b'Club NewsCHITTENDENCOUNTYWilliston Hill HawksThe Hill Hawks are looking at two summer projects for 2020. A section of Corridor 7 south of CN6, Blackberry Hill, is shared with the Town of Willistons primitive path network. Last fall, the Halloween storm increased the erosion damage that the seasons earlier storm had started. Two water bars had been breached. We are waiting on VAST approval of the grantBrighton Snowmobile Club members, the Bolduc and Selby families, volunteered to pick to make repairs. The Halloween stormup trail markers this summer. also shifted one of the 14-foot ramps on the Sucker Hollow bridge. It needsESSEXsnowmobile/dinner raffle. With to be reset and attached to the steel. Wethe uncertainty that the COVID-19 are waiting on contractor estimates. COUNTY pandemic has caused, we cannot Our landowner who owns thehold it at the Legion in Island Pond in property south of the I89 underpassJanuary. We will hold it outdoors in has suggested we open up a coupleMarch at Dave Pages Memorial site at of trails on the property. We plan toEX24, where we will host a barbecue clean, brush and mark these trailsand raffle off a Ski-Doo. Look for this summer. They will be marked asmore details on this event in the next ungroomed secondary trails. They areBrighton Snowmobile Club Snowmobile Vermont issue. We will steep and twisty, and might be a goodSpring may have been early, wet andalso tell you about our newly elected place for the powder busters to playcold this year, but, so far, summerofficers and plans for the winter. We legally!has been hot and dry with just a littlewish you a wonderful, warm summer rain. Just because it isnt snowmobileand dreams of a snowy winter this The drag has been parked in its off- season, doesnt mean that thingsyear.season spot. The Roxor needs to bedont go on with the BrightonHomer D Selby, Club News Correspondent washed, serviced, and looked over inSnowmobile Club, including replacingbrightonsnowmobile.org summer storage. We will make a fewand repairing bridges and culvertsNewark E-Z Ridersmodifications to the groomer shed, soon Corridor 114 and work on other Roxy can hibernate peacefully.trails. Trail markers are picked up and We still have the 2000 Tucker 2000 forrepaired. sale. We sure would like to move thisSpeaking of trail markers being piece of equipment. Interested? Call orpicked up, last fall we took a New email Jeff Fay at Jfayvast@comcast.net. Hampshire couple with us who have Patrick Poulin, Trailmasterbeen members of our club for severalCanaan Border RidersLike us on Facebook years to do just that. They helped usWell, here we are in July. Club put up the signs and had so much funmembers have been working diligently that they asked if they could go withto identify any construction needed us in the spring to gather them backto be completed this summer. One of up! So off we went on 4-wheelers,the main concentrations is finding a on a beautiful sunny day as soon asre-route of the East Branch trail that the snow had melted enough to gethas been lost the past few years due to the stakes out of the ground. Evenlogging. The route has been mapped, the black flies werent too bad! So inand now we are just getting cost essence, not all volunteering has to beestimates in before the deadline.all work and no fun. We are also struggling with the effects The big news this year will be a changeof the COVID-19 outbreak. We lost our in our major fundraiser, our annualannual volunteer-landowner dinner 22 | Snowmobile VERMONT'