Snowmobiling in our region will be more efficient this winter, because of some trail work being done with provincial money.
Gilbert Fortin is president and governor of the Timiskaming-Abitibi Trail Association. It represents clubs from the Tri-Towns to Foleyet, including Iroquois Falls and Timmins.
He says re-routing the Top C trail near Gogama will bypass some rocky terrain, allowing the season to open earlier and stay open later. Fortin says that will benefit the whole north, providing a route in Dubreuilville, Hornepayne, Kap and Val Rita.
“The average snowmobiler just doesn’t do only five or six kilometres,” he observes. “They’ll do five, six, seven-hundred kilometres in one day, easily.”
The money is part of $800,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.
Fortin says work like this is year-round. And he takes the opportunity to remind you to get your trail permit early, and stick to the trails all winter.
“We have agreement with landowners and we have to respect aht and if we start trespassing, then we start losing trails.”