8924-R1_MSA_December2024_Newsletter

MSA Club News

for a fun work day with friends, see Les. SLED WORK: Les needs you. He has to get all equipment & buildings ready for the winter. Jeremy has done some work on sleds and building electric work. He has also added two new LED lights to the clubhouse. So far, no fires. Towing receiver work is planned. Jeremy is always laughing while working, so please join his fun. GROOMER TRAINING: Think about this. Les will train one member at a time, on our well-equipped, professional groomer, the Snow Rabbit. That way once trained, a 2-per son trained groomer team with all their food and supplies, could take the groomer out to do important trail grooming work, approved by Les, for as long as planned. If you are inter ested enough to start training, please talk to Les. Thank you everyone for taking the time to read about our snowmobile club and our special little town. Please ride our trails and make our town your town and stop on your snowmobile adventure. I guarantee you will be back. mikeremillard@mgemaine.com Please take the time to cut out the below lines of information and pack it away with your registration and insurance info. You never know. RESCUE HELOCOPTER LANDING SPOT: Located at the second Elsemore Land ing sign, near Pocumcus Lake. GPS: N 45° 10.14’, W 67° 53.79’. HELP NEEDED: Call 796-5027, Les, Brinda, or a store worker. TRAIL PROBLEM: Call 796-5027, Les. He will solve the problem. PINE TREE STORE: Hours 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 796-5027. NON-Ethanol Gas. Always remember, for food, drink, supplies and fun, “You can’t go wrong at The Pine Tree Store”. LODGING: Call 796-5027, Les, Brinda, or a store worker. MONTHLY MEETING: Every 2nd Wednesday @ 6:00, usually at the GLS Fire Station. Mike Remillard Hi to all, Quadcounty SC has been busy getting trails ready for the sled season. The three 50-foot bridges have been replanked, brushing and signing has been getting done with more that has to be done. We have had more help on trails this year but we can always use more if you are available. Quadcounty SC has had a lot of machine work done on trails this fall, Maclaughlin Earthmovers, JKrapf, TWorster Logging have done a great job smoothing out the trails, JHam did miles of bushhogging. Business member HC Haynes helped us with miles of our trails on their land. Thanks to all! Weather permitting we work on the trails every Sunday morning meeting at clubhouse at 8:00. In November, we had three Saturday hunt ers breakfast, the first we donated all money to the church next door to help them with heating bills, we raised $1136 and served 106 people. The next 2 breakfasts we served 79 and 84, thanks to kitchen crew and all that came. Thanksgiving Day, Quadcounty SC served a free Thanksgiving dinner. We have been doing this for 11 years. It is free but you can give a donation. We served 125 people last year. Eat in or take out. We offer turkey, stuffing, mashed potato, gravy, green beans, corn, cran berry, roll, pie, coffee, peach tea and lemon ade. Hope to see you at the clubhouse on Rt. 6 in downtown Springfield. We are doing a kids bicycle raffle to give away December 21, at Breakfast with Santa. Quadcounty SC will be doing a Calendar Raf fle for February, March and April. They make a great stocking stuffer for Christmas. We are in the process of setting up Facebook pay and Venmo account so you join our club or buy raffle tickets, bringing the club up to the 21 century. Your slow typing reporter, Kevin QUAD COUNTY sc Springfield, ME

could say it’s my Christmas wish! The West Pond Pioneers are doing their part! Our plan is to get our favorite excavator guy, Jeff Cham bers from TRAMM Construction, up there once the “big project” he is on is done. That just leaves us one bridge to rebuild. Hoping to find three 18’ skidder mats to fill that void! Christmas Wish! On that note, I want to thank the Milo Devil Sledders for their very gener ous donation of $1075 for the Gauntlet Bridge deck replacement material.Again, truly a great community! I have to say, God puts the peo ple in your life when it is best and God has truly answered many prayers for the Ebeemee Snowmobile Club! Memberships are coming in at a steady pace. Thank you all for your continued support. It is such an incredible experience to see the sup port and outreach. We have one supporter, I’ll call him Brad, who donated a folding table last year. This year he donated a rolling kitchen island and flooring. But the best part is, he took the time to hand paint and customize that island. Wait until you see it! When you look at it you can tell he loves Ebeemee Snowmo bile Club! Thank you again Brad! We also had a big stack of backer boards donated by Jeff Van Knowe, thank you Jeff! One other per son left an adorable “donation” bucket on the front porch. I don’t know who it was but thank you! Get those super fun and very effective Adopt-A-Trail orders in if you are considering getting a set. I have to say, whenever I drive by our “Camp Tukumbaktu” sign it makes me smile Karlyn Jackson has taken over the reins on our Shopify store. That is now up and running and we thank you so much Karlyn for stepping up! We don’t currently have any new merch but who knows! We have been pondering add ing insulated drink cups to our store. Keep an eye out! Remember, you can join, donate and buy a set of Adopt-A-Trail signs right through our store. We also have a good supply of LJE’s Blizzard Buster Helmet Light donated by Lenn Johnson. They are do a great job illumi nating for those coming from behind. Check them out! Come find us on our webpage www. ebeemeesnowmobileclub.org and, by the way, Great job Dan Sullivan for not only getting our new webpage up and running in a pinch last year but managing it again for us this year! Many hands make light work! I hope you all caught the write-up in the September MSA paper by Jason Johnson. I remember that day well and I remember sit ting and talking with him for quite a while. It was ESC’s first venture into a Poker Run stop. I personally believe he caught the essence of what Ebeemee Snowmobile Club is all about. Great trails, great people and great camara derie. If you are reading this and haven’t yet visited Ebeemee, you might want to consider putting it on your winter Saturday itinerary. Remember, our Snack Shack is accessible by car as well. 11-3. Every Saturday during the winter months. Google us and the B-Me Snack Shack will come up! And let’s not forget the awesome Ebeemee Snowmobile Club Park N’ Ride made possible by one of our awesome landowners Wagner! You won’t regret it! I am so very proud of Ebeemee Snowmobile Club as you can tell. We are a community effort and I love it! One more change this year, Kristin Vilasuso has (thanks so much!) agreed to take over the reins on our Facebook page. She is doing a fantastic job and I am so thankful she is part of the team! Fresh eyes, fresh ideas! Thank you again Kristin and welcome to the neigh borhood! (FYI, Kristins mom was the one that made those amazing homemade meatball subs at the Snack Shack last year!) I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Before you know it, you will be putting your gear on, gassing up those sleds and heading out on to the trails. Stop by and introduce yourself. Remember, It’s not about the mileage, It’s all about the Smileage! Laurie Plourde, President

