Category Archives: Grooming

Club expects to spend $3000 on groomer this season

All, Club news, Grooming December 26, 2010 Leave a comment

The groomer used on the northern loop of the Rural Cass Snowmobile club trail is owned and maintained by the club members. This groomer is a 1989 Tucker Sno-Cat Model 2000 and the club expects to spend about $3000 on the groomer this winter.

Besides just general service work such as oil changes, the club spent $800 at Catco getting the axle seals fixed, ordered two new sprockets for about $1000, and another $750 for three new cleats. Most of the labor was completed by club members.

It seems  like a good time to thank you for your membership to the club, since without those funds, the club couldn’t afford to maintain this groomer. If you ride the local trails, but haven’t yet joined, here’s a link to the membership application.

Grooming begins this week!

Grooming, Trails December 22, 2010 Leave a comment

Grooming on the Rural Cass snowmobile trail began today (Dec 22) when Keith Blixt of Gardner headed out in the groomer this morning to start on the northern loop of the trail. Since it takes quite a bit longer the firt time out, he expects to only groom half of the north loop today. Here’s a picture of him in action this morning:

The remainder of the north loop should be groomed Thursday, if all goes as planned. And the south loop will be groomed either Thursday evening or Friday morning, depending upon groomer operator availability.  If you are out riding today or tomorrow on the south loop, there are still some deeper ditches that could be packed more with snowmobiles to help the groomer avoid getting stuck.

More than 375 volunteer hours already logged this winter

Club news, Grooming, SND info, Trails December 22, 2010 Leave a comment

You probably realize the Rural Cass Snowmobile Club depends on volunteer hours, but do you know how many hours it really takes? Since August 2010, club members have logged more than 375 volunteer hours already. 

The majority of the volunteer hours so far have been attributed to the process of signing the more than 100 miles of snowmobile trails managed by the club.  A total of 187 hours went into pounding those trail signs in the ground.

Other volunteer activities this year have been included marketing and event planning, including all the hours attributed with putting on a successful SnowJam event and the time it takes to manage the club website, membership drive and member emails.  Groomer maintenance, managed by a small group of volunteers, is also a big component of volunteer time during the fall.

A huge thank you goes out to all the club members who do their part to contribute to the club’s success.

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