Ladybird Trail Dec 30th 2023 Trail groomed from Norns Creek turn off to the 19km cat turnaround. All went well with 98cm of base at turnaround and about 8cm of fresh on the trail. Snow was not great in a couple of spots as temps have been pretty high but the tiller does help with the heavier snow. The road up is icy in spots so chains are recommended or very good tires at the least. Unloading at 9.5 km is also an option as parking at 11km is limited and remember weekdays you need a radio as there is active logging. Goose Creek Trail Dec 30th 2023 Reports of the trail to the cabin was still ok. Most people are unloading up at 2.5 to 3.5km as the snow near the bottom in bad. We will be looking at a couple bypass areas to the airport if we dont get some snow very soon. Have a Happy New Year and all the best from the CSA Goose Creek Trail Dec 23rd 2023 Finally some cooler temps out there so the drag was on the trail to the Shaw cabin. All went well with around 85cms at the cabin and reports of 100cms up at the Airport. No chance to get the airport trail in till we get more snow up there. Most riders are unloading up the road anywhere from 2km to 4km. The road is not to bad after the bluffs at around 2.5km but still some rock out there. Road was pretty good yesterday but can change rapidly with this kind of weather, chains recommended just in case things change. Tracked to Frosty cabin and pushed in to Bankerts trail as best as we could. Use caution as lots of the hazards have very little cover. We parked the drag at 4km and the cat is at 2.5km please don,t block the road as we groom depending on weather conditions. Ladybird Trail Remember there is still active logging taking place on weekdays so you need a radio. Unloading at 11km on Norns and 14km East Ladybird. Last week to pickup your earlybird memberships online on our website or in person at Playmor Power Products. Merry Christmas from the Castlegar Snowmobile Association Ladybird Trail Dec 13th 2023 With some cool evening temps and not much in the way of weather, we decided to have a look at doing what we could to get started on the trail. All went well although not enough snow cover to run the tiller at the end of the trail as we needed most of the snow to fill cross ditches. Preobed 85cms at the 19km turnaround. Please remember its early and dithces may open up again with the moisture that is coming off the mountians. If you come across any open ones please try mark them for others or better yet fill them with snow if they are not to big. Parking at 11km is limited so be aware of that and don't forget you need a radio on weekdays as there is logging traffic on the roadway. Attached is a pic of Norns Creek at 15km so you can see the hazards of the past rain please consider it before crossing areas that normally are good and frozen this time of year. Goose Creek Trail Dec 14th 2023 After having pretty good success with the trail building on Ladybird we decided to get started on the Goose trail. With our buisiest time of the year right around the corner, we thought it was best to do what we could. We probed 80cms at the Shaw cabin but the first 2km of the trail has very limited snow on it for cooling and some rocks on it. We removed as many as we could but if you see any feel free to throw them off. If you don't want to deal with rocks and getting hot you may want to drive up to around 2km but the road has some snow on it so it is probably slippery. Its your call might want to chain up, trailers definitenty not recommended and please only drive up as far as you have to. We will put signage up when we start grooming on a regular basis so as to stop truck traffic. Be safe out there and check the avy reports if your heading out. Just a quick update on club grooming plans. Last weeks rain was not so good for our plans of getting started on trail building. Most, if not all creeks and ditches are now full of flowing water with no ice in sight. We normally hope for creeks to freeze up so when we build crossing locations the ice helps hold the snow from getting washed away. Thankfully trails were not in before the heavy rains as we generally only have limited snow to do this with. We will hope for creeks and dithces to slow in the next week and try getting started on trail building soon. Recent reports on Goose and Ladybird are creeks and ditches are open and running still. Snow pack at the 19km cat turnaround was at 75cm. Please have patience as our trails have many large boulders to cover before we can say they are considered safe to use, for this reason we tend to wait until snowpack is sufficeient to do a proper job of building the trails. Remember to get your earlybird membership before Dec 15th to get in on a chance to win one of two AST 1 courses to be held Jan 5 2023. One draw will happen Dec 16th and the other on Jan 1st.Memberships available a Playmor Power Products and here on the website. |
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