b'Whos In The Groomer?well groomed trails, so being able toWe rely on club members to donateon the groomer with other volunteers help provide our club members andtheir time to complete everythingassisting. Member Steve Lindsay stores visitors with a great experience is verypreparing for and working the season,our groomer at his home during the off satisfying. This will be an exciting yearso one of our biggest challenges, in allseason and allows the use of his garage for Eric while riding with his wife: hisaspects of the club, is getting enoughfor maintenance and repair during eight-year old-son is big enough nowvolunteers. We are lucky to have athe season. While actively grooming, to run his own sled! great bunch of skilled members ablewe are based out of the Fayston Town to do all the maintenance and repairsGarage.MAD RIVER RIDGE RUNNERS GROOMING CLINICBy Lisa Dillon Beliveaudrivers seat to see what each buttonWe are finding that a volunteer Mad River Ridge Runners held aand switch does. In the coming weeks,operator base is not the only challenge groomer clinic for our relativelythe new volunteer groomers will bewe face. Purchasing and maintaining new grooming crew on Jan. 6.Headgoing on runs with seasoned veteransthe groomer seems to be the bigger Groomer Eric Baruzzi gave anfor training on operating the machineongoing challenge. Hopefully we will overview of the machine and walkedand special grooming considerationsbe able to overcome the expense of several new operators through thefor the different trails. owning our own groomer.required pre-run checklist, which includes the mechanical systems, fluids, post-run checklist, and recording process.The group learned what kind of wear and tear to look for on the groomers tracks and plow and were also shown how to check and refill fluids. Finally, they were allowed to jump in the The Crew: (from left to right) Doug Wilson, Eric Baruzzi, Steve Lindsay, Chip Lenz, Stefan Pratt, Mike Martini.(In back from left) Skip Wallace, Forrest Neill.New operators Stefan Pratt and Mike Martini get the feel of the drivers seat and learn about the many buttons and switches within the cab of the machine. Doug Wilson, club member and previous owner and operator of the clubs PistenBully, attended the event to lend his expertise to the new operators. Eric Baruzzi leads groomers-to-be through the pre-grooming run checklist. (Beth Flint photos)Winter 2020 | 13'