2020 – Page 3 – West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Congratulations to Doug Fisher! Winner of the 2020 Anniversary Indy 850 Patriot Adventure

On February 4, 2020 / Feature, News and Events, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Congratulations to Doug Fisher!

Winner of the 2020 Anniversary Indy 850 Patriot Adventure.

Congratulations to Polaris for 40 years of Indy! And thank you for your incredible support of West Carleton Snowmobile Trails; including the World’s Longest Snowmobile Bridge (set to open next season if someone fixes the insurance)

Thanks to Blacks Corners Motorsports for their continuous generous support of snowmobiling in our area. Thank you Brad and Steve (pictured beside Doug Fisher).

What an incredible snowmobile. The computer gauge & Integral GPS looks amazing…..like a rocket ship. Love the retro graphics (just like your first Indy?)

And luckily Doug has a nice big trailer, so there will be no problem getting to all of the amazing trails that are open. Next year we will raffle off a Blacks Corners Trailer.

Volunteers with your District and Clubs are working hard to get more trails open. Personally, I’m killing time doing a snow dance. We are expecting good thing happening very soon! In the meantime, show support for our sponsors like Blacks Corners, pick up a new trail guide, and throw those sleds in the truck/trailer for some sledding. Check your ITG.

Thanks to all the people who supported West Carleton Trails with our big fundraising raffle. Thanks to Doug Fisher. And thank you again, Polaris Industries Canada, and Blacks Corners Motorsports (Home of Polaris Indy) in Carleton Place.

WCSTAI trail maps now available at various locations

On January 22, 2020 / Trail Guide, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

2019-2020 WCSTAI Trail Guide now available

New West Carleton Snowmobile Trail Maps are available at the following locations.

Thank you to all of our sponsors who make snowmobiling in West Carleton an awesome experience.

Constance Bay	The Point The Lighthouse The Legion
Dunrobin	Nicholls Gas
Pakenham	Centenial Restaurant Karson’s Gas Scheel’s Butcher Shop
Carp	RidgeRock Brewery Pride Marine Yamaha Carp Shell (March/417)
Carleton Place	Blacks Corners Motorsports Polaris CP Marine Yamaha Pioneer Gas Hwy 7 (Tims)
Calabogie	Urban Powersports Yamaha Redneck Bistro Charbaneaus Gas Bogie Gas Ultramart
Fitzroy	Harbour Pizza and Store
Kinburn	Darvesh Corner Store Gas Kinburn Community Centre (rink side)

Important message from the District 1 of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs about trails status

On January 17, 2020 / Media Release, News and Events, OFSC

Message from

DISTRICT 1 ONTARIO FEDERATION OF SNOWMOBILE CLUBS

January 17 2020

MEDIA RELEASE:

MORRISBURG, Ontario – The sixteen (16) snowmobile clubs in District 1, Upper Canada Snowmobile Region of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs have been working very hard to prepare trails and are on the verge of opening pending the snow storm that is forecast. We regret that circumstances beyond our control will prevent the whole system from opening at this time. Approximately 25% of our most popular trails will have to remain closed due to issues with our land use permission. We want to warn snowmobilers that routes using abandoned rail lines are particularly affected and there will be closed gates along many of these corridors.

DO NOT TRESPASS on closed trails and go to to the Interactive Trail Guide (ITG) www.ofsc.on.ca to check which trails are available.

We want to assure our permit holders that we are continuing to seek solutions and if trails become available it will be reflected on the ITG. Please have patience with our clubs because the volunteers are doing their best to provide trails for the enjoyment of the thousands of snowmobilers who have purchased permits.

ABOUT OFSC DISTRICT ONE:
Our district office is located in Morrisburg, and looks after administration and fieldwork inquiries for the 16 clubs. We have over 3000 km of marked groomed trails. The clubs in District One sells over 10,000 trail permits annually to families in Eastern Ontario. The O.F.S.C. mission is dedicated to providing strong leadership and support to its member clubs. It is the members who establish and maintain the quality of our snowmobile trails, which are used in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, for the enjoyment of organized snowmobilers.

