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SPECIAL SNORIDERS SNOMAN REPORT
SMELLS LIKE WINTER
SNOMAN WELCOMES NEW CLUB, NEW ONLINE SAFETY COURSE
BY ALAN BUTLER, President
With summer coming to an end and fall here,
of a snowmobile as well as covering the legal resome of us can smell snow in the air. If the
quirements to operate a snowmobile in ManitoFarmer’s Almanac is correct, this upcoming seaba. Our launch date is mid-November. Check the
son will be great for snowmobiling as the alSnoman website as you will be able to access the
manac is forecasting a cool winter with abovecourse there.
normal snowfall for the province.
This season we would like to welcome a new
After last year’s great season, clubs are anxious
club to the Snoman family. Ste. Amelie Ridge
to get the season underway and many clubs are
Riders was accepted into membership last spring
starting to have their fall meetings. Make sure
and this will be their first year of operation withyou contact your local club if you are interested
in the Snoman group. Ste. Amelie is a communiin attending their meetings.
ty located a little south of
During this past summer
Ste. Rose du Lac. The club
and moving into the fall,
has a very scenic trail sysSnoman has been busy gettem and it will connect
ting ready for the new seawith Ochre River and also
son. The trail numbering
provide a trail to the comprogram that was started
munity of McCreary.
last season will be completSnoman will be hosting
ed this season with trail
the 3rd Annual Snowmonumbers being located on
bile Congress in Winthe new provincial trail maps
nipeg at the Canad Inns
.
Ste
the
new club,
ve welcomes a
and on the club trail systems
Destination Centre, 1415
Snoman executi ers, to snowmobiling in Manitoba.
on the Snoman website.
Regent Avenue West, on
Amelie Ridge Rid
The provincial trail map
November 8 and 9, 2013.
has undergone a major reThe congress will once
vamp—it will be less clutagain offer various worktered and trails will be
shops that will be benefibetter defined and will
cial to clubs and club
show warm-up shelters.
members. Please check the
Every effort is being made
Snoman website for more
to ensure the new map is
information and registraavailable by mid-Novemtion.
Snoman with Ste.
ber.
Clubs are in desperate
Amelie club memb
ers.
The trail signing online
need of more volunteers —
course is just about ready to be
even if you do not snowmolaunched and will be available by the first week
bile and would like to get out
of November. The course will greatly enhance
of the house during the winter and would like to
member ability to gain the required knowledge to
be with a great group of people, join a snowmoensure trails are signed correctly and further imbile club in your area. Clubs are known for their
prove the quality of trail signage in the province.
social activities and great times, so it is not all
Snoman is about to enter into an agreement
work. If you are a snowmobiler, join a club and
with Fresh Air Educators to deliver an online
become part of a group that promotes a great
snowmobile safety course. This online course
recreational activity that is not only fun but also
will be available to all residents of Manitoba and
good for your health and well-being. Get out and
is intended to target new snowmobilers. The
enjoy our great Manitoba winter wonderland.
course will cover all facets of the safe operation
See you on the trail!
>> SNOMAN
EXECUTIVE
President
Alan Butler,
Snowtraxx Snowmobile Club Inc.
Vice-President
Sylvain Paquet,
Dauphin Snowmobile Club
Treasurer
Albert Wyborn,
Valleyview Sno-Riders Inc.
Secretary
Bill Musey, Swan Valley
Snowmobile Association
Past President
Ernie Smelski,
Whiteshell Snowmobile Club
Snoman Inc.
Ken Lucko,
Executive Director,
2121 Henderson Hwy.,
Winnipeg, MB R2G 1P8
Ph. (204) 940-7533
Fax (204) 940-7531
Email: [email protected]
Directors
Central Region
Allen Cuthbert,
Club Snow Inc.
Kevin Klassen,
Border Valley Snow Goers
Eastern Region
Tonya Kemball,
Maskwa Snowmobile Club
Brad Wall,
Lee River Snow Riders
Interlake Region
Carol Mikula,
Inwood Snowmobile Club
Les Thordarson,
Interlake Snow Trackers
Northern Region
Kelly Martens,
Thompson Trailbreakers
Dan Taylor,
Kelsey Trail Sno-Riders
Western Region
Bill Musey, Swan Valley
Snowmobile Association
Sylvain Paquet,
Dauphin Snowmobile Club
www.snoman.mb.ca
www.snoman.mb.ca
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NEWS
An epic riding season
payouts, there is always something to work on.
