b'Club Newsunit. Our older Husky was a greatthat next season will provide more machine and we hope this new oneabundant snowfall. We are grateful for will be also. Thanks go out to all ourour club, for the camaraderie that the landowners that make it possible toclub provides and for the strong group enjoy our passion. Also thank youof dedicated volunteers.to the few volunteers that make this All things considered, trailmasters passion a reality.Paul Racine and Doug Todd did an Raymond Rodrigue, Presidentamazing job with limited snowfall orleanssnowstormers.comand a hard-fought battle with warm Like us on Facebook El Nino winter temperatures. The new Prinoth groomer proved impressive RUTLANDand perfect for our hilly terrain. Our membership remains solid with Orleans Snowstormers have been enjoyingabout 375 members, for which we are their new Prinoth Husky.COUNTY grateful and appreciative.The early March snowfall was too little too late on nearly no base due to recent heavy rain creating open water bars. Opening the trails for just a couple days was unfortunately not an option. Chittenden Dammers We always need to show respect for the As we wind down the 2023/24 ridingproperty of our generous landowners Orleans Snowstormers season in Chittenden (early), we maywho, without their cooperation, we would not be riding.It was a tough What a roller coaster ride this seasonfeel a bit cheated by Mother Nature.decision, but with warm weather again has been. The constant fluctuation inHowever, as resilient hard-corein the forecast closing the trails was temps did not produce a favorablesnowmobilers, we realize that theno-brainer. Lots of carbides and sliders snowmobile season. We had a busy fallup and down winter weather is partgot spared.with trail work, and dealt with someof our sport, and we keep the faith flood damage on our trail system. Luckily, we were fortunate to have only minor damage compared to other clubs. We completed a couple of minor reroutes and a major reroute of Corridor 16. This was a four-mile relocation that took a good threeTUCKER SNO-CATmonths to put together and complete.SNOW Although we received promisingSNOW RABITsnowfall in late November, most wasTRAIL PAVER GROOMING & gone by mid-Decembers trail opening date. We were able to start groomingMOGUL MASTER REMOTE ACCESS operations by mid-January. However,MERRILL LIMB MASHERwarm temps and rain forced us to haltSALES & SERVICEgrooming two weeks later. We did receive marginal snow in February that allowed us to reopen our trails to allow people the opportunity to pass through to higher elevations. Unfortunately, it was not enough to resume grooming operations. We closed trails the third week as conditions would no longer1778 VT RT 105, Newport VT, 802-334-7779support snowmobiling in our area. We held the 29th Annual Giveaway oninfo@trackinc.com www.trackinc.comOct. 1, and we had a very successful 28th Nicholas Gage Poker run on Jan. 27. Check our Facebook for complete info and pictures of these events. In December, we took possession of a new 2023 Husky to replace our 2010 Late Winter 2024 | 23'