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Causeway Bridge Decking Completed - July 30, 2025 Pomerleau Park access to Downtown Newport 2025 Wednesday, February 5, 2025     12:34 PM You can now ride safely into Pomerleau Park in downtown Newport. Park your sleds in Pomerleau Park and walk into downtown Newport to enjoy eateries and more. This is all due to the NCM's involvement with the VOREC Grant to support the city's goal of having a four-season recreation enonomy. In past years, you were unable to access the bridge. This is a tremendous asset for snowmobilers and downtown Newport. And we have snow! Take advantage and enjoy. Click on image to link to a video with Steve reporting on the trail. Bridge Work Fall of 2024 for the 2025 Season October 12, 2024 Today we re-decked a bridge that really needed it. We used recycled guard rail for the deck, which has a life span of 75 years plus so it should be around for a good long time. Thank you to our volunteers that continuously make projects like these possible. Thank you Don Bennett, Bill Holbrook, George St. Onge, Roger Guay, Dillon Chaffee, Doug Runne & Steve Dalpe for a job Very Well Done! Thank you Dave Aho for picking up the materials and getting them delivered to the site. We really appreciate it!   September 28, 2024 Today we rebuilt a bridge that was rotting away and no longer safe. We stripped it down to the poles and replaced the old decking with galvanized guard rail. Then a thin layer of dirt was laid on top. This is great for wildlife and we have actually seen deer tracks all over these types of bridges. We then built the railing out of pressure treated lumber and it came out really great. Thank you to Don Bennett, Dillon Chaffee, Grant Stelter, Lance Wells, Tim Combies, Steve Dalpe, Roger Guay, Marcel Roy, Bill Holbrook & Dave Aho. It takes a team to get these projects completed and our team of volunteers did a great job getting this bridge looking awesome. 2023 Trail Work for the 23/24 Season Thank you Steve Dalpe for the updates! Saturday, November 4, 2023: North Country Mountaineers are out in full force staking trails. We would like to thank all the volunteers and our landowners for making this all possible. Let's hope for a great year with lots and lots of snow. Thursday, November 2, 2023: Volunteer's our trying to make the trails better for the 2023-2024 season. Hope everyone is ready to ride. Thank you to all our volunteers & landowners. Saturday, October 28, 2023: The NCM's have been out in full force getting trails ready for the up coming season. We had some pretty bad wash outs and we have been busy getting them repaired. With the help of several club volunteers (Steve Dalpe, David Aho, Marcel Roy, Bill Holbrook, Roger Piette & George St. Once) we have been able to get a lot of trail work completed. We would like to thank Todd Scelza with Scelza Excabating for the help hauling material into a part of the trail where only a track vehicle could go. We would also like to thank Dan St. Onge for the use of his loader to load the track truck. We would also like to thank our amazing landowners for not only allowing the trails on your property, but for allowing us to maintain our trails, year after year. It's appreciated more than you can ever know!   Bridge Work October 2022 On  Saturday, October 22nd, we rebuilt a bridge on Trail 41F. We used recycled guardrails and the bridge came out very nice. We would like to thank Billy Holbrook, Don Bennett, Marcel Roy, Konnor Dalpe, Brandon Croteau, Steve Dalpe, Dave Aho and George St. Onge for making this happen.

~ Early Bird 2026 TMA's now available online through the VAST website. For more info, click on our Trail Passes tab. Great news ~ Prices have remained the same from last season. Look for 2025-2026 Season meeting announcements here! ~~~ Our next club meeting is scheduled for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025 6:00 PM at the home of George St. Onge 783 Vance Hill Road Newport Center, VT 05857 Food will be provided, BYOB. CLICK ON SNOWMOBILE SAFETY COURSE BELOW TO SIGN UP. Snowmobile Safety Course Saturday, December 8, 2025 North Country Hospital, Newport, VT Miller's Pub at Newport Country Club We have an access trail from our trail crossing at the Interstate 91 access road. Please be respectful and STAY ON THE TRAIL! Laura Bennett has created an album of club photos. She discovered some great vintage photos, which we are placing in an on-line album located on our "about us" page. Click photo below! As labeled on the back of the photo . . . Scene at Albany at noon, 20 below zero. North Country Mountaineers Date: ? Visit the web site for Orleans County! Groomer News from Steve Dalpe - December 2021 Hello Everyone, The North Country Mountaineer’s has done a lot of work to its trails this summer and we are looking forward to the upcoming season. We are pleased to also announce that we have purchased a Brand New Prinoth Husky groomer, which was just delivered to us. We would like to thank everyone that helped us get ready for this upcoming 2021/2022 season and for all the folks that helped us get into this beautiful new Groomer. We cannot wait to get out there and help make some of the best trails in the NEK

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