I try to keep an open mind on this subject but last year we went sledding for a week in Quebec. it was great riding through the week. Only once did we see ATV's and that was at the lunch stop. Didnt see them on the trail. Then we went out on Sat and what a joke. Those pristine trails turned to junk and mush in the areas where the sleds and ATV's could ride together. Had one guy in a SXS literally try to race my wife intersection to intersection. Couldnt catch us and we werent running hard but if we had let him pass we would have been slowed watching him trying to stay ahead. Our local trails here are now junk at this time of year. All rutted to hell by the ATV's. The wet fail fills the deep ruts with water that takes forever to freeze because the ruts are so deep and you need that really freezing cold to make it happen. This is another reason why our trails around here open so late unless its really cold early in the winter. I would love to have a video of our trails in the fall before the snow when we are trying to clear them for grooming and run another video of the same area once the trails are open. Maybe then riders would appreciate what the club has to deal with on a yearly basis. We have tried to dig trenches in the fall to let the water run off but we have so much clay you cant even set a shovel in the ground to try and trench. We never get ATVers who rut the trails to come out and help maintain them in the fall. ATVers should have their own trails that they can rut all they want and ride the sames ones in the winter seeing as it seems most like the mud and dirt and getting stuck.
Atv winter trails
in Main Clubhouse
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I try to keep an open mind on this subject but last year we went sledding for a week in Quebec. it was great riding through the week. Only once did we see ATV's and that was at the lunch stop. Didnt see them on the trail. Then we went out on Sat and what a joke. Those pristine trails turned to junk and mush in the areas where the sleds and ATV's could ride together. Had one guy in a SXS literally try to race my wife intersection to intersection. Couldnt catch us and we werent running hard but if we had let him pass we would have been slowed watching him trying to stay ahead. Our local trails here are now junk at this time of year. All rutted to hell by the ATV's. The wet fail fills the deep ruts with water that takes forever to freeze because the ruts are so deep and you need that really freezing cold to make it happen. This is another reason why our trails around here open so late unless its really cold early in the winter. I would love to have a video of our trails in the fall before the snow when we are trying to clear them for grooming and run another video of the same area once the trails are open. Maybe then riders would appreciate what the club has to deal with on a yearly basis. We have tried to dig trenches in the fall to let the water run off but we have so much clay you cant even set a shovel in the ground to try and trench. We never get ATVers who rut the trails to come out and help maintain them in the fall. ATVers should have their own trails that they can rut all they want and ride the sames ones in the winter seeing as it seems most like the mud and dirt and getting stuck.