b'Annual Awardscontinued to improve landowner relations in the area, hold successful fundraisers and has genuinely become a club whose standards are envied by others.The Most Improved Trails Award goes to the Washington Snow Flyers of Orange county. Best Groomed Trails Groomer of the YearWith volunteer operators who run anThe following person has been older and high hours fleet of groominggrooming trails for at least 15 years. equipment, this club grooms one ofIn addition to being a groomer for the busiest and largest sections of themany years, he has provided the Best Signed Trails trail in the VAST system.For thisclub with a groomer barn on his club, its about the properly trainedproperty with heat, tools, and other The following club has a very activevolunteer operators and an excellentneeded equipment.He does all the trail system.Many folks from othermaintenance program which allowsmaintenance of the clubs groomer too.regions come to ride their trails orthem to do such a great job in spite ofLike many other groomers, he forfeits use them as a gateway to head north.not having brand new equipment. his riding time to make sure the trails This club has done an outstanding jobWith four PistenBullys and 117 milesare groomed for those members of the on their trail system and not just theof trails that stretch across the bottomassociation who ride the clubs trail signing. 1/3 of the state, this club frequentlysystem. His club has had a transition A few years back this club washas their work cut out for them when itof members and officers and some struggling. They had major issuescomes to grooming. difficult issues in recent years, but he which resulted in them reorganizing.With riders coming from all around,has remained a constant of the club.Since then, they have grown theirpushing counter numbers to more thanThe nomination stated, He is very volunteer base with recruitment1,000 on a busy weekend, taming thisgenerous and without him this club efforts.They take a lot of pride in whattrail system is no easy task, but thiswould not have survived.they are doing with the club and mostclub performed flawlessly during theBruce Paine from the Sno-Packers noticeably with what they are doingwinter of 2021 and delivered a superbof Lamoille County is VASTs 2021 with their trails.They have improvedproduct to the membership.Groomer of the Year.their program immensely. With 100% volunteer groomer One area that all members of theoperators pushing 8-12 hours on any association probably noticed thisgiven night to get their section of trail year while out riding was how muchback in shape for the next day, the work and care was put into this clubsclub and its steadfast volunteers rise signing. The nomination stated, I didto the occasion on a weekly basis. The not see one place on the trails that amajority of the clubs repair work is sign should have been, but was leftcompleted by the volunteers at the out.clubhouse as well, with only the more The Best Signed Trails award for 2021technical items being handles by the goes to the Snow Packers of LamoilleKassbohrer technicians. County The club is truly dedicated to makingProject of the Yeartheir large membership happy withWhen you have a bridge which is smooth trails throughout the Greenmade from only logs placed across Mountain National Forest. an outlet for over 30 years, located on The 2021 Best Groomed Trails awardproperty owned by the Vermont Fish goes to the Woodford Sno-Busters ofand Wildlife and with an active beaver Bennington county. population which causes the trail to repeatedly become flooded, you get to a point where you have no choice but to address the issue.This club worked in partnership with 14 | Snowmobile VERMONT'