Polio plus Rotary International program and Maine.
The World wide efforts to eradicate polio continue. The polio plus push to rid the planet of the crippling disease started in 1985.
In the US, in 1975, almost 6,000 cases of paralyzing polio were reported. By 1994, the US was the first world country to report no new cases of polio.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are currently the only two countries with cases of wild type 1 polio.
In 1952, polio in the US peaked at over 20,000 cases. Hospital wards in this country were full of respirators to help paralyzed people’s breathing. Back in the 1980’s my local Houlton Maine Rotary club stepped up donations to polio plus.
This past week, the Temple Cinema movie theatre splashed a special free showing of the movie “Breathe” on the silver screen.
Free popcorn, soda and with a polio plus donation, movie goers also received a purple pinkie roll in the ink.
All to increase awareness. To show others you care about the polio plus program. and increase awareness.
Do you know anyone in Maine affected by the polio virus? Our past polio chairman felt strongly about polio plus because his brother in law contracted it. More to explore on ending polio.
Are we all clear for polio outbreak cases in the US?
Sadly No. In 2022 in New York’s Rockland County an unvaccinated man contracted the paralyzing polio virus infection. Children under 5 years of age one of polio’s biggest targets. Vaccination is the best way to protect again contracting polio.
Frequent handwashing, especially after bathroom visits and after changing diapers is key too. Children receive does of the polio vaccine by mouth.
More on ending polio and how you can help donate and become better informed about the paralyzing disease.
End Polio, Rotary Polio Plus Prevention Education
What are other countries doing to increase polio plus awareness? Lots. The link.
Are you member of your local Rotary club? I know the clubs in my Rotary district do an awfully lot of good locally, Worldwide too. When I look around the local Northern Maine area I can see so many things that would never have happened without Rotarians joining forces to get it down collectively. One person can do a lot but many people can get even more down working together.
It’s not the Maine potato farmer or organic grower making a killing. Not just inflation. All the middle men is where the extra grocery food costs come into play. Your household family food budget. There is no way anyone pushing the wire cart with the one squeaky wheel in their local Piggly Wiggly has not noticed. Grocery store checkout sticker shock. Higher prices and getting less for more. Not the other way around.
When you live in a built up city landscape, you are beat. No matter which market the wholesale food supplier is pulling from in the country, the cost is higher on both ends. Wholesale to retail to the consumer is concerning. And not just the high cost of food but what you are actually buying.
Where did it come from, what was it sprayed with and food safety.
Lots to consider before preparing a meal to put on your family supper table.
All Ages Picked Maine Potatoes In The Farm Field.
When you are raised in rural Maine, frugal simple meals are the norm.
Easy does it applies. But meat and potatoes simple does not mean the taste needs to be forgotten. The way the food is put together with love and attention and a creative spirit and the seasoning can all transform the simplest of meals. Welcome to the Maine country kitchen. Here’s an apron to tie on.
Fresh produce out of your Maine garden or farm field to can, preserve and stored to be drawn from your root cellar or food pantry.
That is the corner stone of wholesome, healthy and tasty. But what if you have no garden, do not have local farm producers to buy your home grown food to place on the family table? Then eating right when it’s from a grocery store outlet is going to be even more expensive these days.
This image from potato picking in Northern Maine over the weekend.
Picking Maine Potatoes, Using Local Kids To Hand Pick The Spud Crop!
Potato harvesters on Maine farms leave a lot of spuds behind.
I grew up and own the Maine potato farm where my youth was spent. Potato harvesters cover a lot of acreage in a short period of time. But they leave a lot of spuds behind. All the wind rowers and mechanical handling can also ding or dent the delicate skin of a Maine potato. Some potato varieties more susceptible to abrasion than others and tender skinned.
Hand picked potato field workers do the best job leaving nothing behind on the Maine farm.
Maine Potato Farm Field Pickers Do Better Job Than Mechanical Harvesters!
Less handling or bruising or scrapes! It is all about The Maine potato farm fields that are harvest mean let’s go gleaning!
More on that a little later in this blog post. First things first. Back to high food costs and trips in and out of the automatic doors at your local Maine grocery. Convenience items, time saving but they have always been expensive.
Reaching for that five pound lasagna pan in the cooler case does not come cheap. Loaded with sodium but voila, quick and easy. Once warmed up, dinner is served.
