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1 P.O. Box 341, Mt. Shasta, CA Snow Phone: (530) Home Page: March 05, 2001 CLUB OFFICERS: President: Eileen K. Maier, Vice President: Dick Cowardin, Secretary: Ginger Berryhil, Treasurer: Daphne E. Pont, Board Members: Ken Anderson, Russ Elgin, Dion Meadows, David Patrick, Daren Valdez Newletter: Contents... Meeting Minutes Pages 1-3 Stats-Classifieds Page 3 Avalanche Info. Page 4 Member list 5-7 Schedules Pages Page 8 Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers Mission Statement A nonprofit organization of dedicated snowmobilers working together to promote the safety and pleasure of snowmobiling for everyone s greater enjoyment of the sport. We work to retain for your multiple-use and enjoyment your National Forests and other public lands. We provide you with a vital link to others whom enjoy your sport. REGULAR MEETING ON 02/09/2001 CALL TO ORDER: Meeting called to order by Eileen Maier at 7:25pm at China Dragon in Yreka. Twelve attending. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Minutes approved as mailed from 11/10/ 00 meeting. There was not a December meeting. There are no notes from the January meeting, only 7 members attended the January meeting, so elections and all decisions were held over for the February meeting. The agenda for this meeting (2/9) was added to the January meeting to make sure everything was covered. TREASURERS REPORT (Daphne): Balance as of last meeting, 11/10/00 of $ Checks Written: $60 to the Mt. Shasta Visitor s Bureau, $125 to the Siskiyou County Visitor s Bureau, $100 for Blue Ribbon membership, $34.58 Snow Phone, $33.63 newsletter copies, and $66 P.O. Box. Deposits: $250 membership renewals & $30 new members. Balance as of 02/09 is $ ELECTIONS: All Club elective positions are up for grabs this year. At this time no one has stated any interest in any of the open positions. Eileen would like to get someone to take over the President position, but if no one is interested or willing to take over the position, she will somewhat be happy to keep the position, but wants everyone to know that she has not had the time to put into the Club that she would like. We haven t had a newsletter since early December, and things are just not getting handled as they really should be, but they are being handled. If you are happy with the job Eileen is doing, great, if you are not, please help out! Rollie said that Dick Cowardin would take over the President job if Eileen would help him. Well, Eileen felt that if she s going to have to do the work anyway, she might as well hold the position. There were no takers for any of the positions, so members attending the meeting voted to keep all officers as they were the previous year: Pres, Eileen Maier; V. Pres, Dick Cowardin; Tres, Daphne Pont; Sec, Ginger Berryhill; Board Members, Ken Anderson, Russ Elgin, Dion Meadows, David Patrick, and Daren Valdez. STANDING COMMITTEES: Nordic Bypass: Saturday, March 10, Club Ride through the Nordic Center. Meeting places to be announced between riders, Pilgrim Creek, Old McCloud Road out of Mt. Shasta, or Deer Mt. Should plan on meeting at the Nordic Center around noon, will have lunch there (bring your own lunch). Warming Huts/Sheds/Snoparks: 1) Deer Mt./Chuck Best Park: Nothing. 2) 4 Corners/Medicine Lake: Nothing. 3) Door Knob: Nothing. 4) Pilgrim Creek: Nothing. USFS: 1) Klamath National Forest: Nothing new. 2) Shasta/Trinity Forest: Nothing new. Groomer Reports: 1) Klamath report: Jeff s been out grooming the Medicine Lake area. 2) Shasta/Trinity report: The groomer has been having a few problems, but they have been covered by warranty. The groomer has been making its runs back and forth between Pilgrim Creek and Deer Mt. OHMVR Grants: Nothing new. Page 1

