Welcome to Snowcrest Riders
2008/9 Season
The 2009 Trail Permits have arrived and are ready to be purchased.
Getting your permit is easy!
Call the Office at 705-687-7921 or 1-800-829-6444 and order it by phone
Fax your Permit Order Form to 705-687-6119
Drop by the office to pick yours up or Visit any one of our distributors
Fill out an electronic version and e-mail it to us.
We would like to thank our Landowners, you are all vital to the sport of snowmobiling, without
you our trail system would not exist.. We would like to thank our Permit Distributors who volunteer their time to fill out the permit applications and help us sell our permits and to all of you who purchased a permit, thank you!
Our Annual General Meeting was held on Friday June 6, 2008 at Laker’s Restaurant on Bethune Dr. in Gravenhurst starting at 7pm in their private room. Snowcrest Riders Snowmobile Club would like to welcome two new members to our Board of Directors: Wayne Winterbottom and Kevin Mertens, we would also like to thank two Board Members that will not be returning, Carl Hallett and Mark Newell.
We put a new spin on our Annual Pancake Breakfast in January, this year we added a Family Fun Day with outdoor activities and had a visit from the Muskoka Wildlife Centre. This season we will again be having our Pancake Breakfast on January 30, 2009, continue to watch our web site for more details.
Our 3rd Annual Easter Seals Snow-A-Rama will be on February 21, 2009, pledge forms will be available on line as the date gets closer. Watch the web site for details.
The 2008 season started earlier than in the last couple of years and Mother Nature gave us some unrivalled weather conditions. We never did get frost into the ground and when things were looking promising and we were almost ready to stake lakes and open more trails, in came the mild weather and rain. We had flowing water on trails that have never had any water problems before, ever! Finally, after much dedicated hard work from our volunteers and cooler temperatures, we got them open and the lakes staked. However, every second Tuesday, we had spring again. If nothing else, it was an adventurous season!! We ended with about 15-22 inches of ice on most of the lakes. On March 31 there was nothing left on the roads, some of the trails had bare patches and some of the swamps were starting to open up, for everyone’s safety we reluctantly had to close our trails for the season. For our volunteers and groomer operators it was an extremely long season and not without some extremely complex conditions. We would like to thank them all, for their hard-work and dedication.
