Club Newsletter. Box 1849 Revelstoke BC. December, PRESIDENTS REPORT by Greg Byman

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Some noteworthy topics this month that we have been addressing include: Search and Rescue Protocol on Boulder (or any of the other areas): I had the opportunity to talk with our local RCMP Staff

1 Club Newsletter Box 1849 Revelstoke BC December, 2011 I PRESIDENTS REPORT by Greg Byman went for my weekly walk around town this past Thursday night and I was pleasantly surprised at how many trucks and trailers are already filling up the accommodation parking lots in town. It is good to see that when we made the claim Revelstoke is open for business you took it seriously. Some noteworthy topics this month that we have been addressing include: Search and Rescue Protocol on Boulder (or any of the other areas): I had the opportunity to talk with our local RCMP Staff Sergeant Jackie Olson regarding the procedure for seeking help if needed. S.S. said that the RCMP are the first to be contacted and at that time they will issue a task number to PEPP (Provincial Emergency Preparedness Program) to initiate any search and rescue. We do have a radio at the cabin on Boulder with the Search and Rescue and the snowmobile club channels. This radio can be accessed by club executive or by Becky. There is also cell service above the cabin. Multi-Use on Local Mountains: You may see helicopters and heli-skiing taking place within our riding areas. Eagle Pass Heli-Ski has applied for an extension to their tenure around Begbie Mtn. and Griffin Mountain. Canadian Mountain Holidays has skied Turtle Mtn. for several years now and their runs cross over our trail access. A follow up meeting with CMH identified that a little more signage might be necessary to help keep a single track through the ski run and make it safer for all involved. Additional signage will be placed at the back end of the Kirkup where they will be landing helicopters on the road. So please watch for landing aircraft. We mentioned a survey was being developed by the Revelstoke Economic Development Committee to determine how much of an economic impact snowmobiling has on Revelstoke. This survey will be available very soon so watch for it. I would like to thank the many sponsors and supporters of the Team Thunderstruck Premiere at the Regent Pub on Nov. 26. Special thanks to Randy Swenson and Kathy Burke for putting on such an amazing event and to the many sledders who spent a lot of money to support the Food Bank and the CAC. We raised $1765 and a pile of food for the Food Bank and approximately $11,000 was raised through the auctions. I am proud of the sledding community and how they have stepped up to support Avalanche Awareness. Ride Safe and a very Merry Christmas and the best of the New Year from all of us in the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club to all of you. TRACKS THAT DON T LAST

