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1 P.O. Box 341, Mt. Shasta, CA Snow Phone: (530) Home Page: 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 1-4 WSA Schedule Page 4 Misc Info Stats-Classifieds Page 5 Member list 6-7 Page 5 Pages 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. CALL TO ORDER: Meeting called to order by Eileen Maier at 7:30pm at China Dragon in Yreka. Nine attending. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Minutes approved as mailed from 10/13/ 00 meeting. TREASURERS REPORT (Daphne): Balance as of last meeting, 10/13 of $ Checks Written: $200 BlueRibbon Coalition Legal Fund, $200 CNSA Legal Defense, $38.93 newsletter copies, $66 postage, $12.69 snow phone, $40.00 CNSA membership dues. Deposits: $ membership renewals Membership News: As of December 1st we ve had 56 memberships. Please check your address label, if you see (Sept. 00) next to or below your name, you have not renewed your membership and this will be your last newsletter. If you see (Sept. 01) next to or below your name your membership is good through September, 2001; thank you for your membership! If there is a (Comp) there, the newsletter is a complimentary copy for nonmembers. This newsletter also has the current membership listing inside, so please don t throw it away....eileen CLUB s CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST The Club s Christmas Breakfast scheduled for December 10th has been CANCELLED this year. Due to the chairperson not having any spare time, the cooks not having spare time and the lack of snow, we will not be having our Annual Christmas Breakfast. We will not have a meeting in December either. The next meeting will be on January 12th at Silva s in Weed. There will be a board meeting at 6:30pm and the regular meeting to follow around 7pm. This will be an election meeting so please make plans to attend. Thank you and sorry about the breakfast....eileen REGULAR MEETING ON 11/10/2000 & $40.00 newsletter sponsor. Balance as of 11/ 10 is $ STANDING COMMITTEES: Nordic Bypass: Nothing new on the bypass. We need to schedule a ride through our bypass. 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. OHMVR Grants: Eileen attended the October 31st OHV Grant meeting in Sacramento. This meeting was to review only the Northern, Western, and Central California Grant Page 1

2 REGULAR MEETING MINUTES from 10/13/00 Requests (the Southern region meeting was held on Nov. 2nd). The meeting started at 9am with 86 Grant Requests on the agenda. At the 12:15pm lunch break, we had only got through 22 requests. We were in for a long day! After lunch, the commission announced that they would hold all the summer requests over until the January 2001 meeting. They did not have time today, this cut out 20 requests. This was a very interesting meeting! Due to the law suit that the OHMVR has been trying to handle the past year, things were handled very carefully during the meeting. There were representatives from all types of organizations including, the Serria Club, BlueRibbon, CNSA, 4X4 Clubs, and many more. I though that Paul Spitler s (OHMVR Commissioner appointed by the Senate Rules Committee) answer to the Greenies was to have the program pay for more law enforcement. Daphne Green (OHMVR Commissioner appointed by Governor Davis) ask very detailed questions and seemed to me that she really wanted to make the program work. The meeting started out by going over all the Sheriff s Grant Request. I felt this was out of order, since they do not directly help out with winter programs such as trail grooming, warming huts, that type of thing. I also got very upset with several of the Sheriff s Departments asking that the OHMVR Program pay for county sheriff s search and rescue snow cats. I don t believe that a State run program should have to provide funds for county search and rescue programs. (By the way, guess where the Klamath s old tucker groomer is???? Give up???? Yes, the Siskiyou County Sheriff s office now has the thing for search and rescue. This