2 March 05, 2001 REGULAR MEETING MINUTES from 02/09/01 CNSA: Eileen has the minutes from the CNSA DEC and JAN meeting if anyone wants to see them. Don t forget about the General Fund raffle tickets. They are $20.00 each, they printed only 1000 tickets and the prize is a $1600 vacation package of your choice. We ve only sold 7 tickets so far, so if you are interested, please contact Eileen. Dave Holleman had bypass surgery before Christmas, he said he will not be able to be our CNSA rep for some time now, if there is anyone interested in the position, please contact Eileen. Safety (Al Burnham): The CNSA safety course was canceled for January 29th. We were going to try and reschedule it, but due to the snow conditions, it is best to just not worry about it this season. Public Relations: We still have to schedule the 4H Kid s Ride. Medicine Lake Projects: Nothing new. Mercy Air Ambulance (Barbara McPherson): Please call Barbara if you are interested and she will answer any of your questions, 530/ Adopt-A-Highway (Eileen): Mr. Dick Holcomb and Mr. Bill Willison have volunteered to take over this program, thank you guys. The next clean-up is scheduled for May. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Memorial Plaque for Chuck Best: Eileen has not had the time to check on anything as of yet. Kris and Eileen will take care of it, if anyone would like to help, please let Eileen know. Yellowstone National Park: It looks like the closure of Yellowstone has been put on hold for now. President Bush will be forming a committee to look into the situation. We still need to stay on top of the issue. Wilderness: We just need to remind everyone to stay out of the Wilderness. Remember they will be watching very closely this season, and there will be fly overs. CORRESPONDENCE: IN: 1. Blue Ribbon Mag, OSSA, KARE, Rough, Klamath Basin, Sno-Riders, and Siskiyou County Sportsmen Ass. Newsletters. 2. Thank you letter and certificate from the South Sis-Q 4-H Club. They also let us know they have 19 kids signed up for this years ride. We have not set a date as yet. 3. Tread & Track Motorsports in Klamath Falls, OR. They are a local Ski-Doo and Yamaha Snowmobiler dealer. 541/ , 3500 Eberlein Avenue. 4. Snowmobile Jamboree on February 16, 17, & 18th, contact Lake County Chamber of Commerce for info, 541/ Lake Almanor Snowmobile Club s 7th Annual Poker Run is February 17th. Call 530/ for info. 6. Chiloquin Ridge Riders Snowmobile Charity Fund Raiser Playday, February 11th, at Annie Creek Snow Park. OUT: None. NEW BUSINESS: New Memberships: Paul & Sharon Matti of Central Point, Mike & Lisa Robustellini of Yreka. Renewed Memberships: Darby Hayes, Vern, Marilyn & Devin Santos, Greg Skeahan & Ginger Berryhill, Griffin & Patricia Green, Tres Hobbie, Terry Mc- Donough and Paul & Julie Weisman. Dealer Giveaway Memberships: From Rollie at A&R Power Sports = Jessie & Joni Joe Castillo of McCloud. Avalanches: In case there is anyone out there that hasn t heard yet, on January 27th, one of our own Club members was buried in an avalanche in the Ash Butte Creator. The victim wishes that we not use names, so Dee Willison has agreed to stand in. While hill climbing in the Creator, Dee was fairly high up the hill when the slab broke off and started coming at her. Dee did not have time to turn out, so Dee tried to ride up and over the snow coming at her. Dee s sled was tossed sideways and then started to roll down with the snow, Dee tagging along behind. Dee should have gotten away from her sled and tried to swim to the side of the avalanche to help stay on top of the snow. Dee held onto her sled as long as she could and was carried around 50 yards down the hill. Dee s sled acted like an anchor holding her down in the snow. Dee was not wearing an avalanche beacon, nor were any of her fellow snowmobilers riding with her that day. Lucky for Dee, she managed to get one of her hands stuck out of the snow. She was very relieved to feel the hand of a friend grab her hand. Luckily her hand was in the glove. As they were digging for Dee, (without shovels) they found it very difficult to find Dee s head, her head was pointing down. This was a very scary time. Dee s head was uncover in about 5 minutes. Dee s sled was also saved, because one ski tip was sticking out also. If Dee s hand was not sticking out of the snow, she would not be with us