For the first weekend of March, we met friends at the Sand Dam Rd. parking and staging site about 25 kilometres north of North Bay on Highway 11, at the intersection of TOP A/D and TOP A102Q. As we packed our gear onto the sleds for our overnight getaway, the clouds started to part and...
Grooming Equipment 101
The OFSC provincial fleet consists of two major kinds of large industrial equipment: purpose built machines and tractor conversions. Some clubs also use smaller drags, towed by utility sleds for early season packing of wet areas and for maintaining tighter local trails and portages. Tractor conversions are...
Must-Watch Respect Landowners Video
OFSC clubs are the front line of contact with our landowners. These landowners give clubs permission for snowmobile-only, winter-only, OFSC Prescribed Trails on their private property for our recreational enjoyment. That permission is a privilege to be cherished, not a right to be taken for granted. Every snowmobile...
Managing A Multi-Million Dollar Grooming Fleet
On February 24, the OFSC Facebook page posted an item entitled “Grooming Equipment 101”, which also appeared in our Feb 23 newsletter. It attracted a stream of comments questioning how groomers are allocated, used and located, so here’s a behind-the-scenes look to provide a better understanding of what’s...
Couples Who Ride Together, Stay Together
As a couple who ride together, we enjoy the beauty of being out on our trails taking in what the OFSC has to offer. After a long 25 years, we decided to get back into snowmobiling in December of 2020. We made a plan to purchase one snowmobile to use to make sure that we...
