b'Club Newsmembers helping to get the job done.Sadly, this past summer we lost a friend and huge club supporter and owner of the Abbey Restaurant.In honor of David Underwood, we have dedicated a section of the MVRT trail adjacent to the Abbey Restaurant in his honor. The Abbey is always a great trail side stop for lunch and The Northeast Kingdom SnowBlasters aredinner!selling pink stakes to put on their trails as aIf you have time to volunteer, please Breast Cancer fundraiser. check out our Facebook page and Fletcher Rough Riders loaded up a UTVattend our monthly meeting every with stakes and signsto mark their trails insecond Wednesday of the month these dedicated people, and I am veryFairfield.at the Abbey Restaurant @ 7:00pm. proud of all they do. If you would likeQuestions? Feel free to call John Ross, to become a member, please join ourscouting out the new trail route.President, at 802-372-1499.club, and get involved. You can go toSeveral days of excavator work wasThink Snow and hope to see you at our NEKSB.com or join at vtvast.org andrequired, and the new trail is nownext meeting!pick our club when purchasing a TMAcompleted. Note that there is now a - or just get a membership. new intersection - LE43 just south ofJodie Ross, Secretary As always, a big thank you to allLE32 on the LVRT. The VAST map hasLike us on Facebooklandowners! Riders, please respect allalready been updated with this new trails you travel on! junction. We have moved our RT 36AORANGEtrail back near Pond Rd, alleviating John Hull, Presidentsome dirt road riding. We also haveCOUNTYnortheastkingdomsnowblasters.comupgraded all of our junction signs with Like us on Facebook the new VAST metal signs, which came out just great. You wont miss our FRANKLIN signposts either as they are now bright COUNTY orange. Our other big news is that it is FletcherCorinth Sno-ScramblersRough Riders 50th year!We sureWinter is finally here according to the have come a long way, along with thecalendar, so we can only hope that it VAST system, over the years. We allis here as well with the snow on the look forward to another great season ofground! We are excited for yet another Fletcher Rough Riders riding our great trails all over Vermont.winter and keeping our trails ready Be well, stay safe and ride right. for you to ride. We Unfortunately, we Greetings! In our September meeting,Tony Audet Vice Presidenthave a major trail closure between our officer elections were held withfletcherroughriders.comOE 62 and OE 60 on Trail 25. We current officers re-elected. Beginning inLike us on Facebook will have this closure marked at mid-summer, we started what turnedeach intersection, but the groomer out to be a very successful raffle ofwill go a bit past these intersections a 2021 Polaris Ranger 500. We wereas we are trying to provide access happy that all 250 tickets were soldto other affected landowners and and so raised a significant amountsnowmobilers on Trail 25. There of money towards a new drag. Thewill be a detour route posted at each drawing was done on Facebook andintersection sign so you can get around live at the Fletcher General Store.this closure. We are hopeful that this is The lucky winner was Alex Tinker ofNorthwest Riders just a temporary closure for this winter, Fletcher Trail News The weatherman is forecasting snow inbut we will have a complete reroute We are happy to report that we havethe mountains and soon in the valley.around the 200-plus acre closure just completed a major re-route ofThis forecast brings a massive amountnext winter. A huge thank you to the RT 104 trail in Cambridge just beforeof work for Vermonts snowmobileWashington Snow Flyers for grooming intersecting with the LVRT. Thereclub volunteers: de-brushing, buildingthe northwest section of our trails 25 were many, many hours spent by lotsbridges, signing, and reroutes. Sinceand 25A this winter! of volunteers securing the requiredthe semi- retirement of Dan Favreau,A couple of other reminders that are landowner permissions and thenour younger members have steppedworth noting based on conversations up as well as an influx of newwith landowners. 1) Stay on the Trail 28 | Snowmobile VERMONT'