Whitecourt Trailblazers.ca

10/March/10

As of today, the trail system is closed and the staging area gate has been locked for the season.

Please be aware that there is ongoing construction on various parts of the trail. Watch for heavy equipment.

01 Feb 10 

Poor snow conditions and unsafe river ice along with warm temperatures forecast in the near future forced Trailblazers executive to make the difficult decision to cancel this years rally.

The draw for the 2009 Skidoo Anniversary edition 800 Summit will be held at the Whitecourt Seniors circle at 5:00 on Sunday, 14 Feb.

Tickets for the draw are available at RPM powersports, Whitecourt IGA and from Trailblazers members cost $5.00 each.

The annual Rally is planned for February 13 and 14, 2010.  Pre-registration will be Feb.12.  No banquet will be held.  Routes are not confirmed yet.  Many prizes and money to be won!!  Draw for new XP Summit 154 will occur on Feb.14 at 5pm.  Stay tuned for more details.

Whitecourt Trailblazers are sponsoring an avalanche safety course this coming weekend, the itinerary is as follows:

Friday January 8, 2010

1730 – 1830: Course Registration

Bring in Completed Registration and Health Forms

1830 – 2200: Classroom Session

Saturday January 9, 2010

0800 – 1200 – Group 1

1230 – 1630 - Group 2

Sunday January 10, 2010

0800 – 1200 – Group 3

1230 – 1630 - Group 4

Cost will be $90.00-110.00 depending on the number attending. $40.00 for those attending the Friday night session only

Please download the following documents and bring them to the registration on Friday evening.

Information Pkg..pdf (155.19 kb)

avalanche course waiver+indemnity.pdf (84.56 kb)

avy courseRegistrationForm.pdf (68.56 kb)

Health Form WAC.pdf (68.38 kb)

Those planning to attend please email Jeff at the following:  jeffb@albertanewsprint.com

17 Dec 2009 

Trails are not officially open Grooming has not yet begun. Trails are in poor early season condition with up to 1' of snow in some areas. Watch for frozen quad and heavy equipment ruts and please flag and report any hazards. (if you cannot remove them)

 

Trailblazers have been hard at work this past summer and fall getting funding in place (Courtesy of the Federal and Provincial Governments) to ad another 105 Km of groomable trails to our existing system. We are also Working on upgrading certain sections of the existing trail system.

     Progress to date:

Groat Creek Canyon: trail cut and signed from County campground (Now a winter Staging Area)at intersection of hwy 32 and Groat creek Road up to groat creek trail south of cabin. Use caution

Goodwyn Lake loop: off of Groat Creek trail North of cabin brushing is complete no signs have been erected. This has several hazards present and is NOT ready for use as of yet.

South Windfall Trail:  60 Km from Gundy rest area across the Athabasca to the Groat Creek Cabin. Brushing work has commenced trail is NOT ready for use and will have heavy equipment operating on it.

Existing trail system: There are several places on the existing system that have seen work. Use caution in all areas as heavy equipment may have caused ground disturbances that have frozen in place and the groomer has not been out yet.

14 Dec 2009

Trails are not yet officially open. As soon as there is something to report the trail conditions will be updated.

The annual Trailblazers Rally will be held Family Day Weekend Feb 13,14 2010

Draw will be held for a 2009 50th Anniversary edition 800 Summit 154 that the club won from BRP last year.

Tickets are on sale now at Whitecourt IGA and RPM Powersports

More details to follow

 

-         the unit was purchased November 19, 2003 with 9898 hours

-         as of March 27, 2009 the total hours are 10, 859

-         total running hours after purchase are 961

-         2008/2009 total hours are 288

-         the yearly average is 192.2

-         fuel purchase for 2008/2009 is 4,834 litres or 1,064 gallons

-         estimated trail miles groomed for 2008/2009 is 2,317 kms or  1,440 miles

-         estimated trail miles groomed since purchase in 2003 is 7,732 kms or 4,804 miles

-         the unit is presently in summer storage, but still requires seasonal service and minor repairs for the upcoming winter

-     figure another hour of maintenance time for every six to eight hours of run time: add another 36-48 hours

-    there are always 2 men on the machine when operating in the bush: add 288 man hours

We need to send out a huge thank you to the guys that manned the groomer this winter, they made sure that the trails were in awesome shape this whole season.

Alex Manweiler

Leroy Roth

Nick Slootweg

Kelly Gunderson

Lambert Veenstra 

Jim Halliwell (Special event guest operator from BC)

  

Sam Rogers print interview

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