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New A trail signing work party – Saturday Dec. 5th

On December 3, 2015 / Feature, News and Events, Signage, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

When: Saturday Dec. 5 at 11:00am – 2:00pm
Where: Timmins Road 1 KM off Kinburn Side Road (near Pakenham)

Hello Sledders.

We need some help putting trail signs up on our brand new A trails that was just cut. Amazing new section of trail. Come out and help for 2-3 hours. Meet at Timmins Road just off Kinburn Side Road. We will send one group around to Rock Coady Trail to start at the other end after we meet up. We will have all supplies.

Come and walk the new trail !

Four wheelers and walking in will work great, a little bit of mud at Timmins entrance but great at the other end.

Bring cordless drill with robertson bit. Some water on trail so wear rubber boots.

Thanks 🙂 Scott

Trail signage course announced: Nov 10, 2015

On November 3, 2015 / Club meetings, Feature, Signage, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Sledding is just around the corner. In preparation for the installation of trail signage and markers, the WCSTAI will be holding its annual trail signage course on November 10, 2015, 6:30-7:30 PM in the Conference Room* at the Kinburn Community Centre. Correct signage is the cornerstone of the clubs risk management program and critical to safe sledding on our trails. The trails cannot be opened until this important work is completed.

If you are new to trail signage this season: a) THANKS for volunteering; and b) please plan to attend this course. Note that preparing the trails depends entirely on volunteers like you. If you just want to help out but aren’t sure where to start, feel free to come to the training and we will happily pair you up with an experienced installer.

If you cannot make this training, or have any questions contact the director responsible for risk management at safesledding@wcstai.com

*The conference room is located at the southwest end of the building (closest to the soccer fields). It is NOT the room near the bar nor the large hall.

November Club Meeting – Tuesday Nov. 3rd

On November 2, 2015 / Club meetings, News and Events, Signage, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Please join us at the West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association November club meeting – to be held tomorrow – Tuesday Nov 3rd, 7:30pm, in the board room at the Kinburn Community Centre (doors to the left of the main entrance).

The club is currently looking for volunteer coordinators, people to help with brushing and signage and other volunteer positions. Have any special skills that you might be willing to share to help make our club, our trails and our events even better? Please come and introduce yourself at a meeting, or contact us.

Signage and pre-season trail work will be key topics at this meeting. If you are one of the many people who adopted a section of trail last spring, or if you would like to find out how you can help get our trails ready for the upcoming season we encourage you to join us. We hope to see you there!

WCSTA October Meeting – Tuesday Oct. 20th

On October 3, 2015 / Club meetings, Feature, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Please join us at the West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association October club meeting – to be held on Tuesday October 20th, 7:30pm, in the board room at the Kinburn Community Centre (doors to the left of the main entrance).

WCSTA Partnering with Kinburn Community Association for improved facilities

On September 10, 2015 / Feature, News and Events, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Exciting news! The West Carleton Snowmobile Club has been working with the Kinburn Community Association, and are pleased to announce that for the 2014-2015 season we will be able to expand club activities and amenities through shared use of the Kinburn Community Centre.

Thanks to efforts of club volunteers and members of the Kinburn Community Association we will now have a clubhouse room that is open during certain hours of the week (to be determined). It will have trail maps, washrooms and a place to warm up. A canteen will be open on the weekends and possibly other times depending on the number of people who stop in and extent of usage. Plenty of trailer parking onsite and a gas station one block away make this an excellent launching point for your ride as well.

Our club will be offering a few breakfast outings and dinner parties this year. More events equals more sledding fun, so stay tuned for more information and come and get involved with our great club as we grow again!

Bring on the SNOW!

WCSTA Annual General Meeting – Sept. 15, 2015

On August 27, 2015 / AGM, Club meetings, Feature, News and Events, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Please join us at the West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association Annual General Meeting – to be held on Tuesday September 15th, 7:30pm, at the Kinburn Community Centre.

Board of directors will be nominated and elected by our members at this meeting, and we encourage all current permit holders to join us and participate in setting the course for snowmobiling in West Carleton, and representation of our club within the OFSC for next season.

The club is currently looking for people who would be willing to join as directors, volunteer coordinators and in other volunteer positions. Have any special skills that you might be willing to share to help make our club, our trails and our events even better? Please contact us.

Amendments to club bylaws will also be presented for member approval at this meeting. If you would like a copy of the proposed updates to the Bylaws, please contact Doug Elderkin douglas_elderkin@hotmail.com.

