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large snowstorm, you could be getting back in when the
sun is just coming back up. I’ve done that myself on quite a
few occasions.”
Stitham says the club’s trail master is his good friend
Kevin Goodine – a job Goodine takes very seriously and does
very well.
“Goodine works well with all the other operators and he’s
really passionate about making sure that the trails are in excel-lent
condition. He comes down here on his days off to check
on the machine to make sure the equipment is where it needs
to be, so that nobody gets stuck out in the middle of the night
with a broken machine,” said Stitham.
“He understands that the position of trail master goes far
beyond the maintaining of the trails. His attention to detail
has made our trails some of the safest and nicest in the area.”
Pandemic Impact
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on
snowmobiling as it’s had over so much of
daily life.
Tim Stitham, president of the Washburn Trail
Runners Snowmobile Club, said for his club,
“the pandemic brought everything to a
screeching halt the second week of March
last year.”
That’s when the decision was made to close
down the clubhouse, even though there
were hundreds of people still coming in from
all over to take advantage of what were
“phenomenal” snowmobiling conditions at
the time.
Stitham says the club lost revenue by closing
the kitchen early as well as not having summer
clubhouse rentals, “but we felt that was far
better than not doing our part to try to flatten
the curve.”
There’s still so much uncertainty about the
future impact of COVID-19, but Stitham
believes that a successful vaccine could be a
real boon for snowmobiling.
“I expect we could see it explode because
everybody’s been hunkered down for so
long,” he said.
Stitham says if the situation is such that
Washburn Trail Runners is able to open up its
clubhouse and kitchen to the public this winter,
it will do everything it can to ensure everyone’s
safety by carefully following Center for Disease
Control guidelines for proper sanitization and
social distancing precautions.
30 January 2021 | snowopsmag.com
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