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trails. The crew can always use more help so if you can lend a hand, it will be appreciated. The groomers are being tuned up in antici pation of groom-able snow. The weather has been fluctuating between summer like conditions to low 20s. There have been flurries but no measurable snow. Still too early. If you would like to attend our meetings, they are always the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm downstairs in the Denmark Municipal Building. Don’t forget to join the club. Membership forms are on the website.

Above is a photo of the trail connecting Grand Lake Lodge dirt road to Tower Road, also dirt. The trail was blocked by possibly 20 big pine trees that were blown down during the big December 8th 2024 wind and rain storm. Trail Master Les talked to me about possibly rerouting this trail and have snowmo bilers travel up Jerry’s garage access dirt road and then onto the Tower Road. One morning I went to work at the garage and heard chain saws, 3 men and an excavator attacking the job of opening the existing trail. Les got Fred, from the Fred & Jane Team, and his excavator, and also Jeremy, from the Jeremy Team, who always helps, and they attacked and finished the job. The photo can’t show the amount and size of wood that had to be cleared. My opinion, very professional job. The club has placed two Work Hours Note books at the Pine Tree Store. One is for State Trail System work and the other for our Club Trail System work. Each is well organized with sections. Take a look and please use. Les wants us to realize, Example: If your sent out to clear/chain saw downed trees from a trail and the round trip job took 6 hours. Please do not record in the work notebook, 6 hours chain saw. Estimate actual chain saw cutting hours and record that. Record remain ing hours accordingly. Basically, every year there is talk of a snow mobile trail from Big Lake Landing to the Pine Tree Store, which then leads to every where. Due to everything that is between the two locations, that is why it is near impossible to do. Near impossible… The Karen Sprague Bridge has some rot ten wood. Les has made a parts list that will be enough to get the bridge repaired for this season. A big examination of the bridge deter mined it needs to be reworked next summer. So, planning is in the works. Please talk to Les and become part of the plan. The tree holding the President’s Trail sign has fallen down. Les is looking for a minimum two-man crew that will go out there and hang the sign back up, per plan. The club is all out of existing trail maps. Jeremy is going to take an electronic trail map file, copy it, and GPS it with important infor mation and locations. Its release plan is the winter of 2025-2026. So, 100 existing maps have been ordered and will cost $5 at the Pine Tree Store. You all hopefully know, that there is a heli copter emergency rescue pad near Elsemore Landing (see GPS info below). I got to get my story straight, but it is possible Les wants to locate and build two more rescue pads. If this is true, and you are interested in helping, please see Les. RAFFLE: The club has raffled off the same type great items for the last few years. This year’s plan is to change it up a little. Stay tuned to see what the club comes up with. Please tell Les about any idea you might have. Tickets will be at the Pine Tree Store when all is confirmed. SIGNAGE : This is a big topic with snow mobile state officials. Correct signage will give you information, direction, make you safer and more. We hear our signage is good. How ever, Les says we can be even better by adding new signs, repair damaged signs, improve dis play (brushing), add STOP signs, and install any type signage that will make snowmobile travel easier and safer. So, if you’re looking

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Holy Moly! We have all been very busy! Well, not as busy as Santa’s Elves but very busy! Our West Pond Pioneers, I’ll call them, Mike Carey, Kristen and Brent Vilasuso and Jimmy Downes have been relentless brush ing out the Ebeemee Mountain Trail. It is an incredible transformation to say the least. Pete and I went back into Bill’s Right Way (crossover trail) and did the partial redeck and new ramps on the second smaller bridge. I’m very proud of myself. I hauled and unloaded all the lumber all by myself! I just kept tell ing myself, just like the “Little Engine that Could”… I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

A big Ebeemee Shout out to Nolan Han son from Remax Collaborative from Lincoln. Nolan has donated two full days of work with a forest brusher head! He and John Troyan are making massive trail improvements on the Gauntlett access trail. Once that is done, the plan is to send him down to the Lone Pine trail and brush the 59 side of that out for us. I am working on the “Continuous Improvement” theory and my goal is to have that trail from the 59 road, clear over Ebeemee Mountain and across US route 11 accessible for Saga mores Dream to groom out! I have planted the seed in Pete’s head (Say Hi Pete!). I guess you Nolan Hanson of Remax Collaborative Lincoln Me donating his time and the use of a forester brushing head.

Brian Trask, Trailmaster of Milo Devil Sledders pre senting Pete Plourde, Trailmaster of ESC a check for $1075 for replacement decking on the Gauntlett Bridge

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