b'Club Newsand everything else needed to be ready for the season. Volunteers are finishing up our trail signage this weekend, and we will be awaiting the snow and the opening of the trails in December!Newark E-Z Riders Stephen Leedy, President Like us on FacebookWell, another riding season is upon us again. Its been a strange year, to say the least, but I hope we can all getNewark E-Z Riders Trailmaster MarkCHITTENDENout and enjoy a great riding season.Ellingwood clears logs at the Brown Pond In the off-season, Newark E-Z ridersbridge project.COUNTYtook on the largest project the club and its members have ever tackled.and 18. This was a group effort from We did a trail relocation on the Brownmany of our club volunteers, chain saw Pond fish and wildlife property. Thiswork, moving brush and logs, welding meant installing a 40 bridge over theand decking the bridge, and final clean outlet just to the north of the pond.up and seeding. A big thanks goes out Permitting and planning startedto our trailmaster, Mark Ellingwood,Iroquois Snow Beaversmonths ago, but the club memberswho oversaw all aspects of this project broke ground and began clearing thefrom start to finish. Without his hardContinuous, incremental trail the weekend of Oct. 4. We hired awork and dedication, this would notimprovements. Thats how a small local contractor to come in and do sitehave been completed this year. Thanksclub like the Iroquois Snow Beavers preparation, move the steel I-beamsto our core group of volunteers, whohas to manage its 25 miles of trails and large blocks needed to shore upstep up and work as needed, not onlythrough Chittenden county. Some both sides. The I-beams were installedon this project, but on debrushing,other clubs might say. Pfffffffft, 25 on time, and the bridge was weldedsigning, feeding the crew on work day,miles is nothing! But when your and decked the weekend of Oct. 17membership is less than 100, and you 26 | Snowmobile VERMONT'