We are excited to tell you what will be new for
the 2013/2014 season. First the maps: the Snoman board has implemented a trail numbering
system that lists east/west trails as two-digit odd
numbers (purple on the map), north/south will be
two-digit even numbers (orange on the map), and
club trails are three digits (green on the map).
These changes, along with signage, will enable
riders to know where they are on the trail system.
Also, on the club website trail maps, if you click
on the Shelter icon, the co-ordinates for that shelter will appear.
In order to be proactive with regard to education and safety, the Snoman board will be providing an online snowmobile safety course this
winter. We are working with the company Fresh
Air Educators, which has a great deal of experience in developing online training courses. The
course will have a nominal fee and will be on a
voluntary basis only. So, whether you are a new
rider or an experienced rider, it is always prudent
to learn about safe operation of a snowmobile.
Our member clubs will be selling raffle tickets
for a new 2014 snowmobile again this year. For
tickets, you can contact one of our clubs or the
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We ended the riding season with the most kilometres ever groomed in Snoman’s history:
158,176. So what does this mean to the riders and
to the clubs? The four-month riding season was
fantastic, enabling everyone the opportunity to
get out riding—warm temperatures with lots of
snow equals a great season!
As for the clubs, the riding was great but there
was also two sides to this great season. Clubs are
paid for the amount of kilometres that they
groom; however, there is only so much money to
be divided up by these clubs at the end of the season, so the more they groom, the less that they
actually receive per kilometre of payment.
Today’s ever-increasing capital and maintenance
costs can make economic sustainability for the
clubs very difficult.
We must also remember that a long season is
quite trying on our dedicated volunteers. Instead
of riding they are clearing, grooming, signing
and generally working all hours of the day and
night. So, let’s give them a huge thank you for
their dedication, perseverance and community
spirit. If it was not for them there would be no
designated trail system in Manitoba.
I always find it humorous when people say that
there must not be much to do in the office this
time of year—with trail reconciliation, advertising, raffle draws, insurance renewals and club
The Margaret Gadd story
BY LINDA BUTLER
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attractive set of trails through the valley, which
they maintain year round for the pleasure of the
younger folk.”
In 1970 during a visit to the local Esso service
station in Foxwarren, the owners had received a
shipment of Moto Ski snowmobiles and they
loaded a 1970 Moto Ski Cadet, 250-cc, single
cylinder into the back of the Gadds’ truck to try
out. After a couple of days, Merv and Margaret
returned to the Esso service station to purchase a
second machine. This was the start of the purchase of many snowmobiles over the years by the
family.
Snowmobiling became a very social way of
life. During the years before groomed trails, they
would get a group together and take off across
country for short runs and then go out for supper
at one of the area restaurants. On evenings and
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This snowmobile story started in the late ’60s,
when a couple bought their first snowmobile and
within a day purchased their second sled. This
couple were instrumental in the introduction of
snowmobiling to the community and area of
Foxwarren. It is not surprising, even today, when
a group goes snowmobiling with Margaret that
she is well known in many areas of Manitoba as
well as Saskatchewan. Margaret and her husband, Merv, started with a Sno Plane until they
purchased their first snowmobiles, and thus
began their own version of snowmobile trails—
this was well before most people even thought
about getting involved in such an activity.
The Foxwarren history book, The Fox’s Tale,
of 1989 describes Margaret and her husband as
“enjoying having young people and their friends
visit the farm to Ski-Doo in the winter and to
bike during the summer months. They have an
KEN LUCKO
Continued from left
man Inc. has chosen Variety,
the children’s charity of Manitoba, to be its charity of
choice. Snoman will be working with Variety on a number
of initiatives throughout the
coming year. Flaman Trailers
will again be hosting the
Sled’N Snap photo contest,
and this year North Dakota
will be participating along
with Alberta, Saskatchewan
and Manitoba. So remember
to get your entries in—a Manitoban won last season.
