REGULAR MEETING MINUTES for 05/01/08
CALL TO ORDER - By: Eileen K. Maier At: China Dragon in Yreka Time: 7:07 pm Number Attending: 6
APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM MEETING: Meeting from 04/03/08, as posted on the web site, so approved.
TREASURER'S REPORT (Larry): No Report.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES:
Nordic Bypass: The Elgin’s and the Riccomini’s did a ride through the bypass on Saturday, April 5th. They unloaded at the Nordic Center, rode M31 east around the ski park, rode up hill and down dale, climbed this and that, side hilled here and there, when up through the east gate just skirting the wilderness area, which incidentally is signed better than they remember in the past, up to the north side of Grey Butte, down to Panther Meadows, past Bunny Flat, did the Wagon Camp road and the power line, back down to M31 on the west side of the Nordic Center, and used the bypass back to the parking lot. (They did not unload in the Nordic Center parking lot; they used the alternate parking lot on the east side of the road.) Doc would not subject any of our Club members to riding the bypass. It was horrible, and things got to be bad for him to not want to ride a trail of any kind. They all agreed that we are not gonna do it again this season. Doc did admit that the crossing from the Nordic Center to the lower parking lot was better than he ever imagined it could be. It was groomed, no snow banks had to be climbed across the ski park highway, and frankly from the NC to the parking lot was the best of the “groomed” trail they road that day. The ski park has been grooming the M31 to four mile east of the parking for their more adventurous boarders and cross-country skiers. They ran into one bare pavement spot, about 40 feet. Eileen said that the M31 Road going east of the ski park highway was being groomed for Pat doing his dog sled rides.
Warming Huts/Sheds/Sno-Mobile Parks: Chuck’s Park: Nothing new. 4-Corners/Medicine Lake: Nothing new. Door Knob: Nothing new. Pilgrim Creek: As of the 19th, the road leaving the park and heading to Medicine Lk is very bad. There is a big snow berm at the parking area, so you can’t drive past the park, and the road leading out has way too many bare spots and big trees down across the road. Once sot we had to leave the road to get around a tree.
USFS: Shasta-Trinity: Nothing new. Klamath: Nothing new.
Grooming Reports: Klamath/Modoc report: Nothing new. Shasta/Trinity report: After voting to have the groomer just shipped back for it’s summer maintenance schedule, we found out that it will not be going this summer. Not enough hours on the groomer to do that. They will fix the groomer at Chuck’s Park, groom back to Pilgrim Ck and do any further maintenance there. This has been all done. No grooming happening, not enough snow to groom.
OHMVR: They do have a meeting planned in June in Sacramento, but there are still only three commissioners so they really can’t get anything done anyway.
CNSA: Nothing new.
Safety: Nothing new.
Public relations: Nothing new.
PHI Air Ambulance (Eileen Maier): If anyone is interested in joining, Eileen has applications.
Adopt-A-Highway (Dick Holcomb & Bill Willison): Need to get a hold of the chairmen and find out when they want to have the clean up. Should be the end of May. Will make phone calls to people for help.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
Wilderness Intrusions: Eileen did not see or hear of anyone getting busted for riding in the wilderness this season. Thank you to all.
Xmas Tree Farm: Grooming done for the season.
Club’s Trailer: Still at Eileen’s house. We have the shelving to put together and secure to the walls. Will have a day during the summer to get everything together and moved into the trailer.
Club Web Site: As of Wednesday, the hit count for the Home Page was 107 more than last meeting at 4691 (4584 last meeting) and the Conditions were 109 more at 3174 (3065). The “LowRes” hit count for the Home Page was 8 at 445 (437) and the Conditions were 3 at 245 (242). Once again I’d like to stress how important it is that you let me know snow conditions at the Parks and trails when you ride. I can only cover so many places to find out what conditions are and if I don’t hear from you, I can’t keep the web site up to date.
