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.
The groomers have been out packing the trails and doing their best with the snow we have. However, they have met up with many sleds out there, some with permits, some without🙄. As a result, the work the groomers are doing trying to establish a base is being torn up and destroyed.
BDSC is asking/pleading/begging that you stay off the trails for the time being so the groomers can have the opportunity to get the base/trails in shape so we can get them open.👍 TIA
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The groomer packed it the other day and there are a couple of issues.
1. There is lots of evidence of sleds going off trail on private properties. This needs to stop otherwise the permission will be revoked and there will be many kms of road running added instead. There are many "Stay on Trail or Permission Revoked" signs everywhere so ignorance is not an excuse. Just stop it please!
2. There is a culvert that a lovely local beaver filled in and now the area is flooded over. The groomer operator didn't feel it was safe to cross and detoured out to the road to avoid it. We will try to address that in the near future when it's a bit warmer.
Thanks, BDSC
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Thank you for your exceptional work given the current conditions!! I seen your plea to keep people from going off trail and risking land owners permission however, the issue is these throttle bandits are not members of this group nor do they buy permits....therefore they do not give a rats ass about right and wrong. The paying members are not the ones causing landowner upset!!! How do we deal with these vermin???
Thanks for your great work 😊
Weekly update.
Yes, I know it's been a while but yours truly was down south for a few weeks but I'm back.
The BDSC volunteers have been busy the past few weeks. We installed "new to us" tracks on our BR180 groomer. Not a fun job. A big thank you to Wib, Al, Gord and Ken S for tackling this large project during the Christmas holidays!!!
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The volunteers were out a couple of times in the past week inspecting the trail from Parking Lot 1(P1) down to Mort's pond.
Note: We can only get down this trail when we have enough cold temps to freeze up all the swamps and wet areas. It is inaccessible during the off season due to the water issues and we have to do all the trail/bridge maintenance during the winter months.
There were quite a few trees down that the team made quick work of. However, there was a monster of a tree that decided to fall across the trail instead of the other way. (Doesn't it always work like that?..lol..) It took 3 chainsaws and 2 hours to cut it up into manageable pieces and drag it away with an atv. It was the largest tree any of us have dealt with in all our years of volunteering!! Afterwards, we did manage to get down to the second bridge and realized that it needed some love. On the second day out, we brought down some lumber and gave the bridge the attention it craved. It was so much fun cleaning the snow and ice off the bridge to do the repairs. Not...lol.. We replaced some crossbeams and added some runners and now the bridge feels loved again and should be good for a few more years. Big shout out to Mike, Randy, Mike A, Mark L, Kevin, John, Jim, Gord, Bruce and Dan for all your time and effort!! Thank you!! We appreciate you!
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As some of you may have noticed last week, a section of the trail was removed from the ITG near the E107. This was due to a landowner, east of the park, not willing to renew and revoking permission. After multiple discussions with the landowner, we now have a conditional agreement and we hope to have the conditions met by next weekend. The trail is now back on the ITG. Thank you to Gord (BDSC Landowner Relations) for making it happen!!
Our groomers have been out packing the trails to help drive the frost into the ground, freeze up the wet areas and establish a base. Thank you to Wib and Al!👍
It's a rough ride out there the first couple of runs. Hope your kidneys are ok...lol...
Logging
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It looks like the loggers have finished on the E211 north of P1. However, they may still be picking up logs near the entrance at Hwy 507.
E108.
We haven't seen or heard about any logging beginning yet on the E108 between the 508 and 509.
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Is this the trail you say is back on the map?
Great work! That tree really is massive!
Thankyou all for your hard work and repairs!..... Is there any estimated time when the trails will open ?
BDSC Monthly Meeting Tomorrow!
Wednesday January 15 at 7pm
BDSC Clubhouse
Hwy 36 approx 1km east of the lights in Buckhorn.
Everyone is welcome!👍
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BDSC would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!❄️🎅
Thank you to all our landowners that generously offer us the privilege to cross their properties! Without you, snowmobiling on trails wouldn't exist.👍
Thank you to all the BDSC board members and volunteers that give more time to the club than most people realize. Kudos!👍👊💪
Thank you to all the businesses and sledders that support BDSC!!
We appreciate all of you!!🙏
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Merry Christmas ☃️
Merry Christmas 🎁
Between the ages of 12 and 15? Over the age of 15 and do not possess a valid Ontario Drivers License?
Then you need to successfully complete an Ontario-approved Snowmobile Safety Course before riding on public lands.
