Rob Knapton, our Grooming Coordinator for the past two seasons, has decided to step down to pursue other activities. The club would like to thank Rob for his work, both on the trails during the grooming season as well as pre- and post-season work around the clubhouse and on the equipment. We will miss Rob’s knowledge of the area and of many of the landowners and wish him all the best in the future.

The club will be looking to replace Rob for next season and is also looking for a Trails Coordinator. We will be posting role descriptions in the near future for those that might be interested in working with the club to develop the trails and/or in leading grooming operations.

We regret to announce that Brian McKinlay has decided to resign from the club Executive as President and Treasurer, effective at the end of March 2018. The Board would like to thank Brian for his hard work addressing the challenges arising from limited funding for our club, poor winter weather and areas where landowners have withdrawn permission for our trails. Brian has also played an important role as a member of the District Board of Directors, as a member of the District Grooming Committee (which resulted in our club getting 2 new groomers in the past 2 seasons) and in the club’s implementation of More on the Snow (MOTS). Brian will continue to be involved with the club and has offered to assist wherever he can in the transition.

The club will be looking for a new President and Treasurer. As always, we invite anyone who has considered getting involved in snowmobiling to come out to monthly Board meetings and get involved. We have an engaged Board and volunteer base and are working on a number of important initiatives for trail re-routes and would really appreciate additional help.

We had been hoping for a big dump of snow to somehow rescue our season, but it just has not happened. Some clubs north and east of us have managed to get a few trails open on their trails that don't need the same amount of snow to groom. We have a few sections that might be passable, but under a few inches of snow it is mostly sheer ice and there many washouts and exposed rocks and hazards. It was also hard to find something which would make a decent-sized ride and/or connect to other clubs’ open trails. After the amount of work so many have done this winter we are so frustrated how what looked like one of the most promising winters could turn into such a poor one. We will be posting a newsletter in the spring to provide a season wrap-up and to discuss some of the frustrating challenges we’ve been facing.

Unfortunately due to deteriorated trail conditions we will have to cancel the Cookout planned for this weekend. All trails in our system and neighbour clubs are closed and no new snow is forecast in foreseeable future.

Annual Cookout - currently monitoring weather. Heavy rain yesterday and weather conditions are not favorable for the trails this week, so not looking good, but holding off cancelling this event until we see just how the weather transpires in the next couple of days.