b'yellow. Go to our website and place an order.Our special fundraiser event, our annual Poker Run, will be held on Feb. 1 starting at 10 a.m. The stops will be the same as last year. First prize this year will be $500. We appreciated all The Lyndon Sno-Cruisers replaced a bridge on Corridor 52 that had floated away due toof the support last year and decided to spring flooding.reward the snowmobilers who come out and support us. There will be other The Cook Shack is gearing up forprizes also. Go to the first stop and pay opening day weekend of Jan. 4 and 5.$5 for each hand you play. Draw your The Cook Shack is a great destinationcards at five other stops then go to for breakfast before you ventureWildflower Inn and draw an extra card out or for a lunch break to get youfor $2. All hands are to be turned in by out of the cold and warm up with5 p.m. at EveryBuddys Casual Dining Coles Pond Sledders our homemade soup of the day andwhere the awards reception will be delicious burgers. We always haveheld.As we said goodbye to summer andhot chocolate and coffee ready. WeLarry Dwyer, Secretary fall was upon us, Coles Pond Sleddershave many guest clubs signed up forlyndonsnocruisers.com volunteers were very hard at workhosting weekends this year, so makeLike us on Facebookcleaning and preparing the trails bysure you stop on up for great company, cutting brush back, stump grinding,food and fudge.putting in water bars, painting bridgesCarolyn Girardin, Alternate Director across the trails, as well as reroutingcolespondsledders.com a trail. This group of volunteers spentLike us on Facebookmany days working hard for the trails and we appreciate all their efforts.Waterford RidgeRunnersThank you to those volunteers that went out and signed their sections ofWe have been busy getting things the trails. So, while youre travelingready for the 2019/20 season! Like down our many trails be sure to thinkother clubs, we have had to reroute a of all the hard work Gary Dubuque,couple of sections of trail due to new George Gattone, Peter Athes, DougLyndon Sno-Cruisers landowners and a few solar farms. Luther, Dave Brown and George PeakOne of our trails required a new bridge put in so you can be out here. At last we are experiencing what weto replace the flatbed truck frame that With the flakes flying, we are excitedspend all fall for. It has snowed sevenhas served us well for the last decade. to announce the club has purchasedinches of the white stuff and I rode theWhen that bridge was installed, the its very own groomer. We are lookingshiny blue snowmobile around theRidgeRunners held a Class 4 trail forward for this new opportunity toback yard. grooming contract and needed to groom our trails. We greatly appreciateOur dilemma of floating bridgesmaintain a 4-foot width. Now we are D&D groomers for all their yearshas been taken care of and nowup to a Class 3 trail requiring a 6-foot behind the groomer wheel, andwe are double checking trails forwidth and our undersized bridge thankful that they have given us thedowned trees. At the same time, thecould not handle the upgrade. opportunity to purchase the groomertrail marking has been completedWe try to keep the trails as wide as and share their knowledge so we mayby putting up business advertisingwe can so sleds can pass safely. The succeed this season. billboards, junction signs and 911bridge in the pictures started out as 3 road crossing signs. There are someH-piles (similar to an I beam but special areas of our trails this yearwider) that spanned 60 feet. We decked that require staying on trail or wewith hemlock and fastened the crossers will lose it if snowmobilers disrespectwith hitch plates to keep everything the landowners wishes. A lot ofsecure. debrushing has been completed with Cindy Locke volunteering to help forThe efforts of the volunteers will a day. A special thank you to all of ourresult in a beautiful ride along the volunteers who helped. Connecticut River for many years to Our club has hoodies and t-shirts forcome. We even expanded the width to Coles Pond Sledders members took asale on our website. Hoodies in black10-feet in the (unlikely) event that we selfie while out working on the Corridoror blue and t-shirts in blue, green, orgraduate up to a Class 1 trail system, 18 bridge this fall.but more so for the safety of riders 24 | Snowmobile VERMONT'