2 I Behind the Scenes by Ron LaRoy cannot not believe how this season is starting. The number of sledders coming to Revy and the number of new members into the club, both local and non-local is fantastic. It is hard just to keep up with the way memberships are selling at the outlets we have them in. A note to clear up any misunderstandings though. When you purchase your membership we ask that you stick BOTH decals, the BCSF Trail pass Decal and the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club decal onto your sled. Don t put one on your sled and the other on your trailer, it doesn t work that way. If you do not want to put them onto your sled, a suggestion then is to stick them onto a small piece of plastic that you can carry in your jacket pocket. You can show this to the person at the booth and away you go. This works well if you have more than one sled. Why do we want you to show them at the booth? Some members are flashing by the booth without stopping to show the decals. When you are all dressed up in your gear, we don t know who you are, we just see goggles and a full face helmet, you all look the same. Take a minute to stop, show your decals and then you can leave. We are also able to give you updated information about what is happening on the particular mountain that day: i.e. logging on Frisby, conditions of trails, which trail has been groomed, etc. Back to the question why do we want to see both decals? If you show us the BCSF decal only we don t know if you are a member of another BCSF club or a member of our club. A member of our club gets by the booth with that decal; a member of another BCSF club gets a discount to go up the mountain but still has to pay a partial fee. That is why we want to see BOTH the Federation decal AND the club decal. Simple isn t it? Some others have been shooting by the booth without stopping and buying a trail pass for the day. You paid, why shouldn t they? Your pass goes to more than just the trail. It helps fund the infrastructure on the mountain and it helps maintain that infrastructure, it pays to brush and clear trails during the summer and to install new culverts, it pays travel to meetings to keep our areas open and yes it helps to pay for the grooming of the trails. There has been some talk about I m not paying, they got free money for the cabin so why should I pay now? Well I am here to tell you it was not free money. True a lot of it was grant money but there was a lot of work involved in getting that money and a lot of work involved after the fact in getting the cabin built. For those of you who do not realize, the club had to pay out $30,000 in cash towards the building of that cabin, the money did not just fall out of the sky. So come on, if you can afford the sled, you can afford the fee to use a maintained area. A reminder that the West Entrance booth (the one on the trail from Peaks Motel) is now open and you will be expected to stop and purchase a trail pass if you don t have one or to show your proof of current membership/trail pass. We understand that the construction of the cell tower is nearing completion and the cement barriers will soon be removed and the trail restored to better condition. Bear with us for the mean time, things will improve. A reminder that the trails are being groomed to the best of our ability right now. With the lack of new snow it is hard to put a better finish on any of the trails. If we do, it takes off too much snow and we are soon down to the dirt. Snow is on it s way, just can t seem to get here quick enough. Also Becky is now running the food service at the Boulder Cabin and is serving Friday, Saturday and Sundays so if you want a fresh cooked meal on the mountain, bring some cash! REMINDER: All restrictions go into effect on the 1st of January. That includes the partial restriction on Frisby Ridge, the partial restriction on Sale Mountain, the closure of Standard Basin on Keystone and the complete closure of Caribou Basin. We re not happy about them either but continue to work towards the reopening of both Standard Basin and Caribou Basin. In the meantime though, even though we do not agree with those two closures, we ask that you respect them. They are posted. Watch for the signs for the closure of Standard Basin though. They have not been posted right at the cabin but rather on the boundary line which is about 500 meters beyond the cabin. We have asked that a sign be posted at the cabin and hopefully this will be done. The signs on the boundary line are on tall steel posts and are only about 10 square so they are hard to see (go figure on that one, hey!). Restrictions come off for ALL AREAS on the 16th of April. The north end of Frisby is now open to sledding so the only restrictions in effect on that mountain are the ones to your right going in from the front to the green tower. There are also elevation restrictions but do not interfere to much as they are quite a ways down the mountain but are listed on the new trail map.

3 Club Events January 21: March 3: Canadian Avalanche Center Avy days Boulder Mtn Cabin Revelstoke Snowmobile Club Ladies Ride. Lots of fun and activities planned for this event. Book early! For information on all of these events contact Kathy Burke at As more details come available they will be posted on the club s website: revelstokesnowmobileclub.com and in the newsletter Avalanche Course by Amber Wood O AVALANCHE COMPANION RESCUE COURSE n January 28, Trigger Point Avalanche Training will be holding a new course called the Companion Rescue Course. The Companion Rescue Course will train students to: Consider preventative measures. Analyze transceiver functions. Apply search and rescue techniques. Identify post incident considerations. Prerequisites: Course participants must have completed an Avalanche Skills Training Level 1, have practiced with their equipment since their AST1 and be 18 years of age or older prior to enrolling in the Companion Rescue Refresher. Format & Activities: Course content is comprised of 100% practical application and fieldwork and will be conducted over a minimum of 7 hours in one day. Field activities will include demonstrations, problem solving, small group work and simulations. Equipment & Materials: Participants will be required to bring the following essential equipment: Appropriate winter clothing and footwear. Transceiver (3 antenna digital beacon is recommended). Shovel. Probe. Backpack to carry everything on your back. SIGN UP Contact Amber Wood at for further information and pricing or to sign up for the course. We need to confirm your previous AST1 enrollment. The course will be limited to 16 students only, so sign up early.

