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.
505 Ice Storm Cleanup/Trail Work Day
Thurs Jan 8 @0930
Cavendish Community Centre
3659 CR507
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The plan is to clear the 505 west of CR507 towards the E108.
We haven't been down this trail since the March Ice Storm so it could be an eye opener! A sense of humour may be necessary!!😉
Bring chainsaw if certified, pruners / loppers, PPE as necessary, lunch, a snack, and lots of hydration. Work gloves PPE as necessary and clothing suitable for the weather.
Snowmobile required.
RSVP or Questions?
Contact John, our Volunteer Coordinator:
ofscbdsc@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
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509 Ice Storm Cleanup
A group of 4 BDSC volunteers were out on Sunday and cleared the remainder of the 509 from Fortesque Lake Road north up to our neighbour's HCSA Trail 9!!!
Thank you to Don, Mark, Perry and Gord for your efforts!!💪👊
They did venture back south to the Greens Mountain Trail on the 509 to inspect the trail, we have previously cleared, to see if the freezing rain last week did any damage. It did some but became less the further south they went. However, some areas looked like we hadn't even been through it before!
The good news is the 509 has now been cleared from end to end!👍👍
We will be working on the 505 in the coming days. I will post the info when it's confirmed.
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Ice Storm Cleanup/Trail Clearing 509
Jan 4@1000
Fortesque Road and BDSC 509
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Plan is to clear the rest of the 509 up to CR503/HCSA Trail 9.
Apologies for the late notice.
As usual bring chainsaw if certified, pruners / loppers, PPE as necessary, lunch, a snack, and lots of hydration.
ATV will be required for transportation to the work site.
RSVP or Questions?
Contact John, our Volunteer Coordinator:
ofscbdsc@gmail.com
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Happy New Year!
BDSC Update
Much has changed over the last month with the infusion of funding from the Ontario Government in early December. Some is good, some is bad.
Trails
The good is that the trail cuts have been stopped for this year and we hope this can be permanent. The bad is we have already removed much of the signage from some of the closed trails.
Groomers
Good and bad.
We were supposed to go down to one groomer for this season. Our New Holland T6 was to go to another club and our BR180 was to be retired/mothballed. We were to get a Husky and drag from another club to be our groomer for this season.
This all changed after the Ont Gov funding announcement a month ago. After about a week +/- we found out we will be keeping and using what we had. Now the problem is no pre-season maintenance was done on the BR180, as it was being retired, but we have been working on it since, to get it trail ready.
❄️Please note. ❄️
BDSC does NOT have control over the groomers and drags, their maintenance and repairs, which club gets which groomer or drag, etc.. It is all done at the District and/or OFSC level.
We will repair/maintain what we can within our knowledge base and skillset. Once third parties are involved, it is the District/OFSC's responsibility and they authorize and coordinate the repairs, purchases, etc., not us.❄️
STATUS
BR180
Since the Ont Gov announcement, we replaced some broken track cleats and did some other preseason maintenance so we can get it out packing. We are waiting on a couple of minor parts to arrive to have it completely ready. However, it did do a small run with the packing plate but it is back at the clubhouse after a few more track cleats broke. It is being worked on now. Once completed, the BR will be out packing trails that have been cleared.
We also don't have a drag for the BR as ours had a catastrophic failure last year. We borrowed a drag from another club last year to finish out our season and it was returned during the off-season. The word on the street is that we will be receiving a drag the second week of January. We will be using the packing plate until it arrives.
New Holland T6
The tractor was serviced in the summer. However, there were a few warranty issues that needed to be dealt with over the summer. Some of them were finally rectified before Christmas and the rest are supposed to be fixed early this week. The drag for the T6 also needs work. The cutting blades are all damaged and need to be cut off and new ones welded on. BDSC got and put in an estimate for the repairs back in March, to be done during the off-season, and 9 months later, finally, there is a company coming next week to do the work. So hopefully, by the end of the week, the T6 will be turning tracks and grooming the trails that the BR is packing.
Trails
509
We will be finishing the north end of the 509 tmo.
We may have to check out the rest of it due to the freezing rain last week. We heard from locals that there were a few trees down.
E211
The BR180 did a packing run yesterday and, unfortunately, pretty much broke through every wet area. However, it will help them freeze up harder and faster.
We will be working on the section between the swamps north of Mort's Pond this week as there should be sufficient ice now to gain access.
Hopefully the freezing rain last week didn't drop too many trees on the trails we have already cleared but we do expect some damage.
We are very frustrated with the cards we have been dealt but we are trying to create the best hand possible.
The BDSC have put in 1200+ volunteer hours cleaning up the March Ice Storm damage over the past 8 months and having our hands tied with the groomer situation is definitely disheartening.
Please remember, we are all unpaid volunteers doing the best we can with what we have. We want to be riding our trails too!!
Pic is from the E211 packing yesterday.
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