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Originally Posted by Closetzguy
Time to sell the sleds......ability to ride locally was really the only reason I got into this.  |
A few years back when I was on the Board of Directors at the New Hampshire Snowmobile Association a contributor from the NH Bureau of Trails made an ominous prediction: the frequently warmer and shorter winters south of the notches, coupled with an ever increasing angst by landowners, made him feel that major trail closures would occur within five years, and that within ten years most riding south of the notches would be no longer connected but reduced to a number of loop systems within those clubs that could survive.
I think we are right at his five year benchmark and I believe that within five more years a number of clubs within an hour or two drive of the Lakes Region will be but a fond memory.
I believe there will still be plenty of riding in Coos County, but that the crowding up there means that more and more NH folks that stay in the sport will continue to migrate to Maine and Quebec.