b'Club NewsChittenden Dam trail access site. Sledspeople sign up with VAST. Lets hope are no longer permitted to park on thefor a good season!road due to Chittenden fire protectionRoy Arthur, Vice President/Trailmaster access; however, we are in negotiationsshrewsburysnobirds.org for a new and improved parking areaLike us on Facebookavailable in the open space right off the road across from the entrance to the Chittenden fishing access and boat ramp area. More details to follow.Keep in touch with the Chittenden Dammers at www.chittendendammers.org, Amy CarrsTweed Valley Travelers posts on Instagram and Facebook. OurMike Stewart, Dave Fucci, Steve Taylor,Good everyone, summer has ended meetings are held the first TuesdayScott Ballard and John Solari taking a breakalong with most of the colors of the of the month at the Mountain Topfrom working on one of the Shrewsburyfall foliage. We all at TVT hope that Inns South Lobby at 7:00 PM. Come up early for some great food andSno-Birds bridges.everyone had a great summer. Our beverages; hope to see you there or outvolunteers have been hard at work on the trails. someone on the road. We did notand have made excellent progress Charlie Robbins, Vice Presidentthink anyone would be able to seecleaning bridge decks, clearing water chittendendammers.orgit. If you looked really hard, youbars, blowdowns, deadfall, brush, Like us on Facebook could see something, but you couldand the dangerous widow makers not tell what it was. The club alsofrom the trails. Trail work continues had a fundraiser at Central Vermontand is scheduled through November, Motorcycles selling food at their falland the efforts of our volunteers and Ski Doo event. We brought the Tuckertrailmasters have been exceptional. down, along with Daves SnowWe also want to take a moment to Coach, Alpine, and drag for display.recognize all of our volunteers: Dot, It was a cool and windy day and theChuck, Cynthia, Byron, Ben, Matt, Shrewsbury Sno-Birds turnout was good. We also helpedGreg, Gary, Mike, Bill, Wayne, Jason, The Sno-Birds have been very busy this late summer and fall. Our big project was a 50 I Beam bridge on 4&7. In the process of getting the materials to the site, we realized that a town trail bridge deck was badly rotted. We had to remove the old deck and install skidder planks to be able to finish the big bridge. With Dave Fuccis design, the big bridge went very smoothly. Then we had another 34 pole bridge on 407 that we had to rebuild. That also went very well. A lot of our bridges are getting old, as when we upgraded groomer class most had to at least be decked wider, which was 30+ years ago. Even on the steel truck bed, the metal was very weak and two poles broke taking them out. We have another big bridge we would like to replace in the next year or two. The club has also been very active debrushing and clearing trees. We have gone over all of our trails, but with the winds we have been having, they will need checking again. We also had to move our sponsor board because when the leaves fell off, it was spotted by Early Winter 2025 | 31'