So Many Varieties Of Maine Potatoes. Like Pinto Golds Washed, Sliced Up And Ready To Put Into The Meal Plan.
Time.
It seems regardless of grocery store prices high low or in the middle, you have to plan your week’s meals. Searching for simple, delicious, affordable recipes starts with your family members. My mom had lots of cookbooks. Some of the best ones in print were from church groups where many cooks submit their collective piece de resistance.
Early Maine Farm Life At The Homestead, Surrounded With All The Land. Pot Luck Suppers At The Grange Hall.
Enjoying the home cooked meals that you had a hand in creating helps the Maine household meal time creativity.
This blogger does live in Maine and has access to farm to table locally grown produce, Locals can glean farm fields and harvest the bounty of what is left by potato harvesters.
Maine Potato Farm Field Workers Hard At It! Working Around The Weather.
On a Maine farm I own Russian banana, French fingerlings, amarosa, all blue and more potato varieties are free for the taking.
Russian Banana, French Fingerlings, Other Potato Varieties Grown On The Maine Farm!
It’s help yourself but be aware as temperatures dip and exposure to the sun will only lessen the quality of your farm field gleaning.
Being out in the fall air surrounded by tree leaf explosion of colors only adds to the joy of farm vegetable gleaning. Stay tuned because red and golden beets, turnips and rutabaga are next up. Looking up recipes on all the ways to create tasty low cost fresh not heated up frozen meals. Maine potato picking … wonderful experience, totally awesome taste, a lesson in working outdoors doing manual labor.
High grocery store prices have stirred a desire to find healthy alternatives and people are discovering the joy of cooking in Maine.
Kids Learn Work Ethic In The Maine Potato Field! On Your Knees Or Bent Over Standing Up. This Is An Entry Level Job!
Field gleaning these organic vegetables creates a small window of opportunity to help yourself.
Whatever you do glean is served up hot and ready fresh for the family table. But canning, preserving, freezing for future meals has to happen to extend the good tasting food budget savings. No grocery October is practiced by many in Maine agriculture regions. Those lucky enough to live near farms take a break from the automatic doors and Muzak up and down the store aisles.
Instead, gleaning fields, collecting apples, hunting for game. Pheasant, deer, black bear, moose gets to play along in the grocery cost meal planning savings. Making cider, apple sauce, pies and milling grain to weave into baked goods. It’s all around you in rural Maine. And those lucky enough to live close to the sea, hoist up other local, close to home meal time savings.
Fish, clams, mussels, lobster all get to take a turn being the star of the Maine family meal table.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
So ho hum about what gets served at your house at meal time?
Want to ease away from $200 plus weekly grocery store bills? Local farm to table in Maine locations offers many advantages. Plus you know what you are eating, where it came from and the peace of mind that no chemicals were used.
Where I live, there is a local dairy too, a vibrant farmers market to shop. We Mainers tackle the high cost of fossil fuels by heading to the woodlot. Heating our homes with hardwood cords of fuel is good exercise. Are these options for simpler living available where you live?
Used to be go in three weeks early. Then three weeks off from school to pick Maine potatoes.
Everyone took part in the Maine potato harvest whether you grew up on a family farm or not. The smallest child just as important as the oldest in the potato picking fall harvest tradition. Getting up early, going to bed early and wearing layers of clothes. Because there might have been a frost this morning. But by noon time, stripped to your t-shirt and the sun hot overhead as you pick baskets of potatoes. To pour into the cedar or plywood barrels.
Maine Youth Working The Maine Potato Harvest. Did Not Hurt Their Work Ethic!
Four baskets per barrel that weigh 165 pounds.
The pickers take a section, a length of potato field that is your job to keep picked up as the digger pulled by a farm tractor squeaks by row by row. You don’t want to be “caught up” and waiting for the digger to unearth more spuds. But you are out here to make some money and stay productive. The trick is to take a section from here to there that you can complete just as the digger makes another pass.
Getting behind, row by row happens in the Maine potato farm field.
Too big a section, or ran out of barrels to fill to stay caught up. No one leaves the field until everyone is picked up, all the potato sections in the field are caught up and ready for the next day.
No one will be left in the field when it’s pitch black still picking.
No one can head for home until every potato picker is caught up. Here’s a video of what happens on the other end… when the potatoes leave the Maine farm field and get deposited in the potato house.
