OTB. Agreed. So many people think that most sledders want highways for saddle bagging trips but IMO the reverse is true. It's the local loops that get the wives and kids and families out there and that's what keeps the sport going. If you lose the local loops, you lose that second/third machine that many people have. Less sleds, less permits.   OTB. Yes, I have been/was angry with all the extra work forced upon us this year with trail reductions/decommissioned only to have that all reversed. Slap in the face.   OTB. Volunteer burnout is real!! Especially this year with the ice storm cleanup. Many of us are almost there! Been out 3-5+ days a week for a while. However, I will be going south for a break next week to work on my tan and give my liver a good workout! May have a different attitude when I return. Maybe😉🤷   It's too late to start the trail reopening process. Clubs can't budget that much time towards it now. Plus trails now have a foot+ of snow on them. Maybe next year.

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