I bet 80% of the newly closed trails do not open this year.     Too much work and not enough time or manpower to get them ready.    This early snow does not help either.   

Dougie's trail would have been the first one closed if I had any say in it.

The road run section of trail 55 was slated to close but his cottage is right on the trail basically. Wouldnt have affected him in the least.  The club is working on the mou's and we'll be fine that way but trail 50 for all that use it needs emails sent to ofsc to reopen it. Lotsa permit buyers on the west side of mary lake that are getting the short end of the stick over this.

I agree with you completely. Our club closed a trail on mosty mennonite farmland with 30 landowners and 5 road crossings .  At this point it would be like starting to put a trail in in the fall with MOU's staking and signage. The difference is that now we have too much snow for the club Kawasaki mule to be used and the plowed fields never got any land levelling done to them on any of our trails due to the early snow. To describe it as a crap show would be mild. Not to mention that the few people who do trail work in the club are for the most part tired and not interested in starting this project 3 weeks before Christmas.  If the OFSC wants it done, have at it! JMHO

Well said, I too am angry of all the time, fuel and hard work our club put in to first off get the trails ready last year and MOU signed only to find majority removed this season. I decided to not attend our district zoom meeting due to my frustration.  We are now many weeks if not months behind in trail prep. We hope more volunteers will step up and help out.   On the other hand I am happy local trails are returning as this sport relies on local support not just being a link to the north trails.