b'Club Newsfingers and now seems like a mirage.COVID-19 but we intend to hold it I hope you all have stayed strong andin 2022, probably in the first week of healthy during this time, somethingJanuary, so save some space for it on we never thought wed experience inyour calendar.our lifetime. If you are holding off buying your What we can all be thankful for is ourTMA, please dont. Clubs still haveOrleans Snowstormerssport. Snowmobiling holds such aexpenses that need to be paid and memorable place in our lives. I believewe will get snow. If you dont plan toIt has been a slow start to the season. the best part is that, no matter what weride, you can still donate to the club,After all the work involved in getting face, our sport will never die. We allwhich is always greatly appreciated.ready, dealing with a host of new get to breathe in that fresh crisp air andHopefully, the rest of January willlandowners, and the COVID issues, I take in the scenery and the mysteryshape up to get the trails going. am anxious to start riding that Polaris! that lies around each corner. For theHopefully we will be seeing you soon.That is why I cannot stress enough the Upper Valley Snow Packers, 2020Stay right and in control. importance of respect for landowners! meant a time for us to navigate aroundThe HUSKY sits outside the groomer the obstacles in accomplishing theJim Wild, Media Managerbarn ready to lay down the magic tasks we needed to get done to haveLike us on Facebook white carpet as soon as the snow better, safer trails for all to enjoy.comes. I must say that all the new Jillian Hatch, News Correspondantlandowners have been very generous uppervalleysnowpackers.comin allowing us to continue our trail Like us on Facebook ORLEANSsystem.COUNTY After some debate, we decided to cancel the Nicholas Gage Poker Run for this season. This is a great event for socializing in our local communities, regardless of whether you are a snowmobiler or not. The health and welfare of all individuals Washington Snow Flyers Glover Trailwinders is of the upmost importance, and Snowmobile Club any promotion that would have put Hope everyone had a good ChristmasWe are happy to finally have hadthat in jeopardy would have been and New Year. So far, the snowmobileseveral inches of snowfall thisirresponsible. We long for the coming season has been less than stellar.weekend. Today, Jan. 18, is really theyear with things back to normal so Washington Snow Flyers has only 4-6first day that we have been able towe can once again resume this great inches of snow on the ground, notgroom trails. Hopefully, with the coldevent. enough to open. Theres supposed totemps this week, the snow will stayWe want to let people know that be a little storm on Jan. 16 which willand we will get more accumulation.because of the new 58 trail in hopefully be all snow to help giveWe understand that everyone isthe Charleston area (Brighton us enough to open. But please checkanxious to ride, but with verySnowmobile Clubs section), the OS-15 the VAST website and our Facebooklimited snow, it was not feasible tojunction is about a mile south off the page to get the latest status: if it sayshave our trails open. Thank you forprevious location. No more riding the closed that means STAY OFF!It onlyunderstanding.Hudson road but just head towards takes one selfish person to ruin it forDue to COVID-19, we have not hadWestmore and you will come upon everyone. Also, stay on marked trails.club meetings. We will not have ourthe reroute. As we await the snow, We have some new landowners andannual poker ride this year. We lookwe have begun talking about next they have trees and berry bushesforward to being able to have theconstruction season and believe we planted, so we do not want to loosepoker ride next February. We are stillwill have some big changes coming our trail because people are riding offtrying to figure out how we can safelyto our trail system. More about that it.Just because you bought a sled thathave our annual raffle, which weas it materializes. Hope everyone gets is designed to ride off trail doesntnormally have the beginning of May. a chance to ride, stay right, and ride mean you have the right to do so! safe.We were able to get part of TrailHope you can get out and ride evenRaymond Rodrigue, President 25 moved off the road betweenwith this late start to the season. Weorleanssnowstormers intersections OE93 and OE29, fromwill update the VAST map and ourLike us on Facebookwhere we had to detour midway ofclub website and Facebook as more last season. We greatly thank the landinfo becomes available. Stay healthy, owners for allowing this to happen. stay safe, and think snow!Unfortunately, we did not haveNancy Rodgers, News Correspondent our vintage rally this year due toglovertrailwinders.com Like us on Facebook24 | Snowmobile VERMONT'