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snowmobile miles on great trails throughout our state. To all my snowmobile friends throughout New Hampshire and those in Maine and Massachusetts Ride Often and Ride Safe. Dick Wolfe – Thornton, New Hampshire…
HILLSBORO COUNTY DIRECTOR
Bill Bolton
42 Norris Road Weare NH 03281 603-529-0616 bill.bolton@myGSC.com
Hollis Nor’Easters PO Box 517 Hollis, NH 03049 www.noreasters.org Doug Cleveland
With a lot of snow in February the riding and trails have been great and our grooming crew has done a super job of keeping the trails nice and smooth. Our major event of the season, the Pink Ride was a big success again this year with more than $12,000 raised for the St. Joseph Hospital Breast Care Center in Nashua. This ride was organized by Nor’Easters secretary Sue Keough as a cancer charity event in 2012. This year we had 75 sleds lined up at Silver Lake State Park in Hollis on a beautiful day for a 90 minute ride on freshly groomed trails through Hollis and Milford followed by a cookout back at Silver Lake. Thank you Sue for a wonderful event and a fun day for all. The Nor’Easters followed up the Pink Ride a week later by participating in the Lone Pine Hunters Club Winter Carnival in Hollis by providing snowmobile rides. We had a couple big sleighs and several smaller ones pulled by groomers, plus 2-up sleds. They traveled through the Lone Pine property and Hollis Conservation land trails on a scenic ride through the woods and along the Nashua River. This has become a popular annual event attended by many families and children, and snowmobiling has been an important part of the day. Membership in the Nor’Easters Snowmobile Club has increased significantly over the past couple of years to more than 700 members this year. At our
monthly club meeting in March we elected all our officers and three board of directors members for the next season. By the time you read this, our riding season here in the southern part of the state will be about over. A big thank you to all the officers and directors and volunteers who put in so much time for the good of the club at monthly meetings, Old Home Day, pre-season BBQ, snowmobile safety course, the Pink Ride, grooming our beautiful trails, the winter carnival and a couple of group rides which were the highlight of the riding season for us. We would also like to thank all the landowners who allow us to use the trails across their property, and our local sponsors and business partners at RJ’s Motorsports in Nashua, the Hollis Pharmacy, and Souhegan Valley Motorsports in Milford. Any high school senior whose family has a connection to the Nor’Easters can apply for our annual $1,000 scholarship. Applications for this year’s high school scholarship will be accepted until Saturday, May 3 and can be downloaded from the Nor’Easters web site at www.noreasters.org. We hope you all have had a nice winter riding season. Hudson SnoMen 41 Chase Road Londonderry, NH 03053 Michelle Rodrigue, Secretary
Dear friends, I hope that you all have enjoyed the snow this year know we did. We had a club trip to Canada. Six of us left Stewartstown and went to Thetford-Mines it was a great week-end with good friends. We are still holding our meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Please check our web-site at www.hudsonsnomen.org. We will see you at the NHSA Annual meeting. Merrimack Sno-Buds PO Box 833 Merrimack, NH 03054 http://snobuds.com Steve McCarthy
Six Sno-Buds attended the Easter Seals Ride-In in Gorham on Feb 7,8, and 9th. This year the SnoBuds had raised $5,470 making the Sno-Buds the #1 contributing club in the State for the 15th time. In fact, the Merrimack Sno-Buds have raised over $311,000 since 1976! This would never have been possible without the help of many, many people but especially Newt Coryell. Below is the total list 2014 $5,470
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2013 $6,769 2012 $7,498 2011 $7,220 2010 $9,173 2009 $11,465 2008 $14,325 2007 $16,371 2006 $16,476 2005 $23,266 2004 $25,800 2003 $24,191 2002 $23,356 2001 $26,687 2000 $25,587 1999 $10,550 1998 $10,118 1997 $6,050 1996 $5,105 1991-1995 $10,952 1986-1990 $13,554 1976-1985 $10,439 Total $311,422 That’s it for this month. Think snow, ride safely and best regards, Southern NH Snow Slickers 73 Tower Hill Road Candia N.N. 03034 Jason Jutras
Our new website is coming along well and we hope to add more content soon! Everyone please come and join our forum at www.snowmobile-nh.com. And feel free to post your videos and pictures there too! Our Social events have been wonderful so far this season and the new meeting format seems to be a hit too! We have had several guest speakers and some really good food. A BIG thank you to Susan Weiss and all of her helpers for planning and coordinating all of our events ( especially impressive since she is a vegetarian and still cooked hundreds of pounds of chicken, ham, hot dogs and burgers). We would like to thank all of our groomer operators for a wonderful job this season! Richard Doyon, Al Grant, Rene Roy, Bill Lincoln, Jason Jutras, Paul Kimball, Dianne Kimball, Larry Larsen, Scott Tickler, John Reiss, Mike Lawrence, Dave Labbe, Tim Finnegan, AJ Bachhuber, John Decker, Steve Vanni, Scott Bassett, Jim Lovett, Jim Morin, Adam Knight and of course Bob “Skandic” Smith. We would also like to Thank Scott Malo for this wonderful job in keeping all of our equipment running. Without him we would not have been able to keep are trails in such nice shape! Ray Philibotte is a member that deserves tremendous recognition for not only his wonderful signs that adorn our trails but also for his efforts in the 500 club. Ray personally sold hundreds of tickets himself and raised an insane
