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his last month at Michigan Snowmobiler and ORV has just been a blast and I can’t wait for the issue to be distributed. At the beginning of the month, honestly, there was a bit of writer’s block for a couple days. Then it seemed like everyone we talked to had something to say about the Tawas and Sand Lake areas and the ideas started coming together. Tawas and Sand Lake are situated on the Sunrise (or East) side of our great state. Tawas sits directly along the shores of Lake
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port discrepancies or equipment malfunctions through the necessary channels to the DNR and SAW sub-committees. Additionally, the manufacturers presented proper maintenance techniques and Don expanded the breakout sessions to include talks on grooming savvy and how to read and analyze trail conditions during grooming operations. Although not an official roll call, each of the equipment representatives and vendors present were called to the podium, introduced, and given the opportunity to speak about what they had brought to demo and what else they may have available at the shop. First time to this event, Wisconsin based vendor Trackit, a dealer
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passionate about snowmobiling. Mike has completely restored several Polaris sleds and brought them back from wrecks to showroom condition. His vintage collection is pulled around the state by a completely refurbished 1970’s style suburban. Scott and I are also looking forward to the Michigan Snow Show to be held in Novi, MI on November 5th through the 7th. Please stop in and sayeverything hello. We love to hear from the dinner buffet to the w from our readers. Also in stocked cash bar. A once reception c nextcluded, month’s the issue, we will many of the p ticipants headed to be honoring veterans as gaming rooms w ourhopes salute to November of winning at tables or hitting a jack 11th. On Veterans Day, on the slots. and S rememberBoth to thankFriday our urday were split betwe veterans for their service indoor and outdoor ac The first round andities. remember the ones breakout sessio started after breakfa we After miss. As always, we’rethe lunch, bre outs were repeated looking forward to sharing everyone had an opp more great stories with our each o tunity to attend of them. Several att readers. So if you know dees, mostly those current list eligible the the story of any veteran equipment repla thatments, is or was passionwere anxious get outside and che ate out aboutthe snowmobiling various brands tractors and ot please let us know at pubgrooming gear. Among the seve lisher@misnowmag.com . Until next month!
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