9147-R2_MSA_September2025_Newsletter

MSA Club News

Keep your fingers crossed that Mother Nature is kind to us this upcoming winter and brings us a full season of riding. Nick Morrill Club President

house. A hunters breakfast is in the discussion stages. If you haven’t renewed your membership, it’s the time to do it now. Linda COBBOSSEECONTEE sc West Gardiner, ME cobbosseeconteesnowmobileclub.com Club was honored to be chosen 2025 Snow mobile Club of the Year! What an accomplish ment for a small club like ours to receive.

fall to better meet all of our storage needs. Trail work of clearing brush, Dixie Bridge was replaced, working on new signage for the trails this winter. Volunteers needed! Always could use extra people to help do trail work during the summer/fall as well. We always welcome new club members, as it is your support that keeps our club running. So join by membership today! We welcome business membership as well. Or officer’s election is held in Oct. Current Officers: President: Brady Snowman, Vice President: Matt Charrier, Treasure: Mark Han sen, Trail Master: Josh Lord, Secretary: Bon nie Jepson COSTAL REGION The Hollis Honkers Snowmobile Club is proud to share some highlights with our fel low riders across Maine. Last season was extra special, as we celebrated our 50 th birth day with a club ride and a good old-fashioned birthday party—complete with cake! It was a great time to look back on our history, recog nize all the hard work that’s gone into main taining our trails, and look ahead to the future with plenty of enthusiasm. HOLLIS HONKERS sc Hollis, ME

MEDUXNEKEAG RAMBLERS sc Meduxnekeag, ME

The 2025/2026 season is rapidly approach ing. Tim Drake, President of the Meduxnekeag Ramblers Snowmobile Club has been working diligently on the Littleton trails throughout the summer. With his constant companion, Ethel the Basset Hound, he has been updating signs and markers to ensure easy navigation of our beautiful area. We look forward to seeing you on the trails this winter and at our Saturday morning breakfasts starting in January. MOLUNKUS VALLEY SNO-DRIFTERS Sherman, ME Greetings from Molunkus Valley Sno Drifters As I sit and write this its hoodie weather yay! Praying for a cold & snowy upcoming season! Memberships have hit the mailboxes and the first few back goes into a drawing for a prize good luck and welcome to the club where there are no strangers only friends you haven’t met! Our 1st potluck and meeting will be Oct 4 th at 5:00 P.M. With the regular meeting at 6:00 P.M. at the clubhouse located 58 North Street in Sherman hope to see you there! Working with new landowners on trails for the upcoming season and getting permission (almost done) hope everyone has enjoyed their summer. Guys and girls have been busy getting things ready for upcoming season we are blessed we have a great team and always grateful for Sherry Arsenault to sell those tickets for the club! That’s about all she wrote for now so keep on keeping on! Enjoy the rest of your summer! Hi Folks, September is upon us and in a few months, we will hopefully be riding the beautiful snow mobile trails of Maine. Moosetown Riders All agash club has been busy with grant writing, groomer garage / club house thoughts as well as planning our fundraiser. We will be having our First Annual MTR October Fest Bash in the Gash on Sat. October 11, 2025. This day will consist of a delicious meal with BBQ pork and or chicken with all the fixings. The Boomerang Band will be playing as well as a bonfire and corn hole tournament. We will have various gun raffes which have been donated by Bobby and Cindy Hafford of All agash Wildlife Sporting Camps, Zach Voisine of V&S Arms and Jake Chouinard of Allagash Game Calls. We will also be auctioning many other items. This is the Saturday before the Oct bull moose hunt. Come on up for a delicious meal, try your luck at our lotteries, enjoy the music and meet up with old/ new friends all while supporting our club. CENTRAL REGION MOOSETOWN RIDERS Allagash, ME We met a couple times over the summer to plan for fall work and fund raising. We are currently selling tickets for a gun raffle as well as MSA Super Raffle Tickets. If anyone is interested in either of these, contract a club member. We participated in Madison-Anson Days in August where we sold raffle tickets and memberships. Plans have been made to have a club house work day repairing some window trim and doing some painting. Trail work discussed for the fall includes a trail reroute, repairing two bridges as well as the usual trail brushing. We are offering a park and ride location at our club house at 1463 Lakewood Road, Mad ison. From here you can easily access ITS 87, the Kennebec Rail Trail, plus trails to the North. Donations for parking would be appre ciated; a drop box will be installed at the club ABNAKI SNO-RIDERS Madison, ME

