b'Club Newssnowmobile club in your area and ask how you can help. You will meet some great people, spend some time in nature, get some great exercise, and have a great feeling of accomplishment and pride, not just that day but when you are riding this winter. I hear people saying the snowmobile season is so short in our area. It is true theThe Sterling Sno Riders completed four Franklin County Snow Raiders Mattriding season may not be as long asbridge projects this fall. Frechette, Isabelle Frechette, Liannewe want, but the season has already Frechette and Bob Cadieux had abeguntake advantage of it! See you productive day working on the trails. on the trails! LAMOILLEOne work day was held in SeptemberLianne FrechetteSecretaryCOUNTYand we debrushed a section of TrailLike us on Facebook104 between Cambridge and WebbGRAND ISLEroads. We have been mowing andCOUNTYremoved some stumps across from the Fletcher General Storethats the two retired Mikes (Sheldon and Farmer) atSterling Snow Riderswork!Mike Farmer, PresidentOn behalf of all club members and Like us on Facebook volunteers, Sterling Snow Riders has Alburgh Sno Springers had a very strong beginning to the season. Volunteers had a great work The color of the leaves on the treesrhythm in place that allowed us to are as brilliant as I have ever seencomplete four bridge projects between them. It snowed on the top of MountSeptember 15 and October 5. We also Mansfield last night and the islands arecompleted a small trail reroute and transitioning from summer to winter.squeezed in some debrushing and Franklin County Snow RaidersOver the summer our club participatedbrush hogging. The work weekends in the Fourth of July parade. Wealso saw plenty of laughter, smiles There is a chill in the air, its gettingmaintain a section of our many railand club memories being made. Our dark much earlier, and the firsttrails as a multiuse summertime trail.next focus will be trail signing and snowflakes, for our area, are in theIn September we celebrated anotherwe hope to have that completed by forecast for this week. That mustyear with a club outing on the shoresmid-November. We are hoping for a mean it is trail work season! Ourof beautiful Lake Champlain. Thankslot of snow this season and volunteers club has been busy organizing workto trailmaster Neil Christopher and hishave made sure our 40 miles of trail groups, planning the trail path andsister Laurie for hosting the wonderfulwill be ready for it. Venture to Lamoille reroutes, and reaching out to all ofgathering. County this winter. Ride right, stay our landowners old and new. ThisTrail work has already begun on manysafe and have fun on our trails.past weekend I was part of a crewsections. Our staff of trail sectionRob Rodriguez, President that worked on rerouting a sectioncaptains make sure that our entireLike us on Facebookof our trail. We began the day sayingroute is ready for December 16.hi to fellow club members, some weORANGEhave not seen since last season. ThenIf you are on the islands and want to we connected with two separateride without trailering for hours; ifCOUNTYlandowners, one who is brand newyou want a nice picturesque, non-while the other has been allowing ourchallenging ride; if you want to club access for decades. Once the routeintroduce someone to snowmobiling was set and the plan was in place, theon a safe 40-mile round trip; then you crew jumped on the four-wheelers,might want to consider driving to our rode to the work site, grabbed holdparking area at GI1 in Alburgh, jumpCorinth Sno-Scramblersof saws and tree branches, and goton our trail system and see what the to work. It was a big day, but we gotislands have to offer. Like all VASTAs the snow begins (and hopefully the new section cleared and ready toclubs, we do this work for all VASTcontinues) to fall, the Corinth Sno-be part of the trail. Being part of thismembers to enjoy. Scramblers are excited to kick off day reminded me of all the benefits ofDavid Lantry, Club News Correspondentanother winter of great riding! Our being an active member in our club. ILike us on Facebook dedicated volunteers have been busy encourage you all to reach out to thepreparing the trails, working on the 26 | Snowmobile Vermont'