We have just learned that we
will again be managing the
Spring Sneak Peek Show,
April 4 and 5 at Red River Exhibition Park. Last year we
broke all attendance records
and we hope to exceed those
numbers in the spring.
Snoman has booked a booth
at the Association of Manitoba
Municipalities annual convention in Brandon from November 25 to 28. This is a great
opportunity to talk to elected
officials about any concerns
that they have and to promote
the economic benefits of
snowmobiling.
We are currently in the
process of producing an Economic Impact Study in conjunction with Probe Research,
so that we can better share the
huge benefits that snowmobiling brings to Manitoba.
As summer is winding down
and the days are a bit shorter,
everyone at Snoman is gearing
up for the coming season. A
special thank you to the Snoman staff that have worked
tirelessly in supporting the
clubs this year. Also on November 8 and 9 Snoman will
be hosting our AGM and Congress at Canad Inns Club Regent. Come on out for a great
evening at our awards banquet. Check out the Snoman
website for details: www.
snoman.mb.ca.
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BUT LONGER WINTERS MEAN MORE WORK FOR VOLUNTEERS
BY KEN LUCKO, Executive Director
www.snoman.mb.ca
health, you’ve got everything.’
“Lights, camera, action—this has the makings
of a great TV commercial.”
Margaret currently rides a 2006 Arctic Cat,
ST660 Turbo. She enjoys going on group rides
with club members, family and friends. On New
Year’s Day Margaret went snowmobiling with
three generations of the Butler family, and by the
end of the day Margaret had put another 109
miles on the Cat. Not bad for 89 years young.
What is your excuse?
Margaret has ridden all the Snowtraxx and
Thunder and Ice groomed trails
over the past few years. At the
start of the grooming season
Margaret also went on the
club’s BR400 for her first
groomer ride.
In mid-January of 2013
Margaret had an unfortunate
fall which laid her up for the
balance of the season. Margaret said she should have
gone out snowmobiling instead of going to a concert—it
would have been safer and she would not be sitting in hospital.
Some things never change. Margaret is looking
forward to next season but she has decided not to
replace her Cat. Like the Brandon Sun article
from 2005 indicated, this would make a great
commercial for remaining active and involved.
We all look forward to riding with Margaret in
the 2013/2014 snowmobile season.
Snowtraxx advocates recycling
BY LINDA BUTLER
As a result of the meeting with Recycle Everywhere and information obtained, the Snowtraxx
Snowmobile Club decided to participate in this
program and ordered enough containers to service all our shelters, inside and outside, as well as
containers for all our kiosks located along our
trails.
The club is very pleased to report the Recycle
Everywhere program was very well received by
snowmobilers and we found that we had a significant reduction in beverage containers left along
our trails as well as on the ground at our shelters
and major stopping locations. This not only saves
our club from doing many hours of cleanup during the season but more importantly was also appreciated by our many landowners.
We also wish to thank all the snowmobilers for
providing us with their support by using the containers on the trails and at the shelters. It only
takes a small amount of time to collect all the
containers and clean them out and deliver the
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Last fall while working at the Snoman booth at
the Provincial Municipal Convention, the Snowtraxx Snowmobile Club consulted with the Recycle Everywhere booth.
Recycle Everywhere travels to events in communities throughout Manitoba to help promote
beverage container recycling. Recycle Everywhere will attend your community events and set
up its display tent along with bags and bins at optimal locations for use during your event. The
team also looks after servicing the bins during
the event.
Manitoba is the first province in Canada to implement this type of program. The Manitoba government has a 75 per cent recovery rate target for
beverage containers purchased and consumed in
the province. The two-cent container recycling
fee for each beverage container supports the Recycle Everywhere program. The container recycling fee funds Recycle Everywhere’s entire
program including the recycling bins and the promotion and education activities.
>> CLUB
NEWS
Snoman welcomes
Shirley Livingstone
Shirley is the newest member of the Snoman Inc. staff.
She joined the office in midApril of this year as Snofund
administrator.
As a child Shirley lived in
Winnipeg. Once a year, the
local community club held a
winter fair. They would set up
a circular track and give the
children snowmobile rides.