We’re not just members, we are friends as well. We continue to meet year round, off sea son meetings are hosted by a member with other members all pitching in. Unfortunately 2 out of 3 meetings had to be held at the club house due to thunderstorms each time, go fig ure, the only two times it has rained all sum mer and it picked those two days. West Gardiner celebrated its 175 th birthday with a parade and cookout sponsored by the town. Club’s Honda side by side participated in the parade and a booth with membership applications and information on the club was available. Trailwork resumes in September. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a good amount of ride able snow! We had some time off this summer before starting more bridge work on our west side trail. The work is being funded through the Recreational Trails Program (RTP). We are planning to completely rebuild two 25 ft. bridges from the abutments up. This project will complete a four-year effort to replace all the bridges on our east and west side primary trail, a total of eight bridges. For those not familiar with our trail system, we have a basic loop that starts and ends at Long Pond. In the middle of the loop is ITS 87. The loop segment on the east side of Long Pond is named the “east side trail” and the seg ment on the west side of Long Pond is named the “west side trail”. For logistics reasons we have a primary and secondary groomer on the east side and another pair on the west side. For years we have struggled with reliable groomers on the east side and for the past 4-5 years we have been using personal equipment for pulling drags. So we are very excited about picking up a new Polaris Ranger 1000 XP to act as our primary groomer for the east side. This machine will be paired with a new 75” drag that we purchased last year. We will again publish the regional C4 map and those will be available from participating clubs and at the Rome Town Hall. Our meet ings are the second Tuesday of the month Sep tember to April, 7:00 PM at the Rome Town Hall. All are welcome. West Gardiner 175 th Anniversary Parade ROME RUFF RIDERS Rome, ME We are crossing our fingers that our snow dance warrior Cooper works his magic this year for a great winter of lots of snow! Check out our Facebook page Sno-Devils Snowmo bile Club from time to time, as Cooper does some funny videos! We post about our upcoming events such as our Hunters Breakfast, Vintage Snowmobile show and ride, Summerfest and much more. During riding season our kitchen is open for riders to purchase burgers, dogs, fries and much more. Open every weekend during win ter riding season. Our equipment building has got some seri ously needed upgrade work done. The shed project was in 2 parts. Preservation of exist ing was completed last summer. A grant was received to put on an addition this summer and SNO-DEVILS sc Saint Albans, ME

the annual Caribou Cares About Kids parade this year. The theme for the parade was Car ibou on the Move. What better way to show our community on the move in the wintertime then with snowmobiles. With about 2 weeks of planning and build time, we felt it was a great way to highlight our annual Caribou Lake radar run. With the help of a great racing family and club members Phil & Mallory Wil ley along with their dynamic duo of Parker & Vera Willey our club was able to take home 1 st place for best themed float in this years parade. We would also like to thank Priority Tractor & Equipment for the use of a trailer to build our float on and for their continued support of our club. Congrats to the local ladies VFW auxil iary, Guerette Farms and the Caribou Boy’s & Girl’s Varsity Basketball teams on winning as well in the various other catagories. Now with fall just around the corner it’s time for us to turn our attention to trail work that needs to be done before the season begins. Our big fall trail project for the year is rerout ing a section of our Connor trail that connects with the Caswell club. We have about 5,000 ft of trail that needs to be cut through a thick wooded area along with two swamps that need to be opened up to get around a solar project a previous landowner is putting up. We’d like to say thank you to the new landowner that is allowing us to utilize their land in order to build this reroute. The club along with Cari bou Parks & Rec. will be working with a local contractor to get this project complete before the season begins. Planning is getting under way for our Annual Caribou Lake Radar Run that supports our Larry Doody Memorial Scholarship that we give to local students going onto college and studying a hard trade. Lastly like many clubs throughout the state we have MSA Super Raffle tickets for sale. We will be making a post on our social media pages for a way for you all to reach out to us to purchase tickets.

We also faced an unexpected challenge when our longtime snack shack burned down. While it was a tough loss, the outpouring of support from members, neighbors, and local businesses was incredible. Thanks to hard working volunteers and generous donations, the shack was quickly rebuilt better than ever, and we’re excited to welcome riders back to enjoy it again this season. The experience reminded us just how strong and dedicated the snowmobiling community really is.

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