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amount of money that will be donated on behalf of our club to 3 very worthy charities. Thank you Ray! Our Board of directors all deserve a HUGE thanks for all that they have done to make this another success-ful season. The Board spends 12 months a year planning and working to make sure that our members have every-thing that they are looking for in a club. We are very lucky to have each and every member of this board… they are all willing to donate a lot of their personal time to ensure that our members have the ultimate snowmobile experi-ence here in southern NH. Enough cannot be said about what these people do for our club and our sport. Now I would like to personally thank everyone that has joined our club, volunteered to help out… but alas I do not have enough space to thank everyone… just know that we appreciate our members and volunteers more than you know! We will continue to do the snow dance and hopefully we can finish the season strong. Until next time stay safe and keep the rubber side down! Uncanoonuc Mountaineers PO Box 486 Goffstown, NH 03045 603-497-4023 www.uncanoonucmountaineers.org Linda Lambert—Secretary
Hey everyone! Winter has officially arrived— and in GRAND style I must say!!! Mother Nature must have finally gotten the message that New England wanted and needed snow. Our persistence in sending Mother Nature our prayers, wishes, and snow dance routines must have done one of two things: she either got tired of listening/watching us so she gave in, or she thought we all did such a great job that we deserved lots of “white gold”. Regardless of her thoughts, WE WON !! Thank you Mother Nature!! Daryl and his team have been working hard to make and keep the Goffstown trails superb. If you’re in our area, be sure to take a ride up to the top of North Mountain to get a beautiful view of Manchester. Since my last article, not only have we gotten lots of snow, but many of our club members have enjoyed our first 3 club trips. Eleven of us had a great time on our first club trip of the season to Maine during reciprocity weekend. Snow was fair to good Continued on page 32
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and not about the author. I’ve not said much about myself in any previous news columns, however, I would like to say a few things here. This club news column will be my farewell article in the SnoTraveler. I have written ours club news each winter season now for the past seven years. I have enjoyed in particular keeping our club members updated on the latest club news, and in general any other snowmobilers in New Hampshire, who may have an interest in snowmobiling in our area for the weekend or for vacation time. I’ve reported on our trails being improved in the fall, the snow conditions for snowmobiling in the winter, and giving credit to some of our hard working members who volunteer so much of their time to make snowmobiling what it is today – and it’s all about volunteers, everywhere – a great bunch. I read many other clubs’ news column in the Sno-Traveler, and I imagine that folks in other areas may read our column to check on conditions in this area. I hope snowmobilers have enjoyed our news as I have enjoyed theirs. I now feel that I’ve written all I can each season and some of my articles seem a bit repetitious at times. In plain words, I guess I’m a bit tired of deadlines and putting words in print. Maybe someone else would like to report the clubs news and views in the next few years. A final word if I may. I have been snowmobiling now for over 40 years and have enjoyed many wonderful experiences over these years of riding in several western states, several Canadian Provinces, Alaska and all four New England snow states. Next winter, Lord Willing, I will reach my 80th birthday, and feel very fortunate to have snowmobiled many thousands of miles in those areas, each of which has their own beauty. My wife and I moved here to beautiful New Hampshire approximately ten years ago and hope to enjoy more snowy years here in the Whites. I’m not leaving snowmobiling, but just slowing down, (as my wife has been after me for several years now!) I hope to be a continuing presence in our club, along with riding locally when the opportunity presents itself. So, with thanks to Gail Hanson, our editor, for allowing me the license to get personal for a bit, I hope that many of you out there have enjoyed these news articles over the years. I bid you a SO-LONG and hope you all enjoy many safe
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