Whitecourt Trailblazers.ca

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.

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

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

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)

Thank you to all the Sponsors and people that came out and made our Sled Invasion a huge Success!!!

The winners from the Sled Invasion Poker rally are as follows:                                                                                                                                         

  Winner of the 2009 Arctic Cat Crossfire 800Snowpro Supplied by Arctic Cat:

TJ Benoit of Edmonton Alberta.  

                Saturday Feb. 14, 2009