b'Club NewsCHITTENDEN drive sprockets and doing the usual oil and filter. The usual landowner COUNTY permissions are being worked on. Lester Pelky, the owner of Franks Motorcycle Sales and Service, has been out brush hogging sections of Saxon Hill Riders our trails. That sure does make it nice to do the staking. A couple of new Boating and motorcycling are stilllandowners on a critical section of alive and well but I sense that theirour trail have indicated they or their Iroquois Snow Beaverstime is coming to an end. With that,families are snowmobilers, and that the best season, snowmobile season, isthey will work with us to get the trail The Iroquois Snow Beavers have a lotgetting closer! A group of Saxon Hillrerouted on their property. Great news. of work cut out for us. We wouldnt bemembers has been working on theWe of course still have a few more trail beavers if that werent true. This year,groomer; replacing the track belts andchallenges to deal with but hopefully the Snow Beavers are looking to take over the grooming contract and are currently searching for a power unit to go with our (new to us) AMFI drag. Thank you, Hardwick! With the grant in hand and many interested investors, we are hoping to purchase our first club-owned groomer for the upcoming season. With this2974 E MAIN ST, WATERBURY, CT203-755-2682comes many new challenges. First andWWW.LANDNSEAPOWERSPORTS.NETforemost, what good is a groomer if we dont have a trail to groom? It willNEWEST DEALER IN CT!be imperative, more than ever, to work diligently with our landowners to ensure our corridor remains open. We need to maintain our infrastructure to support our purchase. We also need to re-energize our fundraising to ensure that we have the funds to make potentially costly repairs. It will also be more concerning, even more so than last year, that off-trail riding stops. If trails are shut down because of an ignorant few, it leaves us with expensive machinery that is not able to log miles and pave flat trails. Last year was a struggle dealing with off-trail traffic and some bad behavior. It is our job to protect our landowners to make sure it stops. Be advised we will be using trail cameras to ensure that it doesnt happen again.We will be busy as a beaver. Our dams may get knocked down, but we will rebuild. See you this winter!Erik Engstrom, President Like us on FacebookFall 2021 | 25'