Sincerely,
John Boals

District Manager

Volunteering with WCSTAI

On January 17, 2020 / Volunteers

A small group of club members have stepped up to help address the engagement of our volunteers and the volunteer coordination issue, meeting with Eric Mesdag, a Director of the club.

We know many of you have indicated when you bought your pass that you are willing to volunteer and others have contacted the Club directly. We shall come up with improvements to better reach members who are willing to help.

Your interest in assisting you Club is appreciated, Stay tuned.

URGENT NEED FOR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR AND VOLUNTEERS

On January 7, 2020 / Club meetings, Signage, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

You may have seen Steve Burgess’s recent post and the lack of volunteers to open and maintain our trails. Not one of our Members (read YOU) showed up. There was a comment from one Club Member that we did not contact him. Also, another comment that not everyone sits around and reads Facebook.

There is a fact that: too much is being done by too few for too many Club Members who like to ride but do not want to help. I also know that a number of Members have offered to help but we do not contact them.

We are in desperate need of a Volunteer with some social media skills who likes to talk to people to work with the Board and coordinate those people who have offered to help. Facebook is not working. We need fresh ideas as to how to make our Club a community where people want to be involved. This goes beyond trail maintenance to other fun events we can hold to involve our Members.

If you can help, please contact me directly. Email me at paulmcdonald@magma.ca or call me at 613-832-2362. I like to talk to people. Do not message me. Facebook or whatever it is does not work.

As Steve Burgess points out the people who are currently maintaining your trails are getting tired (read fed up). We opened the trails and we cleaned up after the last storm. Who is going to clean up after the heavy snow we just received. Maybe no one!!

A good start is for someone to work with the Board to develop an effective communication plan. Then we can ask for help when we need it from those few other Members who have offered to help. Would one of you please volunteer to take this on? Bring a friend and make it an enjoyable part of being a Member of YOUR snowmobile club.

If you know someone and they do not follow us on our website or Facebook please pass this on.

Paul McDonald, Vice President and Volunteer

New Trail Into Carp Ready To Go

On January 7, 2020 / Feature, Landowners, News and Events, Signage

On Sunday two new volunteers Ryan Grassie and Jake Sinclair worked with me and Steve Munro and helped open the new trail from W20 into Carp. Steve Munro worked with land owners to put the trail in place and brought out his backhoe to clear the trail and put in a pipe.

Thank you all.

This trail has been built to keep snowmobiles off the ACTIVE RAIL LINE into Carp. We have posted the railway as a NO SNOWMOBILE ROUTE. If snowmobilers use the railway we may loose all our railway crossings west of Highway 417. This in effect would shut down many of our trails and access out of West Carleton.

Please STAY OFF THE RAILWAY.

If you have time for a beer you have time to take the trail. There are a number of restaurants and businesses near to the snowmobile parking area that is being provided by Ridge Rock Brewing an the Karson Group.

Enjoy your trip to Carp when we get snow.

Seasonal Snowmobile Trail Permit Info

On January 2, 2020 / West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Ontario Snowmobile Trail Permits are available online, providing you with enhanced security, flexibility and convenience. When you purchase your permits please make sure you specify the club where you ride the most… hopefully it’s West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association!

For permit pricing and OFSC gift cards, please visit ofsc.on.ca/permits

Permit Placement & Additional Information

The Trail Permit is valid only when permanently affixed to the bottom edge of the centre of the windshield, or on top and to the left of centre of the engine cowling as close as possible to the centre of the windshield, without obscuring or being obscured by the registration number required to be displayed on the vehicle.
OFSC Trail Permits are valid only in the province of Ontario and may be used to access any open or limited Prescribed Trails operated by the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs unless otherwise specified.

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