The Buckhorn District Snowmobile Club is based in Buckhorn, Ontario, about 25 minutes north of the City of Peterborough. We are a member club of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs, and are one of seven clubs making up OFSC District 2.
BDSC volunteers and grooming staff maintain approximately 165 kilometres of trails through varying terrain, from the east shore of Chemong Lake in the south, to the Gooderham area in the north.
The bulk of our trails are in the Municpality of Trent Lakes, in an area of beautiful Canadian Shield forest once known as The Five Points Trail System – a throwback to the earliest days of organized snowmobiling.
To the west, our trails join those of the Twin Mountains Snowmobile Club in the Bobcaygeon area. On the east side of our system our trails connect with those of the Paudash Trail Blazers and the Stoney Lake Snoriders, leading to the Wilberforce and Apsley areas.
❄️E211 Trail Work Wed Feb 25❄️
Volunteer Request
The BDSC team is going out tomorrow to address some water holes that have opened up on the E211 with last week's thaw. We will need to build snow bridges and/or install a culvert.
Any help is appreciated!
Wednesday
Feb 25@0900
BDSC Clubhouse
CR36 approx 1 km east of the lights in Buckhorn.
Snowmobile required.
RSVP or Questions?
Contact John, our Volunteer Coordinator:
ofscbdsc@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
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Quick update
Be aware that the trees are very heavy with today's snowfall and are hanging lower than usual. Use caution if you're out tmo!!
Some random pics from our groomer operators today.
The BR180 was giving Al some issues way out on the trail today. The hydraulic system kept blowing fuses.
BDSC would like to give a huge shout out to Jeff and Krystle who came to Al's aid with fuses and a multi tester!! A short was found under the rear deck and a trailside repair was made!
Thank you very much Jeff and Krystle!!!🙏🙏 You rock!!👍👊
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❄️Weekend Trail Update❄️
All of our open trails have been groomed at least once this week. Even the 501 was done with the VK and the Happy Trails drag.
Wib and Al have been out as much as they could, when the temperatures allowed it, and they are out there again today.👊
The trails thinned out a bit this week with the warmup and you can see some water running in the bush. Overall the trails held up well except in the "yellow" 508/509/E108 logging areas. It is thin and snirty in there and there is a short section that is bare.
Hopefully we get the forecasted snowfall today and the colder temps and maybe it will be "ok". 🤞
The E211 that we cleared this week will not be open this weekend. It has been too warm to run a groomer through it yet and we also need to check ice thickness in several places before we do. Logging has commenced north of the Buckhorn dump and east of the gravel pit road so it will be thin through there when we do get it open. It was almost bare in some areas when we returned from doing trail work on Tuesday.
We did get to the "Long Pond" on the E108 this week.
This is a 5+kms section north of BDSC 506N, that belongs to Paudash, that we groom for them as the swamp crossing is not manageable with a groomer. Paudash recently brushed/cleared it and made it possible for us to get there.👍
Have a great weekend!!
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❄️E211 Update❄️
What do you get when you combine 10 BDSC volunteers and 7 hours?🤔
You get the final 1+km of the E211 cleared!!!👍
Huge shout out and thank you to Neil, Dave, Tom, Randy, Mark J, Perry, Don, Mark L, Gord and Dan!!!💪👊👍
It was a tough slog through the 3+ feet of snow to get this accomplished!👍
Even though we had many hands, it didn't feel like it made the work lighter!😉
There were so many trees down, much more than we thought there would be.😢 However, we were determined to finally get this trail done!!
I'm sure there are still some trees down under all that snow that will have to be dealt with in the future.
The trail is now finally groomer ready!!
We hope to get one through there soon.
Kudos to all the volunteers that have come out the last couple of weeks to get the E211 cleared!!!👍👏💪
Thank you, thank you!!🙏
Be proud!!!👊👊
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