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| Joining the Club |
| Dues are $35 a year per family or $25 for a single membership. The membership year runs from July 1st to June 30th of the following year; it runs concurrently with the New Hampshire Snowmobile Registration year. Membership dues will need to be paid and you need to receive your membership card prior to registering your snowmobile. Meeting are held on the second Monday of every month, (excluding holidays), at 7:00 PM. |
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| To join, please print out the Membership Form and mail in with your payment. |
| The benefits of club membership are: |
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| Use of the club's groomed trail system. |
| The club actively working to protect your snowmobiling rights. |
| You get all these benefits and more for your family or single membership. |
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| Why Should I Belong to a Snowmobile Club? |
| What Can a Club Do For Me? |
| Before a trail is even started, someone has to lay out where you want it to go. They then go to each landowner and get permission to cross his or her property. The landowners also donate the use of their property. So keep this in mind when you are on the trails. Please respect the land you are on. Stay on the trails! Once we have the agreements from all the landowners, we then have to make sure the groomer can get through without breaking anything on the drag or groomer itself. This means we sometimes have to remove rocks, stumps, or small trees, if we get the landowner's permission. We then go through and put up stakes and mark the trails with signs, so everyone knows where they are at. |
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| What does it cost to put in and maintain a trail system? For each mile of trail it takes approximately 18 blazers at $2.00 each, 18 2x2's at $.75 each, 4 stop signs at $4.00 each, and 8 information signs at $5.00 each. A total of over $105 per mile. |
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| When the trail is all in and the snow comes, the trail has to be groomed. A good groomer can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $70,000 thousand dollars. Then you need a drag, they cost $3,000-$6,000 thousand dollars. What about fuel to run the groomer? When it breaks down, who fixes it? Who drives it? Donated time again by a club member. |
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| In the spring when everyone has put their machines away for the summer and are getting their boats ready for the lakes, the club members are back out taking down the signs and stakes, and cleaning up any litter left from winter activities. They take them apart and store them away to wait for next fall. |
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| We also check for any damage done over the winter. If we find anything wrong, we go to the landowner and make arrangements to fix the problem, and we sincerely hope they will let us use the trail again next year. |
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