Rib Knights Snowmobile Club
P.O. Box 315 Wausau, WI 54401
United We Trail, Divided We Fail
United We Trail, Divided We Fail
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Last update: April 12, 2008
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2007/08 Executive Officers
President: Joe Bauer
Vice Pres: Rick Toldness
Secretary: Lori Schutte
Treasurer: Skip Melohn
Board Members
Terms of 2008-10
Charlie Bauer
Dean Kannenberg
Andy Michlig
Terms of 2007-09
Larry Guralski
Tim Resch
Jeff Toldness
Matt Toldness
Committee Chair
Membership/Events: Cathy Toldness
QUICK HITS 2007/08
Work Date Saturday, April 19th: Meet at club shed 8:30. Lunch afterwards for all workers At Shang Garden around 12 or 1:00.
*WEDNESDAY May 14 : (Note the change of days) Annual Picnic & pseudo meeting @ Schmidts Bar and Grill Hwy A. Steaks on the indoor grill. Eat outside if weather permits. Last of the season.
*Summer Events : TBD.
*Sept 9 : Meeting @ Treus Tic Toc, 7pm lunch
*Thanks for making this site one of the top snowmobile sites for hits in the state. Your comments, photos, trail reviews make the difference. Not even the local TV or newspaper reports openings/closures faster.
Revised look next year (as you have come to expect), with some new cool ideas.
ALERTS & NOTIFICATIONS
*March 31 @ midnight: All Wisconsintrails closed.
WEATHER & CONDITIONS
4/2008- Think spring, baseball, motorcycling and some fishing or water skiing/tubing.
NEWS
* Watch for 55mph dusk to dawn speed limit again.
* Watch for 88 decibel sound testing again.
* AWSC Fall 2008 Conference in Stevens Point Oct. 24-26, 2008.
*The AWSC 2008Annual State Convention- right here in Wausau! in 2011.
Located in Central Wisconsin, where Hwy's 51/39 & 29 meet
Last updated: April 12, 2008
36th
Anniversary
Year
Photos of the Month
Kurt (not Brandon) and his Uncle Tim hit the trails in Portage county on a 250 mile ride! Beautiful woods and open trails with lots of drifted areas to provide the best of winter riding. Thumbnails include Brandon ready to groom the trails at the Nine Mile Forest Unit Trails.
RIDER REVIEWS
Snowmobile reports welcome- 2007/08
3/1-2/08: Took the new 2007 F5 on its maiden ride. What a sled. 250 miles in 2 days, with my 3 healing fractured ribs, all Marathon County trails, excellent riding everywhere (with few exceptions.)
2/17/08: County Wide Ride from Halder town hall, blizzard conditions, 5-8 inches of snow in the area. Rode the trails near Eau Pleine and Meade and Rozelville. Good thing we had a capable guide who knew the trails,often tough to see anything ahead.
2/2/08: What club rides have you been on boast a 180 mile day. That's from our own Rib Mountain, up to the Tomahawk/Harrison Hills area (some stopped here for the overnight), looping around to Gleason and back home via a last stop at Schmidt's. Trails were smooth nearly all day (thankfully) and despite some minor issues with icy corners a memorable ride!
Rider ages ranged from 10 to nearly 50 and found a 1 to 1 mixture of male to female. Hopefully there will be another Saturday ride soon to look forward to.
1/27/08: 100 miles, took my 12 and 14yo nephews on their first 100 mile ride . from Irma to Willow Flowage and back. Awesome trails.
The Whitehouse Inn, Mohawk, MI, can show you a good time in the Michigan
SEND your feedback on Harrison Hills, Tomahawk, Rhinelander, Minocqua and Eagle River trails.
Photos of the Month
Speed
Limit
55
Dusk
to Dawn
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Does your year top this one?
Here's my HARD LUCK story for 2007/08 season:
1. Mid Dec: "two inches" of water in the carborators. Got to the gas station but not back home. Dean Kannenburg tows me to the nearest parking lot with the 1987 Ski Doo Alpine.
2. UP Michigan, fellow rider puts his 600 REV in waist high water, it's dark, I give him my sled to avoid hypothermia. Slides and bearings melt down on his 40 mile trip on roads for help and warmth
3. Let my nephews use my 440 and 340 for free, they take out in minus 15 wind chill, get stranded, break spark plug cord. While holding cord to plug I am able to fire up and drive onto trailor- into the back tailgate of my Explorer.
4. 2/2/ Family Club Outing, roll my sled when ski catches ice on corner at 10AM, break 3 ribs, finish the 180 mile ride, next day spasms send me to my knees...
5. 2/17 County Wide Ride, great day, 125 miles, blizzard, lose my $250 digital camera on the way home...
6. 2/20 Short ride, pause a south Nine Mile parking lot, sled dies- literally. Terminal case of engine death. The big one. Totalled.
You think someone is trying to tell me something this year?
Yep- I'm going to buy me a new sled!
email me your hard luck year.
Kurt
& his Ski Doo
Brandon and his tractor
