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.
❄️Weekend Trail Update❄️
BDSC sent our BR180 and our operator Al over to our neighbour, Stoney Lake Sno Riders Snowmobile Club, all this week to help them out while they were having groomer issues. I'm sure sledders in that area will be appreciative of the improvement on their trails! The BR180 has been brought back to BDSC today.
That being said, Wib has been out on his own on our trails daily this week and has done what he could. Unfortunately not all of our trails have been touched so you may see a difference in trail quality in some areas. Some of our trails can only be groomed with the BR180 as it's much lighter and smaller than the T6.
Al and Wib will both be going out tonight and will do their best to get our trails back up to snuff!👍
The trails that are open will remain open.
The trails that are red will remain red this weekend.
We tried hard to get the E211 open from the clubhouse but the March Ice Storm damage was overwhelming and we couldn't get all the way through. Still about another 1+km to go.
Just a PSA.
With the warmer temps, the snow on the trail will be softer so please be aware as stopping distances and pushing in the corners will be greater.
Please try not to spin your tracks and leave mounds of snow everywhere as one guy did yesterday all along the E108 and the 502. See pic.
The groomer followed their "mounds" all the way down to Big Bald Lake. Not cool!
Message from our groomer operators.
Feel free to use the outside track on the 20' wide corners!
Everyone doesn't need to use the inside 4 feet!!!
Just sayin'..😉...lol..
Have a great Family Day weekend!!👍
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E211 Update
6 BDSC volunteers were out yesterday to attempt to clear the trail north of Mort's Pond once again!
Thank you to Jim S, Mark J, Bayne, Don, Mark L, and John!!💪👍
The first 300 meters north of the pond was "pretty good" as some of the trail clearing had been done by locals. Still many leaners to deal with before it's groomer ready. The volunteers then came to the bad area that we wanted to tackle. The snow was deep and the downed trees were numerous. The fallen trees seen above the snow were equally numbered by the fallen trees under the snow. There was lots of digging and cutting to get the broken trees off the trail! Four hours later, 200 meters of utter nastiness had been cleared. Yes, 200 meters and the volunteers were gassed and called it a day!
It is a real battle cleaning up the March Ice Storm damage with 2-3 feet of snow on top and this was a particularly bad area.
The somewhat good news is that there wasn't any more visible "major" carnage up the trail from where they were. Looked like mostly leaners and hangers. Time will tell.
We will be taking the long weekend off and we will try again next week. There is still over 1km of trail to be cleared.
Needless to say, the E211 will not be open this weekend.
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E211 Trail Clearing Day
Wed Feb 11@0930
BDSC Clubhouse
CR36 approx 1km east of the lights in Buckhorn.
Apologies for the short notice. I was plowing.
The BDSC team is going to tackle the E211 from the south side and hope to meet up where we left off last week.
We won't have the BR180 to help us break trail so snow shoes may be a good option if you have them. There will be a few people that have them so not mandatory.
We still have about 1.5kms to clear and then we may be able to see some colour on that trail.
There is some nastiness in there as one of the board members went up to take a look. This is still from the March Ice Storm. See pics.
Snowmobile required.
RSVP or Questions?
Contact John, our Volunteer Coordinator:
ofscbdsc@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
#givealittlehelpsalot
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Found on the 509 yesterday.
Reach out to me if it's yours and I will get you in contact with the person who has it. (Gooderham area)
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