For many of the children attending this was their only opportunity to snowmobile and
was a much-anticipated event.
Shirley moved to the Anola
area with her family as a
teenager. It wasn’t till then
that she was able to experience the true joy of riding the
trails with friends and family.
Some of her fondest memories
of snowmobiling are of riding
with the young people’s group
in the area and sitting back afterwards to enjoy hot chocolate and snacks. Shirley now
lives in the Anola area with
her own family, her husband,
Jeff, and her two wonderful
daughters. She enjoys camping with her family, cycling,
Zumba and reading.
SNOWTRAXX ADVOCATES
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drink containers to our local
recycle areas. Snowtraxx recommends that all clubs should
get involved in this program.
If you require more information on this program or to
order containers contact Kyle
Schappert at 204-942-5490,
ext. 6, or [email protected] or visit www.
recycleeverywhere.ca.
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MARGARET GADD
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weekends they would start out and go from home
to home picking up other snowmobilers including their children and end up in the valley riding
the trails and playing in the soft snowdrifts.
On February 16, 2005, the Brandon Sun wrote
the following item entitled The Snow Queen:
“Crafts, cards and visits to the local Leisure
Centre are common practices in the golden years
and Margaret Gadd of Foxwarren is no exception
– except that at the age of 81 years, she also hits
the snowmobile trails whenever she can.
“‘I’ve been snowmobiling since my mid30s. My husband, Merv, and I
were married for 59 years and
used to go out pretty well
every day,’ says Gadd.
“‘Since his passing, I still go
out at least every other day
with younger friends like Linda
and Alan Butler, or my son,
Raymond, and grandson, Dean,
if they can make it.’
“Margaret says they started
with a Sno-Plane and tried just
about every brand of machine, though her own
choice is now an Arctic Cat 440 Jag Deluxe that
has all the power and dependability she needs.
“Her most recent run was up around Asessippi
and Inglis for a 161-mile round trip, though she
says most outings are around 100 miles.
“‘I guess I never thought this was a big deal,’
says Gadd. ‘I always say if you’ve got your
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NEWS
Ste. Amelie Ridge Riders
BY COLINE VERHAEGHE
from Roblin Snowmobile Club and the J5 was
The Ste. Amelie Ridge Riders snowmobile club
sold. We redesigned our drag to a nine-foot cut
was formed in 1996. We started with a wideand equipped it with a brush knife, which does a
track workhorse snowmobile pulling a truck tire
very good job of our trails.
to make our trails. That year, we set up our
Our trails now connect Ste.
warm-up cabin on property owned by the Turtle
Rose du Lac, the Narrows
River Watershed Conservation
Trail, Ste. Amelie, McCreary
District. This parcel of land
and Laurier. As of 2013, we
had been purchased by the
have 32 family memberships,
Turtle River conservation
which equal 64 members plus
group to be left in its natural
their children, and 10 single
state and to be used for recremembers.
ational purposes, which also
Most of our members are
suited our plans.
very active in the club
The club later purchased a
t does a
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ie Tu
whether it is for fundraising,
drag from the Neepawa SnowThe Ste. Amelooming the trails.
good job of gr
trail development, maintemobile Club and then a Bomnance, wood cutting or cabin upbardier J5 to pull down our
keep. We are always looking for new members
trails. A second J5 was later purfrom surrounding areas, so we are able to expand
chased and a homemade drag was constructed to
our trails to connect to other communities in the
meet the needs of our expanding trails.
future.
In 2011, our club purchased a Tucker Sno-Cat
A cancer survivor makes tracks
BY CINDY McRAE
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So my journey began on the road of doctors,
tests, specialists, more tests and then when treatment would start after that. I was awake in my
very own nightmare—all day and all night.
First came my surgery in June 2012, followed
by six chemo treatments that started in July 2012
until November 2012. Next was 25 treatments of
radiation from December 2012 to January 2013
slap dab in the next riding season. While I wasn’t
thrilled about the timing, I needed to keep focused. What better way than to do what you love
—sledding and searching the Internet for my
dream machine.
