getting the groomer back in service with only a short down time. Our groomer team is awesome, so be sure to give them a Bob Halpin of the Caledonia Countywave to say thank you!Snowmobile Trail Club roughs out a reroute to services in St. Johnsbury Center.Ride safe, ride right, and have fun!Coles Pond Sledders thank Kingdom Equipment and Trailers for donating Carolyn Girardin, Director equipment to reroute a trail. Like us on Facebookseems like we just get going and the meltdown occurs. If last years weather Caledonia County Snowmobilehistory repeats, we will be in for a late Trail Club winter season that will be awesome! As Yogi Berra once said, This isWe will see! Danville S-Ski-Mo Clublike Dj vu all over again. OurMichael OHara weather this season bears an uncannyLike us on Facebook A lot has happened since our last resemblance to last season! We havearticle. Mother Nature has brought had some opportunities to groomus several heavy, wet snow events sections of our system. The pace ofcausing extreme amounts of downed grooming was slowed dramaticallytrees and limbs. The trail system in however by a huge amount of downedcertain areas looked as if a bomb went trees, not just once but three times.off. Trees were down everywhere. When snow finally fell after severalColes Pond Sledders With limited volunteer help, the club rain and wind storms, the areas weworked many hours and long days had cleared previously were blockedHope everyone had a wonderfulto clear and make the trails passable. again!holiday and a happy New Year.Once the trails were cleared, our groomers were able to pack and start As we prepared to go out to finish ourColes Pond Sledders trail maintenanceto build a base for the trails. full system, Mother Nature turned thevolunteers put in a lot of hours clearingThanks to our groomer drivers, our rain faucet and warmth back on. Onlybrush, fixing bridges, and reroutingtrails have been in good shape despite days after we opened the services trail,trails. Our long time trailmaster,the lack of snow storms. Now after last 2/5 F4, we had to close it down due toDave Brown, stepped down fromweekends rain and high temperatures, a new solar field construction site thathis position. Thank you, Dave, forwe are hoping for more snow to prevented access to the original path.the many years of your time andfreshen the trails. For those able to ride, The owner was willing to work out adedication to our trail system. Our newplease use caution due to water bars bypass and our work in January ontrailmaster is John Eddy and he hasand spring like conditions.this allows travelers to get to gas, foodbeen doing a great job under Daves and repairs in St. Johnsbury Center.tutelage. During the past couple of months, the Our crew of dedicated volunteers doesWe would like to give special thanks togroomers have had new GPS units a great job of rising to challenges andJack Beauparfant, owner of Kingdominstalled which will hopefully help solving problems! Equipment and Trailers in Danville.with the VAST App and club mileage A big shout out to Phil Brown at AllJack graciously offered the use of angroomed. The Ride For $25 weekend Around Rental, (802) 748- 7841, for hisexcavator to complete a reroute onappeared to be a great success by the generous donation of equipment toCorridor 15 at CA 111. Among ournumber of vehicles and trailers in the allow us to do what we needed. Manymany projects that were completed, welocal parking area. Hopefully everyone thanks also to the owners of the landhave had wonderful volunteers givingenjoyed our efforts to make a good for their spirit of cooperation. We areup their time and sometimes bringingriding experience and will consider already planning on improvementstheir own equipment. Thank you formaking our club their choice when next year that are mutually beneficialyour commitment to helping CPSspurchasing next seasons trail pass. to both of us. trails. Please see our Facebook page,As a final note, the club still has It is safe to say that patience withas we will post when work groups areapparel and glasses available for this weather is getting very thin. Itneeded.purchase. The profits of these sales help support the club. You can obtain 20 | Snowmobile VERMONT'