The man in charge of Grooming for District 5 has told our Trail Boss very recently that it has to have a pass before opening . At any rate, having ridden up to Linwood today the plowed fields were quite bad and need to have a pass if for nothing more than knocking the tops off them. We weren't going very fast as we towed the toboggan and some of it was brutal.
Bridgeport is doing a reroute around the Ariss railbed as well.
No requirement to have a groomer pass to open a trail. We just had that discussion at our meeting last night.