was a trail grooming machine, why did the sheriff s office get it? It should have gone to another are for trail grooming!!!!!! I don t know, maybe someday we ll find the answers.) Needless to say, we did not get through all the grant requests, we only got through 46 of them. It was after 6:30pm before we quit. All grants not reviewed today will be discussed at the Statewide meeting on November 16th and 17th meeting in Sacramento. Every grant request that was discussed seemed to take for ever, all accept one. One of the big issues was wilderness violations. In fact, the Forest Service has been given special funds this year to plan wilderness fly overs for law enforcement. Guess what? Our very own Mt. Shasta area will have four law enforcement fly overs this season. This is one good year to keep out of the wilderness. I ll talk about this later. As for what effects us in our area. The Doublehead Ranger District sent two reps to the meeting, but they did not come back after lunch. The Mt. Shasta Ranger District sent two reps, Ed and Diane (the biologist), they stayed till the very end and Ed even spoke to Barry after most people had left. There were no reps from the Klamath NF, although they didn t need any. And our local Siskiyou County Sheriff s did not send a rep either. Our Sheriff s asked for $10,000 or 100% increase over the previous grant. This year s grant increases includes: staffing at $9,000 for 7 days of patrol and equipment, operation and maintenance at $1,000. The commission asked if anyone from the sheriff s office was there, nope. Ron Rawlings asked if I wanted to say something on behalf of the sheriff s office. I said No! Ron went up and said that CNSA supports the staff recommendation of $5,000. (Ron feels that you should support at least the staff recommendation of all grant requests to show support for the program and to help keep things running smoothly in those areas) One of the commissioners asked about a letter from the local Club which expressed concern over the grant request for their sheriff s office. Darn, I had to go up and talk to them. I told them that, I was not aware of such a letter this year. We do not have any type of a relationship at all with our local sheriff s office, they seem to not want anything to do with us at all. In the pass, our local sheriff has put in for grant funds and when they requested bullets in their grant, yeah, we were not too impressed with that. Everyone laughed and the commission approved $5,000 to the sheriff s this season. They also said that the commission staff needs to get ahold of the sheriff s department and review law enforcement issues with them. If things could not be straighten out, they might not receive funds next season. The Klamath Nation Forest requested $105,000. The commission asked if anyone had any questions, I came foreword, stated my name, that I was the President of the Mt. Shasta Sno- Mobiles and that we supported the staff s recommendation. No one had any questions and the grant was approved within 2 minutes for $102,000. This was the quickest review and approval all day. The commission did not get to the Shasta/T s grant or the Doublhead s grant. USFS: 1) Klamath National Forest: Nothing. 2) Shasta/Trinity Forest: Ed said that they should have their monitoring plan done by Tuesday, but will be done for sure by the meeting on Thursday and Friday the 16th and 17th of November. Ed is going to the meting, and he said he s just planned to spend the night Thursday because we don t know if they will get to him on Thursday. Groomer Reports: At this time we still do not know if there will be a grooming program this season. 1) Klamath report (Tucker): Nothing. 2) Shasta/Trinity report (Bombardier): The groomer should be leaving sometime within the next two weeks. The FS had to do the maintenance on the machine so that it could be sold or placed in another area. CNSA (Dave Holleman): Eileen has the minutes from the October 7th meeting. Don't forget about the General Fund raffle tickets. They are $20.00 each, they printed only 1000 tickets and the prize is $1600 vacation package of your choice. Safety (Al Burnham): Eileen had Page 2