It didn't take too long when you are as determined as me and I found two—one in Alberta
and one in Thompson. Since Thompson is closer
to Gimli, I talked my boyfriend into driving there
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There is nothing like having a passion for sledding to keep you focused while undergoing your
cancer treatments. For most that know me, I am a
pretty determined woman and after volunteering
and raising money for breast cancer research
since the Polaris WOW Relay in 2006 followed
by all of the Pink Ladies Rides for a Cure, I was
diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer and lymph
node cancer.
What are the chances of being diagnosed with
the very cancer that you have been doing volunteer work for during the past seven years? For
most, it’s an unbelievable tale, but oh no, not for
me. I can still remember sitting at the round table
at the Pink Ladies Ride for a Cure in Portage la
Prairie listening to others talk about their journey, only to find out later that very month that I
too had breast and lymph node cancer.
Recycle Everywhere
program is a hit
—by Wendy Dietz, president
of Nopiming Sno-Mads
Last year we all received notice through Snoman that we
were able to order free recycling containers for our warmup shelters here in Manitoba.
As president of our club and
a former daycare person,
“free” always catches my attention. Although most shelters I have visited in our neck
of the woods have long had
some form of recycling container, it’s nice to have one
that is easily identified by almost everyone as a recycling
container. The bright blue
colour with Recycle Everywhere lettering is hard to miss.
Due to the popularity of the
Recycle Everywhere program,
the containers we ordered
were not immediately available. Many clubs and organizations seemed to see the
value in this program and all
liked the same container. We
did receive a temporary replacement that we used during
last season. This summer our
new containers arrived and I
am looking forward to placing
our new containers into our
two warm-up shelters. I have
been a recycler for more years
than I can remember and I am
happy to place the new containers in our shelters.
Remember...
Don’t Drink & Ride!
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Coast to Coast
by Dennis Burns
ISC and Excellence Award winners
The International Snowmobile Congress was
hosted this past June in Green Bay, Wisconsin—
an incredible event with tales shared and even
some we can repeat. The CCSO is very excited to
announce our award winners with nominations
that came in from across Canada. To all nominated, on behalf of all snowmobilers, the CCSO extends a big thank you for your commitment and
dedication to make the trails so magically
appear each year. The following are the
2013 CCSO Excellence Award winners:
Outstanding Snowmobile Dealership - Nickel City Motors from Thompson, Manitoba
Outstanding Snowmobile Club Snowcrest Riders Snowmobile Club,
Gravenhurst, Ontario
Outstanding Snowmobile Family - the Bromberger family: Cliff, Nora, George and Becky of
Westlock, Alberta
Outstanding Snowmobiler - Don Wheaton
from the Miramichi Snow-Goers Club in New
Brunswick
Outstanding Youth - Connal Gurbach from
the Pasquia Snow Goers Club in Saskatchewan.
The Governor General of Canada’s Diamond
Jubilee Medals were created to mark the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s
accession to the throne as Queen of Canada. The
CCSO was honoured in being awarded 14 of
these prestigious awards for our snowmobile volunteers. Please join us by congratulating these
very deserving volunteers in many categories of
leadership in their home province or territory and many for their national and/or international accomplishments:
Gloria Knowlton - Appleton, Newfoundland & Labrador; Kevin Sweetland - Stephenville, Newfoundland &
Labrador; Stan Slack - Lantz, Nova Scotia; Ross Antworth - Kingsclear, New
Brunswick; Gerry Martin - Tignish, Prince Edward Island; Christiane Blanchet - Sainte-Croix,
Quebec; Brenda Welsh - Huntsville, Ontario;
Harold McAdam - Kitchener, Ontario; Ron Purchase - Lefroy, Ontario; Ernie Smelski - Lac du
Bonnet, Manitoba; Bruce Hewlko - Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories; Harris Cox - Whitehorse,
Yukon; Shirley Pratt - Wainwright, Alberta; Nelson Bastien - Whistler, British Columbia.
The CCSO would like to thank our
sponsors for the 2013/2014 season ..
Please support businesses that support the CCSO—the national
voice of organized snowmobiling!
Dennis Burns
Clarity
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It’s almost time!
The cold nights across Canada are making us anticipate
our favourite season—winter.
