If you saw Craig's video, he lays out what they will be grooming. They will be grooming Marathon town trails, on to Manitouwadge, and only to White Lake, not all the way to White River. That is about a 35 km gap just to White River. If I remember correctly, it is another 110 km to Dubreuilville. There will be a substantial gap in that trail system. I am happy for the Marathon and Mani people but, The Dubreuilville community of riders will be/is in a pickle at this point.    Hear me out. Last year they closed the D trail between Dub and Hawk junction due to the Hydro company commandeering the trail/bush road to start the new line project to the Dub mines. This will be closed again this season for the same reason. You/we will need to take the Magpie, and trail 6 to Hawk or Wawa. The magpie can be accessed and ridden without a ofsc trail permit via local portages.   Last year Marathon groomed all the way to just south of the hwy519 crossing to Dub, due to a bridge that was considered unsafe for the groomer to cross. Dub was supposed to get funding to fix that bridge, so we could groom to the halfway point between White river and us. That funding was pulled with the new trail restructuring. We also lost the one way trail to Dog lake that wasnt used much by tourers but, still an important artery for the locals. And finally we were told we no longer can groom Dub6 from the d108a to the tracks on the Drey rd, (10km of trail) getting the locals to the portages to fish Esnagi, and Big Kabi lake, and other lakes in that region. So the locals of Dub will basically only have the town trail groomed to the Magpie (about 20km), and the D108A toward Hornpayne (85km). Everything else is closed, or crown and bush roads, where no permit is required.   Do you understand why locals will stop buying permits, when they lose their groomed access on crown land?  In reality, those of us the live, recreate ride there, will be paying for full trail permit and only having a bit over 100km of trail for us. Yes we can trailer, or tour to ride but, I am trying to show how much this region lost.    Depressed in Dubreuilville. Ski

Anyone know if b203 will connect this year or is it broken cutting off all of those trails to north east of moi 😂. Glad I didn't buy permit yet. Thanks! 

Looking at the map today - based on what is red - seems our club looks to have survived quite well - some gaps still as the map evolves - but conditions permitting - from where we are located for our starting point, we still have 2 great ways to access north - then east/west from there, south - looks like 1 way for now - but we'll see as things progress.         

I believe the real challenge in terrain was west of marathon which never re-opened after dist 16 folded.  Regardless this is a good development.  Wonder how far it is from Dubreville to White River.

Well, hopefully they left the trail signs up, and if someone lays first tracks, hopefully they can ride that leg just as a "Wilderness Trail". I heven't been through there in many years. So IDK if there is many areas in there for sapplings to fall in or not anymore? I don't think there is much challenging terrain in there tho - is there?   They may have moved the trail from White River to Marathon sometime over the years, but that was BIG terrain in there! There is litterally winch posts that they use(d?) to winch the groomers up/over, and then right back down to cross a swamp.  I think (?) that was on the east side of Marathon? I know it was Marathon's system, and it seems it was on the east side?   Point being tho, it would seem to me that it would take a LOT more to keep the trail open from White River to Marathon, than between Dubreuil and White River?   ???     .