3 REGULAR MEETING MINUTES Cont.: CNSA Safety Cards. Don t forget about the CNSA Safety/Survival Seminar scheduled for January 27th, We need volunteers to help with lunch, advertising, and what not. We have not even touched any of this. Please help Eileen (me)! 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): Had a cleanup scheduled for Saturday, October 14th. Only 3 adults and 2 kids showed up for the cleanup, so it was not done. Eileen would like someone else to take over this, due to lack of help with the cleanup, if no one takes over, Eileen will call Cal-Trans and have them take our signs down. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Memorial Plaque for Chuck Best: With only Kris and Eileen on the committee, Eileen has not had the time to check on anything as of yet. We will get it done though, give us time. Yellowstone National Park: Hope everyone got their letters in. Thanks for your help!. Club President: Still looking for someone to take over in January. Eileen does not want to see the Club hurt if we do not have anyone who wants to help out, so she said she will stay on if that s what everyone wants, but she wants everyone to understand that she just does not have the time to give the Club right now. She will do her best, but she feels that the Club suffers from the lack of attention, and so does the membership. People for the USA: PFUSA is desolving their organization as of Dec. 31st. They are going to try and keep a CA division open, but will be under a different name. Therefore, we did not send in the $200 to the group that Dick brought up and was voted on last meeting. World Snowmobile Association (WSA) snowcross racing schedule. Please see page 4. CORRESPONDENCE: IN: 1. Blue Ribbon Mag, OSSA, KARE, Rough, Klamath Basin, Sno-Riders, and Siskiyou County Sportsmen Ass. Newsletters. 2. Mt. Shasta Visitor s Guide payment is due again. It's $60.00 if we want to run the ad again. Eileen had a copy of the guide for everyone to look at. A motion was made to run the ad again, the motion was approved and passed. A check will be mailed ASAP. OUT: NEW BUSINESS: New Memberships: None. Renewed Memberships: Dick & Alma Anderson, Norm & Irene Anderson, Rich & Diane Anderson, Doug & Lisa Carter, Central Equipment, Marty & Nancy Chin, Cary & Michaelle Clarke, Rollie & Lynda Elsea from A&R Power Sports, Dennis Fitzgerald, Glen Floyd, Tom & Janice Higgs, Dick & Nancy Holcomb, Klamath Basin Snowdrifters, Jim Lader, Michael & Susan Maloney, Bill and Susan Reynolds, Kale & Kristen Riccomini, Rogue Snowmobilers, Gary & Bobbie Snavely, Dean & Ann Whipple, and Raymond & Sharon Williamson. Dealer Giveaway Memberships: From Rollie at A&R Power Sports = Dennis & Mary Mihalka of Redding, Mark Pigoni of Mt. Shasta, and Jim Harper of Windchester OR. Wilderness: Eileen just wanted to cover our (the Club s) bases on the Wilderness intrusions. As a Club, we should not be policing our members, nor should we be expected to turn any other snowmobiler in that we know has been in or is planning to ride in the wilderness. But the fact is that riding your snowmobile in the wilderness is against the law, and you should not go in there. As a Club, we are asking all snowmobilers to please stay out of wilderness areas. There are plenty of wonderful areas that are not wilderness which we can snowmobile. This season the FS will be planning four (4) fly overs in our own Mt. Shasta area. They will have a plane in the sky and more law enforcement on the ground. Please do not go in the wilderness. When FS law enforcement counts tracks in the wilderness they do not just count one track going in, and one coming out, they count it as two violations. The FS cannot tell if the tracks are ones they counted two days ago or if they are new. Due to these counts, and the fact that there were tickets handed out in our area last year, we are on the list to be strictly enforced. Please spread the word, if wilderness boundaries continue to be crossed in our area, they will put in buffer zones, this means we will loose areas and the Greenies do have more ammo to throw at us. Thank you all. GOOD OF THE ORDER: Your Riding Areas: No one has been out riding yet this year, (that we know of). Duck Award: None. Classifieds: See page 5. UPCOMING EVENTS: 1) None Planned. NEXT MEETINGS: Board Meeting: Friday, January 12, 2001 at Silva s in Weed. Starts at 6:30pm. Page 3