The sleds are getting polished,
racers are in training, new
product launches are happening from snowmobile manufacturers and longer tracks
seem to be a common theme.
We are all looking for the first
snow to burn some carbon.
Hay Days in Minnesota in
early September is known as
the first big snowmobile show
of the season and the official
start of winter. The crowds
were as big as they can get.
The swap meet expanded to
another new field by Entrance
4 and the main area was full of
vendors offering incredible
bargains. Traffic, parking and
the heat were challenging as
usual and good walking shoes
and a wagon were in very high
demand. The swap meet and
entertainment need to be experienced first-hand to be fully
appreciated. Congratulations
to the Sno-Barons Snowmobile Club of Minnesota who
have been hosting this event
since 1967.
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CANCER SURVIVOR
ness—I was going riding!
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It was a tough season, that I won’t kid you, but
we did almost 3,000 miles and managed to take
with me and it just so happened to be the week of
in some weekend overnighters. To start we trailmy last chemo treatment.
ered to West Hawk Lake for Beaver Days as I
I had been looking for an orange 800 Polaris
was still pretty weak and needed to build up
Assault for over a year and I wasn’t going to let a
some strength and more confidence that I could
little thing like being sick keep me from buying
do it. Then we rode from home to Portage la
that sled. I was so sick that my poor boyfriend
Prairie with some fellow members from the Inhad to do most of the driving there and back as I
terlake Snow Trackers. It was just about the end
only managed to drive from Gimli to Ashern. I
of the riding season, when my
didn’t even take it for a quick spin as I was so
uncle Johnny said, “You altired and sicker than a dog,
ways wanted to ride with me
but it was exactly the sled I
to your sister’s in Cavalier,
wanted.
North Dakota”—so we did
It sat in my yard for another
that too. That was by far my
week or so as I was so tired I
most memorable ride of the
could barely walk from my
season—going across the
bed to my front yard where my
border at night with a nasty
new shiny orange Assault
wind and being made to reawaited me. It had been calling
lped
move all my headgear. I was
and calling me but it took a lithe
ng
di
ed
sl
r
passion fo
bald as bald can be and the
tle more convincing from my
Cindy McRae’stough period in her life.
a
her through
customs officer got quite
boyfriend to just try by going
the shock—first a woman riding
for a little ride to start until I got
with two men and a sick one at that.
my energy back. Well, that was
I continued to have a great season of riding and
all it took, just sitting on my new machine—
what a season it was, but the main purpose of this
everything in me came alive and the next thing I
story is to share with our readers and riders who
knew I was on the throttle and down the channel
may find themselves in my situation—that if you
with my house faintly in the background. It was
are passionate about sledding, you too can aclike someone breathed fresh air into me and my
complish just about anything!
passion for sledding overcame all of the tired-
A fine snowmobiling weekend
BY LYNN BLAKE AND THE TOY SHOPPE GANG
A quick note of thanks to Ken Lucko, executive
seum, part bed and breakfast and part boutique
director of Snoman Inc., for putting us in touch
fine dining. The structure features four wood
with some local snowmobilers/great folks, from
stoves, outstanding homemade food and fluffy
Laurier, Manitoba. They led us on a merry trip
white towels.
north towards Ochre River, Dauphin
La Grange Laurier has been
and Gilbert Plains, and rehosting groups for three seaturning to La Grange.
sons now. Snowmobiling enDuring our snowmobile
thusiasts from Winnipeg and
trip, we were privileged to
around the region come out
have these experienced local
and enjoy the snow, mountain
riders show us the sights and
scenery, country life and
trails around the area. Our sinrural hospitality.
cere thanks to Gerry B., his son
Laurier has a history going
om
ow
sn
es
Laurier welcom
Jordan, cousin Rick and son
back to when it was called
The La Grange ique establishment.
David.
Fosberry. During the reign
bilers to its un
While there, we enjoyed the
of Prime Minister Wilfred
hospitality provided by Lucien
Laurier, the town was so
Boisvert, proprietor of La
French-Catholic-Liberal that
Grange Laurier, located on the
they changed the name of the
east escarpment of Riding
town to honour the elected
Mountain National Park in the
official. The town is more ditown of Laurier. Lucien ofverse now but still as welcomSledding enth
fers various experiences—his
ing. Having such an enjoyable
us
rural hospitalit iasts in Manitoba enjoy th
establishment (which is a
experience mandates a return
e
y in the Laurie
r area.
work in progress) is part muthis season.