Your lunch prepared in the early morning with lots of energy snacks.
Fresh air, hard physical labor as the leaves change color to red, orange, yellow, brown and a million shades of green. Food takes extra good. Hunger improves the taste. When you do run out of barrels and as you slowly get behind, that’s the time to pivot. To make good use of your time.
Head to the woods to go to the bathroom. Time to have an early or late lunch. Or pick the potato tops off your section so when you do get barrels, you can fill those baskets quicker.
Your full barrel of potatoes marked with a numbered ticket.
Maine Potato Picking. Passing On The Tradition Of Filling Up Potato Barrels.
To show this is my barrel, I earned the money for this one. A Maine potato farm truck with flat staked body on the back cruises the field picking up full barrels. Taking full trucks of 50 or more barrels to the potato storage facility.
Watch the video on Maine potato picking in Sherman.
Work ethic, responsibility to show up, to work around the weather that you can not control. Earning the money to buy school clothes, to save for college, to buy something you really want that Mom and Dad encourage you to go for it. Work hard, save and don’t let the money sift through your fingers. And take better care of whatever you do buy.
Years ago, when you moved out of state, and raised your hand when asked “who is from Maine?”
There is healthy discrimination. The good kind where you hail from Maine, picking potatoes as a kid growing up in rural areas of the state. You are hired because you knew how to work, like to do a good job without complaining. You show up and pitch in, are dependable. Pride in your labor and enjoyment from the outdoor work in the potato field all absorb in your entry level job learning curve.
No matter how old or young, everyone picked in the potato field.
All were needed to get the crop out and into potato house storage. To load up and ship down the road to out of state markets. Skills were learned in the potato field and lazy was not one of them. Work hard, pick them clean and don’t miss any.
The more you pick, the more you make and it becomes a field competition.
My personal best was 88 barrels and was paid 25 cents for each with my ticket slid in the crack on the top.
Those barrels in every other row for the truck to hoist and deliver to the dark potato bin miles away.
My four kids all picked potatoes and it was by far the best experience any of them ever had.
Your first job, your development of work ethic and gotta have a system out in the field was invaluable. My kids learned you don’t buy it if it is not worth it.
They know how hard a dollar is to earn and make sure to get value or wait. Keeping looking until you find some worth four, six or more barrels of potatoes that took to earn it.
Local Maine apples are ripe, ready and all they need is you to pick them.
Beat the high cost of Maine grocery store food items!
Make into apple cider that is freshly squeezed. Instead of reaching for a quart of orange juice from concentrate for $7.99. Make the effort. The fruits of your labor can be fun and tasty and wholesome.
Switch it up from OJ to Johnny Appleseed nutritious Maine wild fruit of all kinds when you are lucky enough to live, work, play in Maine.
Flowers On Maine Farms. Some Tended, Many Come Up On Their Own.
I grew up on a Maine farm and the flowers around the 7 buildings pop up like clockwork.
My Dad orchestrated the field planting. My Mom wrangled the flower beds around the farmstead.
Years ago, bought the same family farm in Maine from my three older brothers. The rich fertile Maine farm dirt getss tilled, planted and cultivated tended with crops of organic produce of all kinds. There are sheep in the fenced pasture behind the second storage barn on the Maine farm. The chicken house had egg laying operations producing way way more than any family could possible consume.
You have to protect the chickens and ducks from predators like a fox. The fox has a family that likes chicken or duck dinners.
Mom and Dad are gone and relieved from the Maine family farm chores.
The farm field fields need yearly managing by others but Mom’s flower beds pop up right on schedule each year. While mowing the large farm lawns one early evening this past week, I noticed Mom’s and Mother Nature’s tag team handiwork.
This is pair of images of one flower bed closer to the road at the set of farm buildings that are set back off US RT 2, Houlton Maine.
Flowers On A Maine Farm Pop Up On Auto Pilot, On Their Own. See The Old Hand Pump Water Well Painted White?Careful Mowing Grass Around The Maine Farm Flower Beds! My Mom On Her Knees Planting And Tending Those Beds Is A Fond Memory.
The simple, fragile beauty of flowers hit me as I carefully mowed around the many Maine farm beds.