today. Avalanches are a big deal, and we should all wear avalanche beacons, carry shovels, and snow probes. We don t want someone around here to have to die before we all get the idea how scary and serious avalanches can be. (Thank you Dee for being such a good sport!) Oh, one more thing, Dee went riding the next day after her event with the avalanche. She took the time to call a friend and remind him to bring his avalanche beacon. Guess what Dee forgot? When she got to the snow, she left her avalanche beacon in the truck and forgot to wear it. Good going Dee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD OF THE ORDER: Your Riding Areas: Chuck s Park Page 2

3 REGULAR MEETING MINUTES Cont.: (Deer Mt), Pilgrim Creek Park, 4-Corners Park, Door Knob Park, Alder Creek Divide, Dry Creek, Ash Creek Butte, Duck Lake, Trout Creek, Hemlock Ridge, Medicine Lake area, Rainbow Mt, Little & Horse Peaks, willow Creek, up South Shore towards Tamarack Lake, Seven Lakes Basin, Whelan Station. Duck Award: Dee was awarded the Duck Award for not wearing her avalanche beacon the next day after she was caught in an avalanche. Classifieds: 94 Arctic Cat, 580ZR with SLP Skis and Cover. Strong running hot rod. Call 530/ ask for Tres. UPCOMING EVENTS: 1) Saturday, March 10, Club Ride through the Nordic Center. Meeting places to be announced between riders, Pilgrim Creek, Old McCloud Road out of Mt. Shasta, or Deer Mt. Should plan on meeting at the Nordic Center around noon, will have lunch there (bring your own lunch). NEXT MEETINGS: Board Meeting: None scheduled. Regular Meeting: Friday, March 9, 2001 at Silva s in Weed. Order dinner at 7pm, meeting starts around 7:30pm. ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 8:10pm. Membership News: Newsletter Label: Please check your address label. The (Sept. 01) next to or below your name means your membership is good through September, If there is a (Sept. 00) there, we have not received your membership renewal or you have not paid yet. If there is a (Comp) there, the newsletter is a complimentary copy for nonmembers. Copies go to every member, to local Chambers of Commerce, local Visitors Bureaus, to local FS reps, and to State snowmobile organizations. This mailing we sent out 85 newsletters. R enewals have just stopped and we are at 66 memberships with 141 members. Last season we had 89 memberships with 199 members. There are several members that have not paid their memberships, but I think that they really have just forgotten. I will attempt to get a letter out to them or a phone call. I hate to be a pest. The campaign is going great, we have lots of addresses, over half. I have been forwarding any and all information that has to do with snowmobiling and or land rights. I don t expect you to read all of it, but some of it is very interesting. I d like to thank everyone for renewing and welcome our new members. It is important that we keep our total Club numbers high. We are having to fight harder and harder to keep our riding areas open, and with all of your help, we will make a difference. Eileen CLASSIFIEDS: CLUB STATS: CITY: MEMBERS: Bend, OR 1 Central Point, OR 1 Chico 1 Cottonwood 1 Dunsmuir 8 Fairfield 1 Fremont 1 Gazelle 1 Grenada 1 Jacksonville, OR 1 Klamath Falls, OR 3 Livingston, MT 1 Livingston, TX 1 Macdoel 3 Magilen 1 McCloud 1 Medford, OR 5 Montague 3 Mt. Shasta 11 Oroville 2 Red Bluff 1 Redding 1 Salem, OR 1 S. San Franisco 1 Shasta Lake 1 Simi Valley 1 Weed 1 Windchester, OR 1 Yreka Total Memberships=67 Total Members= 142 Childeren= 28 New Members= 2 Dealer= 4 Numbers as of 03/01/00 Remember to list your snowmobile related classifieds: FOR SALE: 1994 Artic Cat, ZR x 2 inch paddle track, plus lots of trick extras to numerous to mention. Will sacrifice for $ Call Dick Holcomb at 530/ , evenings. FOR SALE: 94 Artic Cat, 580ZR with SLP skis and cover. Strong running hot rod. Call 530/ ask for Tres. To place your snowmobile related ad in the Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers Newsletter contact the Editor, Eileen K. Maier at or <graphicsbyei@snowcrest.ne Page 3

