Fall 2018 | 33 Club News Newark E-Z Riders Can you believe it’s October? The leaves are beginning to change, and we‘ve had our first hard frost! Just like many clubs this time of year, our club kicked off the season with our first fall meeting to see what projects needed to be done and in what priority they should be done. We try to plan our trail work around various key hunting dates so that everyone can enjoy the woods and what nature has to offer without the noise of chain saws and brush cutters. We certainly appreciate the opportunity our land owners have given us, and we don’t take it for granted! Our first work party will be Oct. 13, where the focus will be cutting back brush starting at our club sign and heading north, making line of sight better and easier passage for the groomer. If you have an opportunity to provide your time to help a club, please do so. It takes countless hours to prep the trails for winter, and as we all know, many hands make for quick work. Think snow, and we hope to see you enjoying our trail soon! Kyle Lazzaro, Vice President newarkezriders.com Like us on Facebook Iroquois Snow Beavers This summer may have dried up the beaver ponds in the area, but we beavers are still busy with some long term planning efforts! Our biggest project will be revising the route on Lincoln Hill to avoid the sap line in Starksboro. We have not been able to find a viable solution to routing around the main line and have decided it was in the best interests of CALEDONIA COUNTY the club and the landowner to find another route. What does this mean? We are looking for some long-term solutions utilizing the Hinesburg Town Forest. We had a successful meeting with the Hinesburg Town Forest Committee, which accepted our plans to utilize the old Economou Road (Eagle Trail) as a corridor trail. We are now working with landowners to find a viable trail to the Hollow Road to reconnect with our existing trail corridor. This will involve multiple landowners and require some extensive trail construction. We have secured a VAST grant to help with infrastructure. However, it is unlikely that this project will be finished by the beginning of the 2018/2019 season. In the meantime, we are looking for some short-term options. It may mean that, this year, we need to use Lincoln Hill Road to Hollow Road. This is not an ideal situation, but it may be the only option to keep the corridor open for the upcoming season. Our hope is that we will be able to utilize existing corridor trails to minimize the amount of road riding while we execute our long-range plan for use in the 2019/20 riding season. Please use the VAST interactive trail map for information regarding trail status and important notes regarding reroutes. Thanks to the towns of Hinesburg and Huntington for sharing in our vision of preserving snowmobiling as an important component to winter recreation in our communities! Thanks also to our landowners who continue to support snowmobiling and help preserve it as a lasting heritage. Erik Engstrom, President Like us on Facebook Iroquois Snow Beavers“Junior Beavers”assist with a“logging operation.” ESSEX COUNTY Brighton Snowmobile Club Fall is upon us, and the Brighton Snowmobile Club is busy preparing for that “beautiful white stuff” to come down. Now that our meetings have changed to the second Saturday of each month at the Welcome Center at 8 a.m., we have seen an increase in attendance. We were pleased to have VAST Executive Director Cindy Locke at our August meeting. She was most helpful with her advice and comments. Our club will once again be sponsoring a free snowmobile safety class. Reg Theroux will be the instructor for the class, which will be held in Island Pond on Dec. 1. Please call Reg (802-673-8954) to register and learn about the details of the class. Anyone,