8872-R1_MSA_October2024_Newsletter

Trail Started By Joe Walsh

and once again this little outdoor kitchen out grew it’s self in pop ularity during the snowmobile season. A club BBQ brought hun dreds of people to T-Bone trail in Limerick, lots of families stopped in for a hot chocolate and a steamed hot dog to eat next to the warm fire. This is where I believe the wheels started turning. Summer of 2022 once again the T-Bone trail shack gets big ger, doubling its size and holding its first annual T-Bone trail BBQ cook off competition fundraiser. It was an out of this world display of excellent food and heated competition with a snow mobile feel! Lots of people came out to this event, not even a crumb was left it was what I’d say a sell out! It was a great time listening to the DJ and enjoying the chats of snowmobiling and swatting mosquitoes! That September the T-Bone trail held its first MSA Director meeting, this really gave others an idea what people have been raving about! It was an excellent night of other clubs getting together before the start of the snowmobile season and lots of information and goals were expressed from northern Maine to southern Maine all in one room! That winter again T-Bone trail was the most used trail around bringing in hundreds of sleds from all around New England! It was defi nitely a tourist attraction for sure, it didn’t matter what you rode it was a great place to just hang out and talk snowmobiling and warm up next to the fire! In the 2023 fall season the T-Bone trail held the 2nd annual T-Bone trail BBQ cook-off. Just like years past it grew in to a bigger event, live band, live comedy, great food as always and just the warm environment talking about the

cold days ahead were just as amazing, as Matt always said it’s about bringing families and the community together for the love of snowmobiling! The winter of 2023 we got robbed of our winter and only safely opened our trails for a week so the locals could attend the fish ing derby on the lake, still no matter the weather the T-Bone trail was busy as it’s a place to go and warm up and tell fishing stores for the day! The 2024 season one again starts up with the 3 rd annual T-Bone trail BBQ cook-off with all funds raised going to the MSA schol arship program and again they have knocked it out of the park! With lots of competition, live band, vendors, bounce houses, excellent food and a great community following, this was the place to be! It was mentioned that there was a Bald Eagle soaring around overhead during the cook-off watching over a great time! The snowmobile friends/family/ community really come together and makes this a huge success year after year raising over $2,500 to MSA scholarship The T-Bone trail held its Second MSA director meeting this past Sep tember. I couldn’t recommend a better place, it’s the warm country envi ronment that really pulls it together as a family snowmobile environment! This fall we’re trying to work on a new bridge on the T-Bone trail that got washed out last season, with a dedication to Robert T Libby. I was asked to do a write up about this small trail, but with its big heart and big footprint on our trail system, I kept it as short as I could. It’s been an abso lute honor watching this 1 mile trail go from an idea to reality, literally helping with the first ribbon to breaking ground to grooming to seeing the community get together for the love of snowmobiling and dedicating memories for future generations in memory of Robert “T” Libby on the “T-Bone Trail!

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