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6 Team Thunderstruck Premiere Report by Kathy Burke he Revelstoke Snowmobile Club held it s 4th Annual start of the season with the Team Thunderstruck T Premiere on Saturday, November 26 at the Riverside Pub in the Regent Hotel. An auction was held in conjunction with the Premiere. This is our traditional way of starting the season and sledders were asked again this year to bring along items for the Revelstoke Food Bank as their admission fee. Cash donations were also made and raffle tickets sold on items generously donated by supporters, sponsors and club members. Snowmobilers visiting Revelstoke that weekend had traveled from as far away as Manitoba and the NW United States. Together we donated 250 lbs of food and a cheque for $1765. That was tremendous and thanks to all for the support. Greg and I made the presentation on December 1 at the Food Bank. Patti Larson, Food bank co-ordinator asked me to thank all of you and to tell you, you are the best. They very much appreciate our donations and this is the 4th year that we have been the first to donate to the Food Bank Christmas Hamper. The auctions raised $11,000 which was split between the Canadian Avalanche Center and the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club to promote avalanche awareness for snowmobilers. The Revelstoke Snowmobile Club, the Snowmobile Revelstoke Society and the BC Snowmobile Federation have worked closely with the CAC for many years in Revelstoke supporting avalanche awareness. For the past 2 years we have included the auction which supports the CAC at our Annual Avalanche Awareness Days which will be held once again on Boulder Mountain on January 21, Make sure you all attend that day at the Boulder cabin. There were some very touching donations made at the auction and I would personally like to thank Randy Swenson (Yamaha Motor Canada/Team Thunderstruck) and our good friend and club member Jeff Rosner for running the auction. So many items were purchased by club members and then re-donated so they could be auctioned off again. The support was unbelievable. Our generous supporters include: Yamaha Motor Canada Team Thunderstruck Boost It Fuel Systems Back Country Access 509 Blair Morgan Norval Rentals Rozzy Canadian Avalanche Centre Mountain Motor Sports (Golden BC) Mountains Edge Cycle & Sled, Sundrie, AB. Rough Country Marine Boulder Smokin Grill Al and Simone Erickson Revelstoke Snowmobile Club Sharon Shook Tracks Canada Smokin Dave Lordco UAP Napa Mountain Meals CanDoo Amble Inn B&B Keys Pleez Amber Wood, Trigger Point Services Footnote: A special thanks to Kathy for working hard to put this event on each year, it gets better and better each time. (Ron) A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE

7 Membership & Insurance Information The Membership Application Form is on the following page. embership fees remain the same as last year: Family: $180 M Single: $130 Child: $30 Senior: $75 Non-Rider: $10 A family includes ANY TWO people in the SAME household, eg: husband/wife, father/son or daughter. It DOES NOT include two members of the family, one living in one place and the other at another address. A child membership is classed as anyone under the age of and over would qualify for a single membership. A senior membership is anyone 65 and older. A non-rider is self-explanatory but this membership does NOT include a Trail Pass decal, only a club decal and membership card for both the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club and the BC Snowmobile Federation. If the child is under 16 and rides their own snowmobile they are required to have a Trail Pass as well, the membership includes the Trail Pass for the whole season. Your membership also includes a membership into the BC Snowmobile Federation. This membership includes special offers and/or discounts at the following: Sandman Hotels Capri Insurance Mark s Work Wearhouse Wide Open Throttle Amsoil The 3rd Party Liability Insurance is available to any RSC and BCSF member at a special rate of $70 for $1 million coverage. If buying the insurance, fill out the application COMPLETELY, that means: sign the form, PRINT your name, snowmobile year, make and model and most importantly, serial number and your drivers license number, without this information we cannot process the application. Please print clearly, You would not believe the number of applications we got last year that we could not read, therefore you did not receive a newsletter and you did not receive the SnoRiders West Magazine. We NEED to be able to read your information. Fill out an application for EACH membership you are buying, yes even the kids. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS, WE ONLY PASS IT ONTO THE BC SNOWMOBILE FED- ERATION, IT GOES NOWHERE ELSE.! IT REALLY SAVES US MONEY WHEN MAILING YOUR NEWSLETTER AND OTHER CORRESPONDENCE.REMEMBER FREE, POSTAGE EXPENSIVE! Memberships are also available in Revy at Rough Country Marine, Days Inn, Sandman, Sled Shed or via the club s website.

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8 REVELSTOKE SNOWMOBILE CLUB 2012 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION PLEASE ADDRESSES FREE..POSTAGE EXPENSIVE REVELSTOKE SNOWMOBILE CLUB Box 1849 Revelstoke, BC V0E 2S0 CANADA RATES: Single: $130 Non-Rider: $10 Family: $180 Insurance: $70 Child: $30 Senior: $75

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