b'Club News Hope you have an amazing spring and summer! Join us in the fall for the start of a hopefully great 2024/25 snowmobile season!Michael OHaraHardwick Sno-FlakeLike us on Facebook Ridge RunnersWe had high hopes the season would turn around. However, here we are The Coles Pond Sledders 15C is a loggingwith what seems to be our third mud area that suffered from low snow coverageseason of the year. It is definitely not this year.what any of us were hoping for, but we are working hard and concentrating Coles Pond Sledders our efforts on club fundraising. We Thank you everyone who purchasedThis season was not very long. Weare raffling a 2024 Arctic Cat ZR 200. a TMA from us this season. Werehope that everyone had a chance toTickets are $50 each and only 200 are sorry that it wasnt a better season,get out and enjoy our trails. Marchbeing sold. If you are interested in but hopefully next year will behad not been kind to our trails andpurchasing a ticket, please contact us.better! As always, be safe, respect thewarmer rainy weather had closed allWe are also hosting a dinner/dance on landowners property and please dontof them. We had one last snowstorm,March 30 at the Hardwick American litter our beautiful trails. but unfortunately, warm weather cameLegion. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Taylor Lamberton, Presidentafter and trails remain closed. winner of the sled raffle will be picked Kevin McDonnell, SecretaryWe would like to thank everyone thatand we are also recognizing and buckaroosof302.comcommented on our Facebook page.showing appreciation to our amazing Like us on Facebook We appreciate you taking the timelandowners. Tickets are being pre-and letting us know about our trailsold or you may pay at the door. Stay conditions.tuned for future fundraisers and we appreciate your support. As always, The groomer team worked hard tothank you landowners.keep the base as long as we could.Sue Rivard, Media Manager Thank you to our groom team Shawn,Like us on FacebookTyler, Caleb and Eric, for maintaining Caledonia County Snowmobilethe groomer and grooming the trails. Trail Club We rely on volunteers throughout Those who read my last installmentthe year to help maintain our trail may remember my prediction forsystem, cutting brush, rerouting trail, spring. I was wrong! This snowmobilefixing bridges, putting in culverts and season is an epic fail with no latesigning. CSP would like to ThankLyndon Sno-Cruiserswinter riding. All of our trails as welleveryone that volunteered their time as the entire VAST system is closedand equipment this past year. WeThis is the end of a very interesting as of this writing. Shout out to ourcould not do it without your help. snowmobile season for the Lyndon amazing volunteers! The efforts inCSP relies on its board members toSno-Cruisers with some sections of putting a trail system together andkeep the club going. We have hadtrails in higher elevations having taking it down are nothing short ofsome longtime directors and an officervery good riding especially trail 513. heroic.step down from their positions. WeAgain, we want to thank the area Despite the lack of snow, we still havewill be looking to fill these positions inbusinesses that have supported us this to put as much time, effort and moneyApril at our annual election of officersseason. The club also wants to thank into maintaining a trail system as ifand directors meeting. We want tothe snowmobilers who made special it snowed every day from Decemberthank the officers and directors fordonations to us when they purchased to April. The amount of rain we havetheir continued support over the years. their TMAs. That generosity was sustained over the fall and winterCSP Sourdough Pancake Brunchgreatly appreciated.makes it extremely difficult to removewas held on Feb. 18. We were able toAt our next club meeting, we will signs and close gates while tryinghave the trails open, so we had manybe making plans for closing trails not to leave tracks and ruts on ourpatrons come in via sled. It was aby pulling trail signs and stakes and landowners properties. Then theresgreat turnout this year and we hopestoring them for the summer. Another anxious farmers wanting to spreadeveryone enjoyed their breakfast. activity involves going to landowners manure that has built up from Dec.15Carolyn Girardin, Directorand working with them to repair mud making the clean-up more.interesting! Like us on Facebook areas where snowmobilers went from snow on one part of the trail to snow 16 | Snowmobile VERMONT'