The Trailbusters Snowmobile Club, Inc. is a non-profit snowmobile club founded
in 1966. The club maintains over 41 miles of Class A trails over both public and
private lands. The club provides snowmobile safety education classes and encourages
preservation, conservation and a healthy respect of nature and the environment.
In the News
The Lee Center Trailbusters would like to thank all
of our landowners for their generous cooperation in allowing us to have
trails travel across their property. Without their support, it would
not be possible to have these trails.
TRAILS ARE CLOSED
January 27th - This is bad, really bad.
Its that Time of
Year Again! Please Join or Renew Your Trailbusters
Membership!
Please follow the Join
the Club link on the left to join or renew your Trailbusters membership.
If you enjoy our trails and would like to become a club member, we offer two options to join. You can print out our application form and
send it in by mail or you can choose the NYSSA online membership application
and printout your membership voucher immediately. Either way, we thank you for supporting the Trailbusters
Snowmobile Club!
FYI, you can no longer join a snowmobile club at the DMV. If
you do not join a club, your registration fee will be $100 per sled. If you
do join a club, the registration fee is $45 per sled. The Trailbusters
Snowmobile Club would be honored to have you join us as a member!
Thank you to everyone who has already joined!
Trail
Work
If you can and would like to
pound posts and other work required to open the trails, contact John Beggs
at 337-0359 and let him know.
Minor Trail Changes
There are a couple
minor trail changes. One on C7 at Cemetery Road behind the housing
development. Trail has been routed away from the homes for a
distance before proceeding through the page fence opening. Please
drive slowly through here and be as quiet as you can be as we have had
complaints from homeowners here of speed and loud pipes, especially late
at night. Up in West Branch on C4, after crossing the bridge and
turning right heading north, the landowner had us move the trail to the
right before you cross the River Road. This area has been fenced so
we hope all show respect to the landowner here as well as on the entire
trail system.
Club
Fundraiser Raffle
Congratulations to Carl Goodhines who won the
Echo GT-200 Gas Trimmer and to Vinny DiCastro who
won the Echo
PB-251 Gas Handheld Blower in our recent club fundraiser. These
items were donated for the raffle by Schoff Polaris. Thank
you to all who participated.
2011 Scholarship Winner
Thomas N. Theall, left, a 2011 graduate of
Rome
Free
Academy
, is shown receiving a $250.00 scholarship awarded annually by the
Trailbusters Snowmobile Club, Inc., Lee Center, NY. John
E. Beggs, Trailbusters Scholarship Chairman, made the presentation.
Theall has been accepted at SUNY Oswego and will major in technology
management. He is the son and stepson
of Tom and Lisa Theall,
Rome
, and Sharon Ross,
Utica
.
Here's an Easy Way to
Help the Club - Save Those Gas Receipts!
The club is again collecting gas receipts for gas purchased for
snowmobile use. The club can apply
for an 8 cent refund from NYS for each gallon used.
If we get enough receipts this could amount to a sizeable refund.
We have a box and signature sheet at Stewart’s in Stokes/State Route
26N (Trail C7) and Nice N Easy (Trail C7) at Hawkins Corners/State Route 26N.
In addition to depositing your receipt, you must sign
your name to the sheet for each purchase.
Better yet, save your snowmobile gas receipts from
anywhere you purchase the gasoline. Attach the receipts to
your signature sheet, which can be obtained by clicking on either link below,
sign for all your purchases and mail them to the club at the end of the season, no
later than 15 April 2011. Remember,
only save receipts for gas purchased for snowmobiles.
Hopefully, by keeping track of your own purchases we will have a larger
participation rate for this program as many pay at the pump and don’t make the
trip into the store. This can be a
great fundraiser for our groomer fund, please help.
Gas
Receipt Signature Sheet - Microsoft Word Format
Gas
Receipt Signature Sheet - pdf Format
For example: for every 100 gallons purchased, the club receives $8.00. If a good
percentage of the membership (say 300 members) send in their receipts for 100
gallons, than the club will be reimbursed $2,400. That would be a very, very
successful fund raiser. Again, please help.
Email
Addresses
Emailing the club newsletter
makes this task much simpler, faster and more cost effective. If you are not
on our email list, please provide your address. We will be e-mailing the
newsletter as well as any pertinent snowmobile related information as it happens.
Don't be left out.
Use this link to add e-mail address
For additional club news, go to the Newsletters link on the left and
check out the most recent or historical club newsletters.
