Mulleyville Snowmobile Club

Get you 100 Club tickets for $50. Our first drawing scheduled for 2/14/12 and your first of five chances to win $500. We are well short of our 100 ticket goal so plase get one today. This is our primary fundraising effort for the year.

Visit http://mulleyvilletrailsystem.com/100-club for more information and to pay with paypal. Other ways to get a ticket are to contat Joe Albanese at (518) 588-0459 or joseph.albanese@ge.com

Trails are still closed. Hopefully we get some snow this weekend but we still need at least 6″ before we can even think about opening the trails.

Remember the Bonfire at lake desolation this Saturday regardless of snow conditions. 3-10pm.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend our Lake Desolation Bonfire Party on Jan 21^st at Tinney’s Tavern.   Hopefully we’ll have enough snow by then, but if not, plan on driving up to have fun.   Tinney’s will be open for lunch and dinner plus they’ve hired an excellent band for our entertainment.   Print the attached flyer and post it on your calendar as a reminder.   We’ll also be holding our popular 50-50 Drawing.    This will be a great way to kick off our slow start to winter.    Think snow & we hope to see you there!

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http://poststar.com/news/local/snowmobilers-plans-for-trail-network-go-off-track-for-this/article_90a429d6-370b-11e1-81dd-001871e3ce6c.html

THURMAN — If snow ever falls, southbound snowmobilers are going to have to trailer their machines to Warren County’s trail network.

The Thurman Connection snowmobile club thought it had found a way around being barred from the county-owned railroad tracks, which will be used throughout the winter by the Saratoga and North Creek Railway.

The Town Board last month relented and voted to allow the club access to about a half-mile of Bowen Hill Road and River Road, after repeatedly panning the request because of safety concerns.

But that no longer matters as club officials announced on Tuesday night that several property owners who’d previously agreed to allow trails on their land have since backed out of the deal.

The change meant the trail system would not be complete unless Thurman permitted the club even more widespread access to its road network.

The Town Board, faced with the decision, rescinded its earlier resolution on Tuesday, essentially creating a gaping hole in the club’s trail network for the 2012 season.

“It’s done for just this year at this point,” Supervisor Evelyn Wood said on Wednesday.

Thurman Connection is one of the three clubs that maintains Warren County’s growing trail network.

Recent years have seen a push to expand snowmobile access in Warren County and link it with high-traffic trail systems from Vermont to the east and Hamilton County to the northwest.

The local network’s link with Speculator-area trails, and the popular ones surrounding Old Forge, is essentially severed without the Thurman trail system.

“People can still come to Thurman, unload and ride to Speculator from here,” said club President Doug Needham “There just won’t be any through traffic.”

Needham said that several local trails will be open, as will trails leading to the north and west.

Club officials are hopeful to find a solution to the loss of Warren County’s tracks before the 2013 season.

Snowmobile traffic drives the winter economy of much of the central Adirondacks.

Several things to make people aware of this year.

1) On C8A right before it hits Lake Desolation has a land owner whose house is right next to the trail. It is IMPERITIVE that people follow the quiet please and 15 mph speed limit signs in this area or we will lose the trail. If that happens we are back to riding Fox Hill Road for 4 miles. Also, as you get to the lake please don’t be drag racing and making a lot of noise at the lake entrance. Save it for the other end and middle of the lake. Remember, this LO’s house is about 50 feet from the trail, and would you like people riding by your bedroom all night?

2) The spruce mt road trail spur is CLOSED this year for logging. We have a by-pass trail scouted and approved for locals who rely on that access road, but it will not be groomed so if you are trailering please use either county route 10 parking or Wells road parking.

3) Huricane Irene wiped out the bridge on the S82 dead end trail. It is about 3/4 of the way down and we will be groming that far and turning around. I don’t recommend trying to ride through the creek as it’s fast and deep. Hopefully the landowner repairs the bridge this summer. If you are interested in the picutres of some of our huricane damage check our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/MulleyvilleSnow

4) The snow train is running this year and there will be Law enforcement on the tracks. we recommend staying off them. the “connections” to lincoln mt and south warren are therefore cut off and we know of no other way to connect, legal or not. If anyone knows of possible trail routes and wants to help knock on doors to get the permissions please pm or email me.

5) Our 100 club is running again this year except we have cut ticket prices to $50 this year to make it more affordable for people to get it. There will be five drawings for $500 and if you win you get put back in for all drawings so it could be possible to win multiple drawings. Visit our website for details or to buy a ticket via paypal. No need to be a club member to enter.

Let all do our snow dances because it looks like we’re going to need them as there’s no meaningful snow in the forcast for as far out as they go.

Thanks
Steve