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Provincial trails offer local snowmobilers
a 32,000 -mile network through Ontario
...Snowmobiling
flly Scott HNgendorff
Expositor Editor
With part of the provincial
trail system no more than a
few feet from their home, the
Daltons can't help but join
the more than 124,000
snowmobilers using the
Ontario trails.
Ken and Brenda Dalton, of
the Walton area, have been
around snowmobiles all their
lives with Ken's family
having one since they first
came available in the late
1960s.
"I started on the first ones;
the old eight horse power
ones." said Ken.
Now, their four children
have been raised the same
way.
"As they got old enough,
they started coming along
riding with us and then
driving." said Ken.
"With machines around,
they were just naturally out
there on them."
Only the machines people
start out on are now 85 horse
power and instead of blazing
their own trails in back fields
and bushes, there is now a
32.000 mile system of trails
spread out across the
province.
With handwarmers built
into the handlebars and,
Netter -designed gear, an
afternoon.of touring through
hack fields and lots has
turned into multi -day, trips of
hundreds of miles.
The Daltons have been
completely around
Algonquin Park, toured
through the Huntsville area
and North Bay.
Algonquin Park was a 600
mile trip that took them four
days to complete.
"There's lots of. days you
can do 200 miles in a day. It's
not too hard if the trails are
good." said Ken.
When they were younger,
before the trail system was in
place. Ken said a big day
would be covering 20 to 25
miles.
"You had to break your
own trails," he said.
The Hullet Swamp and
some areas in Blyth were
popular spots in the 70s. •
"There's trails through a lot
of hushes," he said.
And while many of the old
trails still exist, the system
has expanded and grown,
particularly in the past 10
years. said Ron Williamson
of the Pine Ridge
Snowmobile Club.
While the Daltons trailer
their snowmohiles into the
north country and start out at
points on the trail system
there, the system is linked
and designed so they could
hook up with it where it runs
on the other side of their barn
and follow it to Huntsville or
Algonquin Park.
Helping make it all
possible are the 281
snowmobile clubs that make
up the Ontario Federation of
Snowmobile Clubs which has
developed and maintained the
trail system through those
local clubs.
Williamson said each club
Scott Hilgendorff photo:
Ken and Brenda Dalton, of the Walton area, have taken snowmobile trips through Algonquin
Park, Huntsville and North Bay.
is responsible for maintaining
a segment of the trail system.
The clubs' duties include:
making arrangements with
property owners, largely,
farmers, whose property line
a trail needs to follow;
posting signage from speed
limits and stop signs to
directional signs and route
locations through towns and
the services found within for
food, gas and shelter;
grooming the trails with
equipment that helps keep
them smooth and solid. Last
year, the Pine Ridge
Snowmobile Club. one of
several that links to the
Seaforth area trail system,
sold more than 800 permits
for the trail system.
Permits are needed to he
on the trails and a large
percentage of the proceeds (a
permit costs between $120
and $150 depending on how
early in the season it is
purchased) stay within the
local club for its upkeep of
the trail in its area.
While permit sales may
have been down locally for
the past couple of years
interest in the winter pastime
continues to grow with the
OFSC reporting a record year
during last season.
Williamson said the poor
winters in this region is the
reason for fewer trail permits
being sold by the Pine Ridge
club but regardless, he said.
"There's a lot of machines
out there."
And with thousands of
snowmobiles travelling the
intricate trail system, there is
also the presence of trail
wardens and OPP.
Almost 2,500 volunteers
are trained as wardens and
patrol the trails ensuring
drivers are operating safely,
staying on the trails and not
trespassing on surrounding.
properties, making sure
snowmobilers have trail
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Locally, the Huron OPP
operate a couple
snowmohiles used to patrol
the trails the same as
roadways. checking for
everything from speeders to
impaired drivers.
"You feel kind of secure on
the trails." said Brenda.
Her children have come
with them on different trips
into the north and now, two
of their sons. Geoffry and.
Darrell, have been on trips of
their own.
"Our youngest son. Scott,
he just turned 12 so he's out
there with us now." said
Ken. Daughter Alicia is also
a regular on -the trails with
them. Twelve is
the minimum age to he
licenced to operate a
snowmobile.
Brenda said the scenery
can be incredible on the trips.
describing how a trail can
take them out of beautiful,
snowcovered woods' onto a
ridge that looks over a valley
and hack into different
scenery around a lake and out
again. -
"For -an excursion of a
couple. days, I'd definitely go
-to North Bay," she said of
one of their favourite trips.
In this area. the past few
years have seen short seasons
with poor winters hut when
the weather is good Brenda
said for a day of
snowmohiling around this
area. the trails in the
Seaforth. Goderich and Blyth
areas are a lot of fun.
"There's some nice trails
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children will look at the
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Out of the ordinary this
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"There's always sorriehody
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adding there are about 20
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snowmobile with on different
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"We do have winter. You
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said of their passion for
braving the cold and heading
out on their snowmobiles.
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