Also, Eileen received an email from Dana Bainbridge, “co-owner of http://www.shastahome.com a portal site which provides information about Northern California and Southern Oregon. I am also a fellow local snowmobilier. We are creating an article about snowmobiling in the area and would like to have permission to use information from and link to your site: http://www.snowcrest.net/mssc/index.html. Your site has a lot of pertinent information on snowmobiling in the area. We link to non-profit sites for free but charge to have other "for profit" businesses links leaving our site. For examples of our articles you can view some of what we have started here http://www.shastahome.com/Recreation. As you will see many of the articles are "under constructions" including the snowmobiling article. Let me know if you will grant us permission to the above stated request or have any questions you would like to ask. With an average of over 12,000 unique visits to our site per month, by participating in an information exchange with shastahome.com your web traffic to your site will likely increase, for free. Regards, Dana Bainbridge dana@shastamarketing.com ” Eileen emailed the Board asking them what they thought, and since she only heard back from Doc, she is asking everyone at the meeting what they think. Everyone thought it would be fine.
Club Stickers: Eileen has the Club stickers, does anyone want one? Eileen has purchased some envelopes that they fit in for mailing. I don’t know how many stickers we can fit into an envelope before postage goes up, but will find out. If someone wants to have stickers mailed to them, they can pay extra for the envelope and the postage. Eileen sent 2 stickers to Cliff Pruitt. The Club is asking for a $2.00 donation per sticker.
Sno-Phone: At our last meeting we decided to get rid of the sno-phone. Eileen talked to Dion to see if he wanted to keep the line. He was going to ask Christine and get back to us.
CORRESPONDENCE: IN: No mail brought to meeting. OUT: Nothing.
NEW BUSINESS:
Membership numbers: As of today, 5 new members, 13 last season.
Total Memberships: As of today, 55 memberships, 58 last season.
Membership Number: As of today, 120 total members, 131 last season.
Club Rides/Activities: We did have the Club Ride on the 19th. It was a pretty good group that showed up. We thought that we would have some more riders with us, but they had a little one and rented two of the Fun Factory sleds and just wanted to take their time and not hold us up. We tried to explain that Club Rides were for everyone, no matter what their experience, but there were two groups. The eight of us never saw the group again, and they were gone before we got back. Dion took us over hill and dale (I don’t even know a dale, but I do now.) We did have one problem with a sled; it was a short track and had problems coming off one of the hills too fast. Luckily there was a tree there to stop it. He was fine and the sled really wasn’t that bad either. We did make a mad dash to Medicine Lk, but had eaten lunch way before we got there. Then there was a mad dash back to… well the trail where the pavement was showing through. We tried going off road to get out of riding the pavement, but instead we rode dirt, bushes, rocks, you name it, we rode it. Dion did get us back to the Park and we had a wonderful dinner at Dos Amigos in Weed together before going home. It was a great day and we rode 84 miles.
GOOD OF THE ORDER:
Your Riding Areas – Your Riding Areas – Bunny Flats, Deer Mt, Whale Back, Jack Rabbit Flat, X-mas Tree Farm, Rainbow Ridge, Trout Lk, Antelope Lks, Pilgrim Ck, M31 Road, Cramer Springs, Ash Creek, Dry Ck Ridge, Ash Ck Creator, 4-Corners, Medicine Lk, Doorknob, South Shore to the Eddies, Parks Creek, to the Eddies – Bull Lk, Dead Fall Lks, 7 Lk Basin, Kangaroo Lk, Goosenest area, Ball Mt, Willow Ck area, Siskiyou’s via Beaver Ck Rd, area, Mt. Bradley riding from Dunsmuir, thru the Nordic Center and that side of Mt. Shasta, Tamarack Lk, 7-Lakes Basin, South Shore Lk Siskiyou to the Eddies and beyond.
Duck Award – We think Phil Carey still has the duck; no one was nominated for it.
Classifieds – Remember to get your snowmobile related items, with pictures, to Eileen so she can get them on the web site. Don’t forget to let Eileen know when you’ve sold your item so she can remove it.
RIDES/ACTIVITIES OF THE MONTH – None scheduled.
TIME AND PLACE OF NEXT BOARD MEETING – None scheduled.
TIME AND PLACE OF NEXT REGULAR MEETING - ***June, July, Aug, Sept are work months to be announced.
ADJOURNMENT: Time: 7:20 pm.
