Appreciate it, the devil will be in the details. If the total is up - that's usually good, however they need to be up at the right price point to be truly good news, and only the OFSC have those #'s right now.   On the bold, that's a positive sign - hoping this is the same across the province - i.e. all trails have been approved to be left alone for the upcoming season.        

Can only answer the first one. Permits sold was in the OFSC's final FB statement/email. I believe it was 86000.(didn't look) Less than 10% increase from last year.(80000). Don't know if that is seasonal passes or all passes combined. Believe it is the latter.   Our district(D2) is up about 200 passes. Approx 3%. That's total seasonal and multi-day passes. Our club was up about 80 passes. More than 10%. Largest in our district. Good news is there were less "multi-day" sold and more "seasonal" passes sold than last year. Last year, approx 9.5% were multiday. This year it was 7.9%.    I can guarantee that expenses were up due to the long and widespread season and the March 2025 Ice Storm cleanup. (excavator rentals, etc.) Hopefully the increase in sales will offset the extra expenses. Personally, I doubt it. However, see below.   Good news. The trail we offered up for closure last year(before Dougie sent some funds to the OFSC in December) has been approved by the OFSC to remain open next year. Not sure if we are happy or sad. Note: We never opened it last season. Most of the signage had been removed in November(OFSC mandated/liability) and the Ice Storm damage in there is overwhelming. We still have other trails to clear before we get to that one and install the signage (3 milk crates worth) again.        I

After MY24, all of the 900 XRS went to the same front end height as the Mach.    

It's all definetly dying. I was golfing with a buddy recently - he has an older 5.0 convertible with the motor all hopped up - asked if he had been out in it much - he said once - the price of gas has taken the fun out of driving it.   We'll see how the sledding fares this coming winter with fuel prices having jumped quite a bit since last season.   i know the days I went out - paying for 2 ( my son ) was expensive - and we have a free place to stay and fuel up and back

Everything that was our recreational way of life is dying. Sleds,  seadoos, motorcycles. classic cars, boats. No one can afford it. Sleds most of all due to the short season and ROI. However the real reason is inflation and taxation. Hard to swallow a 400-dollar grocery bill for a 20-year-old and then buy toys like sleds.        I disagree with a lot of that video but anything to get us all talking is a good thing.