b'Club NewsHardwick Sno-FlakeCaledonia County Ridge RunnersSnowmobile Trail Club Greetings from Ridge Runner As the season winds down, it is a timeTerritory. If you havent been out of reflection and planning. This was ariding, get out there! Our trails and good old-fashioned winter and longconditions are the best they have been overdue! It is frustrating to hear folksin years. Our groomer operators are complaining the day after New Yearsworking hard and out there several that the winter is so long. sorry. ItsTyler Mayo scrambles eggs for thetimes a week laying down the white not long enough for us! Coles Pond Sledders brunch, which wascarpet, as they like to say. With colder Flood damage from 2023 and 2024 isattended by 211 people. temps and more snow in the forecast, still hampering our ability to get outwe anticipate these conditions to to the junction of Corr. 18 and Corr.stick around. We do want to remind 102 in Waterford. Plans for 2025 are toyear; our landowners make our traileveryone to stay on the marked rectify that, but there is an extensivesystem possible. Thank you to all ourtrails. We know the deep powder and expensive bridge rebuild if we arevolunteers, mixing up the sourdoughcan look tempting, but please respect to move forward. The section of trailpancakes, pre-cooking bacon, cleaninglandowners and follow the trails. We just before CA340 is also slated forand setting up the church, and cookinghave a slight re-route near the CA 68 repair, but it is notoriously wet duringand serving the day of the brunch. intersection, so please look for that. As spring, so we are hoping for favorableWe hope everyone was able to enjoyalways, ride right, ride safe, and thank conditions to help get this going.our trails this year. Please considera landowner.Finally, we will make a last-ditchvolunteering for next year. We willSue Rivard effort to connect with the LVRT andneed cleanup/cutting brush crewsLike us on FacebookDanville if we can secure landownerand signing crews. Check back in the permission. fall on Facebook for notices on work Summer well, folks! If you havegroups forming.the chance to spend some timeThis season gave us highs and lows, helping with some of our projects,with a slow start to the season, having please reach out to us by email atenough snow to open the trails, and snowmobilecaledoniavt@yahoo. our groomer having issues. Luckily,Lyndon Sno-Cruiserscom or message us on our Facebookwe were able to use a demo groomer As a challenging snowmobile season page. Hope your winter lived up towhile ours got fixed. We were ablewinds down, it is time to look at what expectations, and that we have a repeatto purchase a used groomer to addmade it a success.of this next year! to our grooming team. We had a few Michael OHara, Club News Correspondenttrail issues, with trees down from highTireless work got trails in shape Like us on Facebook winds, cars in the trails, and somefor another season. Projects had off-trail riding. Riders, please respectbeen submitted to update trails and the landowners and follow the postedapproved. July weather changed signage, whether its a sensitive area, aCorridor 52, 54, and 54A. New stay on trail sign, or even a stop sign.estimates were approved and Always use cautiontrails not onlycompleted.have snowmobiles but also foot traffic.The club wants to thank our vice We can lose trail access if we dont usepresident, Al Beaupre, for working to Coles Pond Sledders caution and obey signage. repair culverts and washouts with his To all those 211 brave souls whoCarolyn Girardin, Directordime. Next, we want to thank Burke traveled out on that snowy SundayLike us on Facebook Administrator Jim Sullivan for his to enjoy our pancake brunch, weeffort replacing the East Burke bridge. thank you for your support. MotherWe also thank the many donors who Nature played a cruel trick and hithelped fund this project.us with a snowstorm, which had anAdjacent to this area, the Town of Kirby effect on attendance for our brunch,road department and the Burke road but we had a wonderful time servingdepartment provided assistance to everyone who came. We thank therepair trail damage, and a landowner landowners who support us everyrestored a class 4 road section.14 | Snowmobile VERMONT'