b'Annual MeetingMost Improved Trails Groomer of the YearThe leadership and other clubThe following person has been a rock volunteers have worked throughfor the club and their grooming efforts multiple challenges they have facedthis past season. With a major trail over the years and have perseveredclosure due to logging just south of through them all. This club hasthe clubs area during the 2022 season, continued to improve relationshipsa significant amount of traffic was with landowners, including the USDAfunneled onto this clubs trail system. Forest Service and communicationThe initial reaction was terrifying, but with the VAST office, along with thethe club and notably this individual, quality of their trail system. stepped up and did what needed to be With the help of volunteers and localdone.contractors who are part of the clubHe had help form a local contractor and who live/ride in the area the clubin the area, but overall, this person has improved their trail signing alongtook the grooming operations bull their system, rebuilt multiple bridges,by the horns and steered it where it and have widened out and improvedneeded to go. This individual and the trail tread on multiple sections ofhis grooming crew kept class 4 trails their trails through challenging terrain. smooth with class 1 traffic on them, As a result of these collaborative effortsacross an expansive north to south trailseason. There is no doubt he forfeited the club has turned narrow trails into asystem that takes you over multipleriding time to sit behind the controls of beautiful thoroughfare that could rivalmountains and through valleys alongthe grooming equipment but like most the 8-foot trails in the system. its course of unforgiving terrain. operators he would not have it any The club has also increased theirNot a single rider complained andother way! grooming efforts, which have beendespite less than average snow thisLuke Ferrio from the Wardsboro noticeable, especially in conjunctiongroomer and the club kept trails in tipPathfinders of Windham county is our with the trail tread improvementstop shape the entire 2022 snowmobile2022 Groomer of the Year.made beneath the snow.The award for Most Improved Trails goes to Wardsboro Pathfinders of Windham county.10 | Snowmobile VERMONT'