4 REGULAR MEETING MINUTES Cont.: Regular Meeting: Friday, January 12, 2001 at Silva s in Weed. Order dinner at 7pm, meeting starts around 7:30pm. This is an election meeting, please plan on attending. ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 8:20pm. World Snowmobile Assoc Tentative Worldwide Schedule Nov Black Magic Duluth National - Duluth, MN Dec Castle Sales Michigan Challenge - Gaylord, MI Jan. 6-7 Arctic Cat Deadwood Shootout - Deadwood, SD Jan Polaris Canterbury Snocross - Shakopee, MN Jan TBA Jan Forest County Potawatomi 2001 Snocross Odyssey - Crandon, WI Feb Yamaha Eastern National - Syracuse, NY Feb Grand Prix De Valcourt - Valcourt, Quebec Feb Manufactruers Cup - Shakoppe, MN Mar Nielsen Enterprises Grand Final - lake Geneva, WA Feb. 1-4 ESPN Winter X Games - Mount Snow, VT ESPN/espn2 Schedule WSA Snowcross (All times eastern time) Black Magic Duluth National - Duluth, MN Espn2 12/13 Wed 5:30p-6:30p ESPN 12/21 Thu 3:00p-4:00p Espn2 12/24 Sun 6:30p-7:30p Castle Sales Michigan Challenge - Gayloard, MI Espn2 1/03 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 1/07 Sun 1:00p-2:00p Espn2 1/17 Wed 5:30p-6:30p ESPN 1/30 Tue 3:00p-4:00p Arctic Cat Deadwood Shootout - Deadwood, DS Espn2 1/17 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 1/20 Sat 10:30a-11:30a ESPN 2/08 Thu 4:00p-5:00p Polaris Canterbury Snocross - Shakopee, MN Espn2 1/31 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 2/10 Sat 10:30a-11:30a ESPN 3/01 Thu 3:00p-4:00p TBA Espn2 2/07 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 2/17 Sat 10:30a-11:30a ESPN 3/02 Thu 3:00p-4:00p Forest County Patawatommi 2001 Snocross Odyssey - Crandon, WI Espn2 2/14 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 2/17 Sat 7:30p-8:30p ESPN 3/06 Thu 4:00p-5:00p Yamaha Eastern National - Syracuse, NY Espn2 2/28 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 3/24 Sat 1:30p-2:30p ESPN 3/20 Thu 3:00p-4:00p Grand Prix de Valcourt - Valcourt, Quebec Espn2 3/07 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 3/11 Sat 11:00a-12noon ESPN 3/27 Thu 4:00p-5:00p Manufacturers Cup, Canterbury Park - Shakoppe, MN Espn2 4/04 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 4/09 Mon 10:00a-11:00a ESPN 4/30 Mon 4:00p-5:00p Nielsen Enterprises GRAND final - Lake Geneva, WI Espn2 4/11 Wed 5:30p-6:30p Espn2 5/06 Sun 4:00p-5:00p ESPN 5/07 Mon 4:00p-5:00p Page 4

5 Current OHMVR Grant Status Updates on the OHMVR Grants. At the November 16th and 17th meetings, the Klamath, Shasta-Trinty, and Doublehead FS areas will be receiving grant funds. There are still some reports and documentation that must be filed, but as it stands now, there will be road plowing, trail grooming, and law enforcement for this season. Last report is the Shasta-T s groomer should be here sometime around the 18th of this month. Just in time for the snow fall. There will be a groomer class sometime after that, if you would like to attend the class, please call Russ Elgin or Ed Hatakeda. CRATER LAKE, OR Remember to list your snowmobile related classifieds: FOR SALE: 1994 Artic Cal-Ore Snowmobile Racing Assoc Race Schedule Winter Drag Series January 13, 2001 February 3, 2001 February 17, 2001 March 3, 2001 Hillclimb Series February 18, 2001 April 28, 2001 April 28, 2001 May 12-13, 2001 CLASSIFIEDS: Cat, ZR x 2 inch paddle track, plus lots of trick extras to numerous to mention. Will sacrifice for $ Call Dick Holcomb at 530/ , Crescent Lake, OR Bend, OR Chester, CA Crescent Lake, OR Chester, CA Mt. Shasta, CA - Terrain Mt. Shasta, CA - Hillclimb