Signage Damage June 19, 2016

To all SJATV Club Members

This is a reminder of why we sign the trails.

It’s for the safety of all the ATV riders.

Keep in mind we have many young inexperienced riders.

Last Saturday we installed all new signs through our trail system.

We were out on the trails today and we could not believe what we seen. Someone used a motorized vehicle whether it was a truck or an ATV and drove over signs on the Ryan Rd, at both ends of the Sands Rd and both ends of Germaine Brooke Rd.  The Sands Rd at one end was also blocked off by large trees which may have caused serious injury or death to an ATV driver.  Also signs were stolen from theses areas.

These signs are put there incase of emergency vehicles need to find you if your injured.

There is a new map which will be available soon which corrosponds with the number system on our trails so no one will get lost.

These signs are government property and there are consequences to having them damaged or stolen.

By removing these signs you could cause a death or maybe someone getting lost.

To who it may concern, the trail police will be notified of this act which means there will be more of a presence on our trails.

A reward will be offered to any information regarding the theft of these signs which leads to an arrest.

 

Trail Signing June 11, 2016

On the weekend we installed signs on our trails.

Thank you to the volunteers who showed up.

The blue Trail number 10 is our portion of the provincial trail which will travel

throughout the province.

All clubs will have a Trail 10. Similar to the TCH 2

The other trails are numbers with the green signs are our local trails.

Our club is club #35.

So, 3501, 3502, etc in no particular order.

A map is being produced to reflect these numbers.

This is the standard for trail signs in the province. Not ours.

Ride Safe!

Check out our pictures in our Photo Gallery!

 

About the Groomed/Non-groomed Trail Permits

Groomed / non Groomed trail permits.

I would just like to confirm what we talked about at our meeting.

As we said at the meeting the NBATV Federation is the trail manager appointed by the Dept of Natural resources to manage trail permits. Thus the definition on the www.nbatving.com website explains the difference between the 2 permits.

So again a non groomed pass is valid on the managed trails when grooming or plowing is not required to access the trail.

This means the non groomed permit is valid now.

Having said that they are going to add some more clarification to the definition, when it comes to when grooming is done for the season, in the near future.

On that note, for this year after looking at the 2 week long range forecast, the executives have decided that we are done grooming for this year.

That should help avoid any confusion that’s left out there for the rest of this year.

Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you can run snowmobile managed trails. They are off limits until their leases are up on April 15th.

Also if you are out on the trails right now use extreme caution. Trails are very icy and dangerous in certain areas.

Ride Safe !

TRAIL UPDATE…USE EXTREME CAUTION

Please use extreme caution when out on trails.

There are a few that have been washed out due to the rain last week.

  • Germaine Brook – there are 2 bad spots….very dangerous
  • Irish River – new culvert is gone and a very bad washout
  • The 32  coming up from Stoney Brook Lodge is extremely dangerous. Its washed out in a few places
  • Porcupine Mountain is extremely dangerous, the center is all washed out
  • The Quaco Road has many wash outs
  • The Ryan Road – the pavement by bridge has moved and caused a wash out

PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN/IF YOU GO ON THESE TRAILS OR STAY OFF THEM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.