12-25-2010

Trail work volunteers Dave and Bevie Radaker checked out the newly completed BMAC/VASA West Rutland Town trail which BMAC calls the 2 mi. loop, on Christmas morning. They gained accessed to the trail from their land, which is west of Man MT. and on our BMAC/VASA signed permission trails.

Weather permitting we will be doing winter trail work from the BMAC Trail Head in Ira on West Rd. So if you're interested, contact us by email to be on organized trail work or come to the Jan. 9, 2011 club meeting at Sweet Carolines Restaurant in West Rutland, VT. for discussion.

12-25-2010

Trail work volunteers, Dave (Trail Coordinator) and Bevie (Secretary)

Thank You from the Farrell's

BMAC received a very nice Christmas card & thank you from our landowners John & Susan Farrell.


John wrote;
We deeply appreciate your generous gift certificate. It was a pleasure to have BMAC members ride the trails on our land, as everyone was polite and respectful of us and our land. Again, thank you all for your kindness. The Farrell's

Thank You from Landowner Ted Sheloski

Ted Sheloski, To the BMAC officers and all members, Dixie and i would like to thank you all for the gift you didnt have to do it i do what i do for the love of the sport and to make new friends . So once again thank you and from all of us here on the farm to all of you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year the trail head will be open for winter riding and the logger will start soon.

To explain Ted's Thank You

Ted is the one landowner that is on Facebook and monitors our Blog, so now that he's received his card, it's safe to openly tell. After this past Sunday's meeting the President of BMAC made a suggestion and all the officers, B.O.D., and the BMAC appointed reps agreed on behalf of BMAC, to give our landowners a $50 gift certificate to Sweet Caroline's restaurant, in W. Rutland as a year end thank you for their hospitality in supporting BMAC and VASA. Sweet Caroline's is also a supporter of BMAC and is right on the way to our BMAC trail head on West Rd. in Ira.

Sweet Caroline's Restaurant has been judged "The Best of the Best" family restaurant in the Rutland region. Fantastic food, excellent pricing and wonderful owners and servers.
Enjoy Ted & Dixie, John and Susan and Brian..Merry Christmas!!!

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Nov. 29, 2010

Pictures of the BMAC/West Rutland Town 2 mi. loop

The wet areas crossing the snow covered trail are actual water bars. In the last 2 months since the Last Hoorah, the rains had practically washed out the entire trail of the 2 mi. loop that leads up to Herrick. Our contractor did a fantastic job of saving this trail. It was a good thing we were able to get the work done before winter. Now the trail can settle and will be an excellent ATV trail next year.
Thanks to VASA for monetary support and guidance! And V.P. Ray Viger for assisting Dave with getting the pictures today

11-29-2010

BMAC's 2 mi. Loop up to Herrick

More good BMAC trails completed

Great news! Our contractor has completed Man MT. and it's closed off for winter on the West side. Pics soon!

He also completed the 2 mi. loop before the ground became solid and it's one fine trail.
Now plans are in the works for winter trail crew work and opening the lookout, weather permitting.

BMAC & the West Rutland Food Shelf

The Officers and BoD of BMAC is pleased to announce that on behalf of BMAC, a check for $200 was presented to Tony Morgan director of the West Rutland Food Shelf, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Along with 4 bags of food.

The West Rutland food shelf helps out approximately 40 families in West Rutland and surrounding area.

Meeting Reminder for Nov.

Just to remind everyone that there will be no meeting this Sunday, due to the first weekend VT rifle season.

Also, since there will be no meeting there will be no collection for the West Rutland Food Shelf and Thanksgiving is less then 2 wk's. away. The Officers of BMAC are working on filling in this void, but we'd like to suggest that any members who could help out with nonperishable's or a donation of money/check for the Food Shelf to please contact any of the officers or by email. We can make arrangements for pickup, within a reasonable distance or tell you a drop off point.

As always the W.R. Food Shelf will appreciate all help.

Time change this weekend!

Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
Daylight Saving Time Dates
Under the new law, daylight saving time beginning and ending dates in the United States are:

2010: March 14 and November 7
2011: March 13 and November 6
2012: March 11 and November 4
2013: March 10 and November 3
2014: March 9 and November 2
2015: March 8 and November 1


Read more at Suite101: U.S. Daylight Savings Time in 2010: Clock Changes - When to Spring Forward and Fall Back http://www.suite101.com/content/us-daylight-savings-time-information-for-2010-a164685#ixzz14MHcZIwq

First Snow

First snow on Ben's Slide Sunday 10-31-10

WRASC ride Sunday Oct. 24

WRASC is Holding their End Of The Season
Ride & Potluck This Sunday Oct. 24th at the Riverside Farm/Fair Haven
Trails on the VASA Map. Ride Begins around 10 am registration from 9am
and is Free. They will be serving hotdogs, chips, and all kinds of hot
and cold drinks. Please bring a dish to share for the potluck part of
the lunch. They will have plug ins for crockpots for hot dishes. Lunch
will be served around 1pm.

V.E.S.T ATV Safety Course

A very successful VASA ATV safety course was held in Danville, VT. on Oct. 2, 2010. As of now, because of hunting seasons and holidays, VASA is postponing the courses until Spring.