Donner Ski Ranch For more information contact Julie at 541/ or Marty at 541/ eves, 541/ days. Always contact someone before you leave for a race! Yes, we can snowmobile on the one trail that leads to the rim of Crater Lake, for this season anyway. But the future of snowmobiling in almost any National Park is going to be going through an extensive examination. Dave Brennan from Crater Lake National Park stated that the NPS goals are to protect our parks and to maintain them as best they can. We need to show them that snowmobiling will not damage or pollute, disturb wildlife, and can cantain ourselves to the designated areas and be responsible. Most of the help we need will have to come from the Organizations such as the OSSA, Blue Ribbon Coalition, etc..., but we need to let them know how we feel as individuals, so write Dave Brennan or Chuck Lundy at: Crater Lake National Park, P.O. Box 7, Crater Lake, OR HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!! evenings. SOLD: 1990 Artic Cat Jag 440. Electric start, low miles. CLUB STATS: CITY: MEMBERS: Bend, OR 1 Central Point, OR Chico 1 Cottage Grove, OR Cottonwood 1 Douglas City Dunsmuir 8 Fairfield 1 Ft. Jones Fremont 1 Gazelle 1 Grants Pass Grenada 1 Jacksonville, OR Klamath Falls, OR 3 Lake Shastina Livingston, MT 1 Livingston, TX 1 Macdoel 3 Magilen 1 McCloud Medford, OR 5 Montague 2 Mt. Shasta 10 Oroville 1 Red Bluff 1 Redding Salem, OR S. San Franisco 1 Shasta Lake Simi Valley 1 Truckee Weed Windchester, OR 1 Yreka Total Memberships=56 Total Members= 116 Childeren= 22 New Members= 0 Dealer= 3 Numbers as of 12/01/00 To place your snowmobile related ad in the Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers Newsletter contact the Editor, Eileen K. Maier at or <graphicsbyei@snowcrest.ne t>. Ads will be removed after 4 months. Page 5

6 Mt. Shasta Sno-Mobilers: ---DMP=Deer Mountain Park ---TBA=To Be Announced ~November 10, Friday = Regular Meeting - China Dragon in Yreka. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm. ~December 10, Sunday = Christmas Breakfast/ Regular Meeting (nominate Officers and Board Members) - DMP at 9:30am, meeting after. Chair; Eileen 530/ ~December 31, Sunday = New Year's Eve Potluck. Welcome "2001"! DMP at 7pm. Night ride if possible. ~January 12, Friday = Board Meeting/Regular Meeting, Elections - Silva's in Weed. Board Meeting at 6:30pm and Regular 7pm. ~January 27, Saturdday = CNSA Safety/ Survival Seminar at DMP, 10am to 3pm. Chair, Eileen 530/ ~February 09, Friday = Regular Meeting - China Dragon in Yreka. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at 7:30pm.. ~February, through March, Week = CNSA Convention, ~March 09, Friday = Regular Meeting - Silva's in Weed. Dinner at 7pm, meeting at CLUB SCHEDULES FOR SEASON: Sno-Riders: *All events are subject to change due to whether etc. DECEMBER ~14 = Club Meeting JANUARY ~6th = Ride Ashpan to Mineral ~11th = Club Meeting ~27th = Ride Bogart to Westwood FEBRUARY ~8th = Club Meeting ~10th = Sno-Riders 4th Annual Poker Run ~10th = Full Moon Ashpan ~McCall, Idaho Trip - TBA MARCH ~3rd = Out of Town Ride TBA ~8th = Club Meeting ~24th - Ride Pilgrim Creek to Medicine Lake APRIL ~1st = April Fools Day Potluck & Ashpan ~12th = Club Meeting MAY ~10th - Club Meeting ~12th - Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up Rogue Snowmobilers: ---TBA=To Be Announced OCTOBER ~3rd = General Meeting, Medford Power Sports, 7pm ~21-22nd = Work Party - Wood Shed, 1000 Springs ~31st = Board Meeting NOVEMBER ~7th = General Meeting, Performance Motorsports, 7pm ~28th = Board Meeting Klamath Basin Snowmobilers: ---TBA=To Be Announced OCTOBER ~10th = General Meeting, Open House- BBQ, bring side dish, Boss Motorsports, 6:30pm NOVEMBER ~14th = General Meeting, Potluck, Klamath Basin Equipment, 6:30pm DECEMBER ~2nd = Club Ride, place and time decided at meeting ~6th = Decorate float for Snowflake Parade, P.O. Box 341 Mt. Shasta, CA Page 8

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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: