b'Club Newsare not always ready on openinghope that we will be able to have an day because of this and we hope thatearly snowmobiling season again this everyone understands that these areyear. The Brighton Snowmobile Club is some of the few reasons why. If theready to go!green flags are not on the trail for Dec.Our members have been working 16, offer a hand in lieu of offering yourvery hard to have everything ready opinion. But most importantly, thank afor December. The Club held a volunteer. very successful workday this fall at Please visit our Facebook site and theour groomer barn that houses the After a trail classification upgrade, theVAST interactive map for trail statusrest of our equipment in addition Waterford Ridge Runners had to replace anand updates. Fingers crossed for anto the groomers. Many members old narrow bridge. epic year of riding! did everything from painting to Eric Engstrom, Presidentcarpentry, and things are in tip top Like us on Facebook shape. We thank Stacey Roese, who that pass by at the same time. Comespent countless hours preparing and enjoy our trails and you wont beESSEXorganizing all the stakes and trail disappointed! COUNTY marking signs that we use for our 126 Mike OHara, Presidentmiles of groomed trails. Craig Warner Like us on Facebook made Trailmaster Reno Gervaiss life a lot easier by loaning us his excavator to use for trail projects. Pete CHITTENDEN Pedersen pounded the pavement with COUNTY tremendous success for our Business Brighton Snowmobile Club for Trails Project. Shelley DAmato and Sue Purdell produced a beautiful As I sit here in November writing this2020 snowmobile calendar, which is article, I am watching the snow comeon sale locally. Marilyn Maxwell heads down and the thermometer drop toup the volunteer membership team about 20 degrees. It gives me greatand is responsible for all our Trail Pass Iroquois Snow Beavers sales (TMA). There are many other Snowmobiling in Chittenden county is not easy. The landscape doesntProtecting your rideseem to stay the same from one year to the next. Land has changed hands in our territory many times over the past 510 years. We have met many new landowners on our trail system. This has also led to many adjustments to our trails course. Mother Nature has also had a hand in making sure that we stay busy. A few work days over several weekends have been productive, yet due to unprecedented flooding in our area, we are concerned about some areas where our trails cross water. We respect our farmers which need to harvest food for their animals and need to fertilize, as well as the hunting season which leads into ours. We will always respect the wishes ofso you can enjoy yoursour landowners.Ninety-nine percent of our volunteersLet us take care of finding you the bestwork full-time, have young families,insurance to protect your snowmobile soand thus work 75 percent of the week.you can focus on the trails ahead of you.There are very small windows of time in which our volunteers are required to prioritize snowmobiling in lieu of802-685-3885other plans so that we can ride thewww.mkrichardsonagency.comupcoming year. Our small clubs trails Early Winter 2019 | 25'