4 Avalanche Weather Factors... Changing Factors - Rapid changes in weather conditions (wind, temperature, snow/ rainfall) cause changes in the stability of the snowpack; therefore, be alert to weather changes. Snowpack changes may adversely affect the cohesiveness of the layers of snow or the forces on weak layers, thereby increasing the likelihood of an avalanche. Winds - Sustained winds of 15 mph or more, even during clear weather, may increase danger rapidly since such winds can quickly redistribute large amounts of loose surface snow. Snow plumes from ridges and peaks indicate that snow is being moved onto leeward slopes, which can accumulate 10 times as much wind-blown snow as nearby valley locations. This can create dangerous wind-slab conditions on lee slopes. Temperature - Cold temperatures tend to maintain an unstable snowpack, while warm temperatures (near or above freezing) allow snow to settle or strengthen more quickly, thus making the snowpack more uniform and stable. Storms - A high percentage of all avalanches occur shortly before, during, or shortly after storms. Rate of Snowfall - Snow falling at the rate of 1 inch per hour or more increases avalanche danger rapidly. New Snow - Be alert to dangerous conditions with a foot or more of new snow. Remember that new snow depth may vary considerable with slope elevations and aspect over short distances. Wet Snow - Rainfall can rapidly weaken surface snow and overload buried, weak layers, sometimes causing avalanches to occur almost instantaneously with the start of rain. Rain may also percolate through the snow until it reaches an ice layer. It can then lubricate the ice layer and produce large, wet-slab avalanches. During sustained rainfall, a series of avalanches may occur on the same slope as progressively deeper snow layers are weakened or stressed. Wet-Slab avalanches are also produced in the spring by strong sunlight radiating through clouds, thereby melting and weakening the snow cover. When followed by clouds overnight, which prevent the snow from refreezing, dangerous avalanche conditions may develop the next day when temperatures increase. Common Questions About Avalanches... If you see your friend get caught in an avalanche Watch them closely. Mentally fix the last seen area and closely watch to see where they end up. This will greatly reduce the search times if you have a good idea where to begin the search. 2. Should you go for help? NO! First, they may not need help and you would needlessly endanger the lives of rescuers. Second, they only have a precious few minutes to breathe under the snow, so every minute counts. If you go for help they most likely will not be alive when you return with a rescue team. Spend about a half hour or an hour searching before you go for help. 3. Is it safe to go in? Yes, usually it s safe. But if your friend is buried in a place with multiple avalanche starting zones looming above and it s snowing hard or blowing hard or there s rapid melting, then there s also a good chance of another avalanche coming down on top of the search area. It s a hard call. If you think it s too dangerous then it probably is. If it s too dangerous then you should go for help. It s a job for professionals. 4. Find a safe route to the avalanche debris. Often you can descend down the avalanche path or come up from the bottom onto the debris. 5. If the victim is wearing a beacon, turn yours to receive and make SURE everyone in your party is turned to receive. Go fast and cover a lot of ground. Look carefully for clues, hands sticking out of the snow, snowmobiles, skies, gloves. In most snowmobile burials, the victim is usually just uphill of their snowmobile. 