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North Dakota joins
online photo contest
—by Lindsay Sanderson,
Flaman Group of
Companies
Snoman has once again
teamed up with the Sled’N
Snap photo contest.
Sled’N Snap, which recently
launched its third year with a
brand new website, is an online photo contest and community forum that celebrates
snowmobiling.
Visitors to www.slednsnap.
com can upload their photos in
a variety of categories and in
April the public will vote for
the grand prize winner. Along
with Snoman, it is put on by
the Alberta Snowmobile Association, the Saskatchewan
Snowmobile Association,
Snowmobile North Dakota
and the Flaman Group of
Companies. The website promotes safe riding and registered sleds and has valuable
information like trail maps
and safety articles.
“I think the contest is a great
thing,” said Snoman executive
director Ken Lucko. “It’s a
great opportunity for sledders
to have a little competition to
see who has the best photos.
The contest has put Snoman in
touch with the other associations and created a friendly rivalry as well. People can see
different places around the
province and see new areas to
go ride.”
One of the new places that
contest participants will see
this year is North Dakota.
Snowmobile North Dakota has
joined the contest in celebration of the international snowmobile trail opening between
Saskatchewan and North
Dakota. This trail will connect
the provincial and state trail
systems at the Port of Carievale. An international ride to
commemorate this trail opening will take place on February 15th.
www.snoman.mb.ca
Sled’N Snap Photo Contest
www.slednsnap.com
Love sledding? Love prizes? Take a photo and you could win!
Submit your best snowmobiling photos online for the chance to win a trailer! Visit www.slednsnap.com to enter
this year’s Sled’N Snap photo contest. This exciting photo contest is brought to you by the Flaman Group of
Companies, the Saskatchewan Snowmobile Association, the Alberta Snowmobile Association, Snowmobilers of
Manitoba and Snowmobile North Dakota. All winter long, capture your favourite sledding moments and upload
them to the website in a variety of categories.
1. Trail/Scenery/Wildlife shots
2. Action!
3. Club Rides/Events
4. Buried! (Got the Powder Blues)
5. Shelters/Trailers
6. Youth/Family
Just by entering you could win an Aluma two-place aluminum
tilt trailer—there’s one for Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and North Dakota! Or you could win the Grand Prize:
the use of an amazing aluminum enclosed sled trailer for one year! There are also other prizes from your local
association. Photos will be judged by an association panel and the public will vote for the grand prize winner.
Sled’N Snap is your destination website for all things snowmobiling. You can check out the trail maps, safety
and riding tips, event calendar, comment on photos and learn all about your local sled association.
Contest closes March 31st, 2014
so sign up at www.slednsnap.com and enter today!
Only residents of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota are eligible to win the trailers.
3rd Annual Snoman Congress
Awards Banquet & Dinner
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Cocktails 5:30 pm • Dinner 6:00 p.m.
Canad Inns Destination Centre Club Regent Casino Hotel
1415 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg, MB
Awards Banquet tickets are available at the Snoman office until October 28, 2013
For more information please call 204.940.7533 or visit the Snoman website:
www.snoman.mb.ca
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One Grand Prize
Choose One of these 2014
MXZ TNT 600HO E-Tec
retail price $12,349
6000 El’ Tigre
retail price $12,799
SLEDS
Indy 800 SP
retail price $12,199
PHAZER RTX
retail price $9,099
“May not be exactly as illustrated”
Winner may choose to accept $7,000.00 cash in lieu of one chosen snowmobile.
*Winner is responsible for pick up of selected sled. Snoman will be responsible for GST. Winner will be responsible for all other applicable taxes*
Proceeds benefit recreational snowmobiling in Manitoba
through Snoman and its member clubs.
Draw Date
February 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Draw Held
Snoman Office - 2121 Henderson Hwy - Winnipeg, MB
DRAW OPEN TO ALL TICKET HOLDERS
License # MGCC 2789 RF
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Tickets $2.00 each