Between BMAC and WRASC we have 12 signed up for the course, which is a day long classroom course, and we also have a place to hold the course, at Central VT. Motorcycles. We will send out notice after the first of the new year to refresh the list of students.

BMAC receives an award

BMAC received an award at the Last Hoorah end of season foilage ride. It was from Tony Morgan Director of the West Rutland Food Shelf.
BMAC collects non-perishables at each monthly meeting and all events/rides when held at the BMAC/IRA Trail Head Where Friends Meet!

BMAC's Last Hoorah

What a wonderful end of season Fall atv ride. BMAC officers wish to thank all BMAC members who helped put on this event. We thank all that attended, special thanks to our food vendor Dogs on the Run, and our dealers that supported this event, Outdoors in Motion, Tinmouth Mountain Motorsports and Tinmouth Floral. We wish to thank our entertainer Adam Springer and his grandparents Doug and Sandy Springer.
Last, very special thanks to all BMAC supporters that donated items and gift cards to the ride raffle. Funds from the raffle will go towards improving the trails for next year.
We held the food collection for West Rutland food shelf and with what was collected and the donated money, the food shelf has a good start into late Fall season.
BMAC has started a fund raiser for the Ira Fire Dept., monies were collected for a coffee and dessert table (Total soon). Our goal is to purchase an ATV rescue boggan for the Ira Fire Dept.
Riding season is at an end for BMAC with the exception of volunteer trail work crew for winter. Keep track of us on FaceBook, the Blog and the many small weekly papers.
Plans are already in the works for the opening season ride to celebrate the grand opening of Polaris Pass and Yamaha Gap. Also, organized atv pulls with the Ira Fire Dept.!
One of our Landowners is planning on opening spaces and facilities for RV campers just off the Trail Head in the Spring. Plus, the campground for tents on the top of Ted's MT.
It's already looking to be a great atv year to come, alot to look forward to at the BMAC Ira Trail Head, Where Friends Meet.

10-10-10

BMAC Trail Head, "Where Friends Meet"

Last Hoorah Pictures

What a great, fun day!

10-10-10

10-10-10 BMAC's Last Hoorah!

‎10-10-10...BMAC's Last Hoorah Foliage ride!
Long range weather is reporting a beautiful weekend!
Guidelines for the last BMAC ride of the season;

‎$10 to ride for the day. This enters you into a raffle for donated items.
You don't have to ride to buy a ticket. So, far 30 items donated and there will be a separate winner for each item.
Music, food, ATV dealers with demo rides all afternoon, safety seminar for children.
List of raffle items; (will update as more items are added)
ProCycle Sales & Service, Clarendon, VT.;- $50 gift card, XL- T-shirt, 2X-Hoodie
Central VT. Motorcycles, Rutland, VT-$25. gift card
Jack Johnson, Rutland, VT.-$25 gift card Sensible Shoes
Randy, Fairwoods Bowling Alley, Fair Haven, Vt.- Certificates/bowling Fairwood Lanes
Birdseye Diner, Castleton, VT.- 1 cert-Dinner for 2 plus 2 cert for Castleton Pizza and Deli (free pizza)
Outdoors In Motion, Rutland, VT- $25 gift card, RZR hoodie, helmet
Dan Turco & Sons Yamaha, Clarendon, VT- 2-$20 gift certs
Sweet Carolines, West Rutland, VT- $25 gift cert
Tinmouth MT MotorSports, Tinmouth, VT.- 2-$25 gift certs
Tinmouth Floral Designs, Tinmouth, VT.- 2-$25 gift certs
Bevie Radaker, Rutland, VT.- $25 value, custom made necklace and ear rings
Fowlers Sales & Service, Castleton, VT.-$25 gift cert
Sunrise Family Restaurant, Castleton 4 Corners, VT.-$20 gift card
Dave & Connie Brown- $25 gift card Applebees
Ray Viger-5-custom made Native American jewerly sets
Henry & Phyllis Hess- decorated cornucopia
Ponderosa Steakhouse- $20 gift card
Ted Sheloski- bottle of Green Slime
Marci Barrows-Pampered Chef garlic press

Please bring a nonperishable food or dry good item for the West Rutland Food Shelf.

Sept 27. west side is done!

New switchback on Man Mt

BMAC's 2nd Annual Rescue Training Drill

On Sept. 25 BMAC hosted their 2nd Annual Emergency Response Rescue drill at their ATV Trail Head on West Rd. in the West Rutland/Ira area. Their sister club WRASC also participated, along with emergency response departments from Castleton, Goshen, Ira and Timmouth fire depts.
The purpose of the drill was to train VASA-BMAC & WRASC atv club members and local emergency response teams to work together when responding to situations in remote off highway locations that would benefit having trained atv assistance. This training will be valuable in rescues of hikers, Mt. bikers, atvers, fishermen, hunters, campers and transporting fire department volunteers and their equipment to remote off road locations. Big thank you to the many VASA atver's that want training and participated on Sat.
With our sport this training is a valuable asset. If you can ride an atv or SxS and/or use a GPS, then you can benefit from this training even if you have a handicapp.
BMAC's 3rd Annual Drill is already being planned for early Spring 2011.
I'll be making up cd's of pictures for our EMS that participated. There are close to 300 pictures of the 3 practice drills. 117 are posted on Facebook; http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000225845929

9-25-2010

BMAC 2nd Annual Rescue Training Drill