6. If the victim does not have a beacon then it s a needle-in-a-haystack situation. You have no choice but to look for visual clues and probe. Move quickly. Use a ski pole, collapsible probe or tree branch to randomly probe. Concentrate on debris piled above trees or on benches or any other area with debris accumulation. Probing is difficult, tiring and time consuming, so don t get discouraged. If you don t have any success in the first hour or so, then you need to think about going for help. 7. With multiple burials, go for the shallow burials first. Get them breathing but don t take the time to get time completely dug out, just keep moving and find the next victim and get them breathing, and so on. Get as many people breathing as possible before returning to treat the injured. How long can you live buried in avalanche debris? The good news is that even dense avalanche debris is about percent air, and you can breathe that air- -at least for a few minutes. The bad news is that your breath forms and ice mask over your mouth--a thin layer of ice that forms an impermeable barrier. The latest statistics show that 93 percent of avalanche victims that survive the ride are still alive after 15 minutes, but then the numbers drop catastrophically. After 45 minutes, only eight percent are still alive. In other words, you don t have much time. Where do most avalanche fatalities occur? Almost all avalanche fatalities occur in the backcountry areas outside ski area boundaries where no avalanche control is done. Ski patrollers know down the avalanches each morning with explosives before the public arrives. The type of avalanche hazard mitigation is so successful that only a half of a percent of avalanche fatalities occur inside of ski area boundaries. Similarly, few fatalities occur on highways or in buildings. Almost all occur in the backcountry. Almost all are recreationists and in 95 percent of the fatalities, the avalanche is triggered by the victim, or someone in the victim s party. Page 4

5 Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers: ---DMP=Deer Mountain Park ~March 09, Friday = Regular Meeting - Silva's in Weed. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm. ~March 10, Saturday = Club Ride through the Nordic Center. TBA. Chairperson; Needed ~April 13, Friday = Regular Meeting - China Dragon in Yreka. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm. ~May 11, Friday = Regular Meeting - Silva's in Weed. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm. ~May 12, Saturday = Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup, meet at A12 and 97 at 10am. Chair; Eileen 530/ ~June 08, Saturday = Work Day/Regular Meeting - Clean around the hut, DMP at 10am. ~July 14, Saturday = Work Day/Regular Meeting - Trail Cleaning, DMP at 10am. ~August 18, Saturday = Wood Cutting Day, DMP at 10am. ~September 14, Friday = Board Meeting/ Regular Meeting- membership renewals & approve '01-'02 Schedule Silva's in Weed, at CLUB SCHEDULES FOR SEASON: Sno-Riders: *All events are subject to change due to whether etc. ~3rd = Out of Town Ride TBA ~8th = Club Meeting ~24th - Ride Pilgrim Creek to Medicine Lake ~1st = April Fools Day Potluck & Ashpan ~12th = Club Meeting MAY Chiloquin Ridge Riders ~3rd = Club ride & meeting, TBA ~10th-11th = Medicine Lake steak feed and campout, 4 Corners ~17h = Clube ride, TBA ~24th = 1000 Springs ride ~7th = Club ride & meeting, TBA MAY ~5th - Banquet & elections, TBA Rogue Snowmobilers: ~3rd = Radar run/steak feed/potluck/antique snowmobile display, Lake of the Woods ~4th = Pelican Tutte ride/antique Machines & riders, Lake of the Woods ~6th = General Meeting, Roosevelt School, 7pm ~27th = Board Meeting ~31st = Hot Dog - Potluck, Hamaker Klamath Basin Snowmobilers: ~10-11th = Medicine Lake Steak Feed (Four Corners Snopark), bring side dish for Saturday night. Sat- various rides all day, Steak Feed at 6pm, Sun- breakfast in morning followed by more rides. Non Members are welcome and can et for small fee. ~13th = General Meeting, TBA ~24-25th = Club Ride, TBA P.O. Box 341 Mt. Shasta, CA Page 8

Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers, Inc.

Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers, Inc. P.O. Box 341, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067 Snow Phone: (530) 926-2824 Home Page: http://www.shastacascade.org/snomobilers/ CLUB OFFICERS: President: Dick Cowardin, 459-1903 aldcrek@snowcrest.net Vice President: