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BEAST News Update – 8 Feb 2021

See the following link for the latest BEAST News Update. BEAST News Update 8 Feb 2021

BEAST Corporate Ride 2021 – Cancelled

Announcement: BEAST Corporate Ride 2021 – Cancelled Due to the provincial public health measures continued stay at home order, and OFSC riding directions, the BEAST cannot go ahead with plans for our event of Feb 12-14. Todays Feb 8 decision of our government to extend the stay at home public health measures in the BEAST …

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OFSC Announcement 8 Feb 2021

Todays announcement does not affect the BEAST’s two Public Health Units.(Ottawa Public Health, and Leeds, Grenville Lanark Public Health) Therefore BEAST riders are still to stay within their own Health Unit for now. More will be known on Feb 16, when our Health Units, return to the Provincial COVID-19 Response Framework(color zones). At that time …

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306 Trail Portion Closed due to Off Trail Riding

       You may have seen posts from our club and many other clubs about the OFF TRAIL RIDING problem that is overwhelming many club volunteers this year. This year, more than ever, our club is dealing with an unhappy group of landowners who want to deny access to their property for our trails …

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BEAST News Update – 01 Feb 2021

See the following link for the latest BEAST News Update. BEAST News Update 1 Feb 2021

OVRT Reminder for Sledders – 29 Jan 2021

OVRT Reminder to all sledders. Since we are all obeying the provincial rules and sledding within our own Public Health Unit, there has been a noted increase in traffic on the OVRT (BEAST 311) through the towns of Carleton Place and Almonte. Please observe the 20km/hr speed limit within the Community Safety Corridor zones (within …

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OFSC Release – 27 Jan 2021

(Barrie, ON: January 27, 2021) – With winter finally upon us and thousands of kilometres of trails now showing either Green or Yellow on the Interactive Trail Guide (ITG) for local riding, the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC) has created a new tool to assist snowmobilers….. Read full release here: https://www.ofsc.on.ca/…/ofsc-adds-public-health-unit…/

Please read – Latest Release from OFSC

Please review the latest release here: Click the following link https://www.ofsc.on.ca/…/ofsc-urges-all-snowmobilers…/

Please read post from – Upper Canada Snowmobile Region(UCSR) – OFSC District 1

Please read this post from our OFSC district – Upper Canada Snowmobile Region(UCSR) – OFSC District 1 Trails are opening up across the District. We remind riders to remain on yellow (and hopefully green) trails. Stay off Red trails as they are Not Available due to many reasons (water, unsafe, landowner direction, covid restrictions, etc). …

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Trail Packing to begin – Sunday Jan 17

The BEAST will begin packing the main trails starting Sunday Jan. 17th. We need a good cold snap to freeze up swamps and creeks still a lot of water around. Any trails that can be opened will be, as soon as possible. Please stay off the trails if they are closed, until we get them …

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