Encore

Last night’s Journal made it sound like that was pretty much it; but I forgot a whole group of people that give us permission to ski freely across their property. Without these folks (most of whom are not skiers) the Montreal Ski Trails would simply not exist. Uller would permanently stop at the Hoyt Rd East terminus. No tracks to Pence.

We, as the Rangers respect our landowners. There are no trail ops the weeks leading up to and including deer season. We take down signs that don’t need to be on their property after winter. If they sell some timber, we ski around them for a while. What they say goes on their land.

I don’t want to put full names out there, but I can’t just say that there are people out there who own the land we ski on. I’ve got to mention Brian and Bess, Gerry, Grubby and Moon, Ross, Town of Pence, City of Montreal, Joe, another Joe, Thomas, Dan and Harold and Cathy (where we need to re-route the trail a little to better screen their hot tub).

From what I hear from them, even if they don’t ski, they’re wonderfully pleased when they see us skiing or snowshoeing by, enjoying their winter woods.

Could we ask for better neighbors? I don’t think better neighbors exist.

Thanks to all of them. It’s not just Rangers out there. Ski Freely (with permission). Z