Immediately following the AGM the newly appointed Board will commence with the election of President, Vice President and other Officers for the 2015-2016 season.

We hope to see you there!

RESCHEDULED – WCSTA meeting now May 12th

On May 4, 2015 / Club meetings, Feature, News and Events, OFSC, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

The WCSTA meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday May 5th has been rescheduled to Tuesday May 12. This will be the last regularly scheduled club meeting of the 2014-2015 season. Same time and place – at the W. Erskine Johnston arena in Carp. We will be upstairs in the meeting room off the Amateur Sports Club and bar starting at 7:30. All are welcome!

There will be more club projects to help with over the summer, and we are still looking for candidates to fill positions such as area signage coordinators, volunteer coordination and others. Come and join us, or get in touch if you would like to find out details, or if you have someone in mind that would be good in a particular role.

Please stay tuned for announcement of the date for our Annual General Meeting.

New WCSTA Wayfinding Billboards Start to Go Up

On March 9, 2015 / Feature, Media Release, News and Events, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Since last summer WCSTA board members and volunteers have been working hard to develop a series of nine brand new way finding billboards to be placed in key locations around West Carleton. With the help of Ontario Ministry of Tourism, OFSC and our friends at District 1, we now have all nine of these, ready to be put in place on West Carleton trails. In addition, the District 1 Tourism Development Fund Committee allowed WCSTA and our graphic design partner, Pivot Point Solutions, to spearhead a pilot project with unique, club-branded billboard designs.

These are also designed to accept interchangeable map panels that can be updated when changes to our trail system need to occur. Three different images have been used on the billboards as well to keep them interesting from location to location. You won’t find ones that look like these anywhere else!

We still have a fair bit of work to do, to complete the building of structures and get the billboards into place on the trails, and we are looking for volunteers to spearhead small teams to get them installed, as well as folks with some basic woodworking skills to build the structures. If you are able to help, please contact us at volunteer@wcstai.com.

Special thanks to Mike Asquini, Ted Kelly, Ron Anderchek, John Boals, and Neil Murphy for their hard work and support of this project!

Please Stay on the Trails!

On February 23, 2015 / OFSC, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

We have been receiving complaints from landowners of snowmobiles leaving the trails and traveling into fields and private property. This activity damages fragile crops under the snow cover, endangers family members, children and pets, as well as you and your sled. Trails are marked for a reason, and that is because it is the place where our generous landowners have given us permission to ride.

Leaving the trail to explore, go boondocking or shorten a corner is trespassing and will cause our permission to be revoked. Quite often a suitable reroute will not be available, resulting in trails closed altogether, or at best, more road running. Finally, every time the Club receives a complaint, it uses up valuable volunteer time as we work with landowners to try to make amends, increase signage and repair damage.

Please stay on the trails, and if you see other riders off trail help us to share this message!

Thank you.

Trail opening – please read

On December 18, 2014 / Feature, Trail Conditions, Volunteers, West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association

Trails are not open yet! Please note the last paragraph

Attached is the current state of our trails, the green are the trails that have been picketed and are signed and ready for inspection.

The major push are the trails is the area south of the 417, Thursday we hope to complete the W 10 and W 9, and Friday the W 12 either side of Pakenham (from W 10 to W 9 intersection)

The big effort required this Saturday is the new re-route for the W 12 from Blakeney towards the A Trail (coming into Almonte), a small group attacked it last weekend, but there is still aprox 1 km left of a trail that has not we used or brushed in aprox 10 years. Please show up this Saturday at 9 AM, park on the side of the road around 314 Ridge Road off the top of Panmure, and then follow the trail makers in to the work party. The work requires pruners, chain saws, work gloves, we will provide a brush saw and pole saw. Due to the distance involved best to bring your sled or ATV

We need to get all trails signed and inspected before we can start the grooming and using the trails (and of course we still need some more snow). The few of us that are doing the bulk of the work are exhausted from a 3 month effort, and we know it’s the busy Christmas season, but these are the simple facts of what is required to open trails. Please lend a hand.

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When: Saturday Dec. 5 at 11:00am – 2:00pm Where: Timmins Road 1 KM off Kinburn Side Road (near Pakenham)

When: Saturday Dec. 5 at 11:00am – 2:00pm
Where: Timmins Road 1 KM off Kinburn Side Road (near Pakenham)