Paudash Trail Blazers Snowmobile Club has just over 300 km of amazing trails extending from Gooderham to near Bancroft and from just north of Apsley to the south end of Algonquin Park.
Our trails connect to other great trails going in every direction.
There are services available through our club area (gas, food snowmobile dealers and accommodation) so you can be assured of an enjoyable ride no matter where you go.
Watch for club events like the cookout during the sledding season as well, where you can enjoy a BBQ’d delight and a drink.
Trails Update - Thursday January 8th
The weather gods are not being kind to us right now. We have a warm-up and rain coming later today/tomorrow and we can't groom when it's like that and riding on those trails might make things worse for getting things in order when it gets cold again. You will see that clubs around us are thinking as we are and are making trails red to preserve them. We are going to make the same call before things get messy. As always, please check the ITG before riding and don't ride red.
We have had a number of questions arise regarding the 605 trail, which runs between Harcourt and Wilberforce. It disappeared for a while from the ITG. There was a need to re-align it to ensure that it was correct for the purposes of the funding model for grooming and, in the course of those corrections, it disappeared. The trail has been corrected and it is back on the ITG.
Hang in there, everyone. The forecast looks good once we get through tomorrow's warmup and we are watching the actual conditions closely.
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January 7th Trails Update
We are happy to report that we have made a number of trails yellow in the past few days and continue to work on the remaining ones. We have another update coming today so take a look at the ITG: ofsc.evtrails.com/# later this morning.
The groomer that was stranded on the side of TOP E since New Years Eve has been seen by a technician with the computer and is back at the clubhouse, we believe ready for action. These newer groomers are computers on wheels and we all know how computers can develop gremlins. Hopefully, this one has been exorcised.
Groomers are rolling but the forecast shows a day of warmth and rain and we will be parking them during the warmup. They'll be back as soon as it gets cold again.
We want to thank our grooming team and, in particular, our Grooming Coordinator Darrin S. for their tireless work getting trails ready to ride. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes work that happens when grooming a trail for the first time in a season.
We know that some of you want to know about E110 and we just received funding to do a re-route that is required due to a landowner wanting to develop his property, right where the trail went previously. The new section of trail will be on municipal road allowances, which is good for the long-term sustainability of any trail. The plan is for the contractor to be there soon and, when the work is complete and it has some new snow and a groom, we'll get it on the ITG.
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Trails Update New Year's Day
Happy New Year everyone. We are happy to report that we have some colour on the ITG for Paudash trails (ofsc.evtrails.com/#). Please check for what can be ridden and please remember not to ride "red".
Groomers are rolling, except for one. Our New Holland T6145 is stranded on the side of TOP E, showing an engine code which won't allow us to get it moving at the moment. We are working on this.
We have been asked what groomers our club is operating. Many of you know that we managed three groomers last year and we are managing three again this year but have been tasked with grooming a lot more trail than before, which is going to be a stretch. In total, our district has 2 fewer groomers than last year so clubs everywhere are challenged with grooming more with less. More on this in a future post.
We are managing a 2017 Case Maxxum 135, a 2020 New Holland T6145 Gen 2 and a 2017 John Deere 6130M. These are the same three groomers we had last year.
We look forward to getting more trails available in the coming days and will update everyone when they should be checking the ITG.
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Trail Update December 30 - UPDATED
We are hearing from our groomer operator in the north end of our system that there are a lot of trees down, likely due to the ice and then the high winds that came afterwards. Our groomer operators cannot deal with all of these trees themselves so if you are a volunteer for the club and can help out, please do so as long as you can do so safely.
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Well, the ice storm did happen but, so far, it doesn't look like it is as bad as was forecast. We do have some trees down and lots of small stuff leaning into the trails.
The good news is that groomers are rolling today and things are looking up. There are still some challenges out there (wet holes large enough to sink a groomer and small stuff too) and some ice but we're working through it.
We'll update you again when we have some good news to report.
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