Mom had many and enjoyed the beauty the Maine farm flower beds produced. I miss and appreciate my Mom in many ways but realize the flowers returning year after year is a comfort reminder of her handiwork. I can see her being industrious and on her needs planting, weeding, tending the farm flower beds. Looking back, knowing the hectic schedule of farming in Maine year round, I wonder how she made time for her flower beds.
On her knees, digging and transplanting in the Maine farm dirt.
That is one recurring strong memory of many about my hardworking and loving Mom. Both Mom and Dad grew up on Maine farms and instilled in all four boys the love and beauty of the soil’s bounty.
Get On Your Knees, Smell The Flowers, Digging In The Dirt. My Flower Bed At Drews Lake Reminds Me Of My Mom.
Do you have a garden?
How green is your thumb? Would you like to own a Maine farm? A small scale truck garden with a roadside stand to peddle the produce is a wonderful thing. Locally sourced, farm to table home grown produce and a relationship with your local grower is key to good health. Yours and everyone in the community that trades with you.
At the local Maine farmer’s market, lots of your “sales” are bartering this for that with other local community agriculture vendors.
Where your food came from, what it was not sprayed with this growing seasons.
How the local Maine foodstuffs were raised from seed to final harvest to served up on your family meal time table.
Family Farm Owned, Enjoyed By Me In Maine Author Andrew Mooers. Potatoes, Grains, Strawberries, Roadside Stand Veggies, Even Sugar Beets Grown.
When you reduce it all down, what you eat and in what quantities matters most to your health right?
How your food is prepared. It all determines your focus on you and your family’s personal health. Too much salt, sugar, fat. Not good. Easy does it. I am glad I was raised on a family farm in Maine and my four children learned valuable lessons from the raised around the career / lifestyle choice.
Watch another farmer’s market in Maine video for inspiration.
Please support local Maine agriculture.
Consider scratching, tilling, planting, tending, fertilizing, watering and harvesting local produce on a Maine farm. Even wild flowers like lupine grace the Earth on the Maine landscape.
Maine Wildflowers. The Natural Beauty Of What’s Around Us Enjoyed Daily!
Watch a video of a small Maine farm for sale in Aroostook County.
Off to bush hog the farm pasture sections around the crop fields and along the roadways that define the boundaries.
The practice around the 4th of July is something my Dad would appreciate me doing to carry on the tradition. Keeping the Maine farm ship shape and presentable. Pride in your farm fields, keeping buildings in top repair. But also fragile, fragrant flowers on the Maine farm. It’s all part of the managing a farm property in Maine.
It’s spring, the Maine rivers are swollen, bloated with fast moving water caused by melting winter snow. Might as well dig out the blue, green, natural wood look canoe or whatever color water ride. Time in Maine to head to the nearest canoe and kayak river race on the circuit. Looking for canoe river races in Maine schedule?
Saturday’s race in Aroostook County’s oldest town, Houlton ME had 97 participants, 52 boats. Oh and two paddle boards.. see the tether hooking the board to the paddler so the two stay together in the ice cold fast moving Maine river water?
Been On Your Feet All Day? Er I Mean Through Maine River Rapids, Twists And Turns? River Race Paddlers, 2 In The Meduxnekeag River Race.
Ricker College started the Meduxnekeag River Race. And eventually after the college closed, the Houlton Rotary Club took over the orchestration. Food booths at the end that was at the covered bridge on the Framingham Road in Littleton Maine.
Higher faster water on a Maine river means faster times, maybe an canoe upset into the cold clear water. The mix of adrenaline fear and excitement make another river race under your belt a real natural high. Great exercise, everyone in the small Maine town or village gets out to take part. It’s spring, the rip off another month on the kitchen calendar. Ever paddled across a Maine lake or took the wild river Maine whitewater rafting?
Hang On, Keep Paddling. Paddling Harder, Strong. Then HOLD! Hold On To The Short Rope. Put Your Paddles Straight Out!
Family river race canoes with 2two kids, four racers total in them.
Longer Canoes, Like River Race Minivans. You See All Types, Ages And Reasons To Hit The River Race In Maine Circuit.
Gramp is up front leading the river race canoe strokes.
Follow his lead kids. Dad did the same Maine river race circuit when he was a little shaver. Single canoes or kayakers paddling for all they are worth. Some river race entries are taking their time. Others are on a mission and trying to win the ribbon or trophy or wooden mini paddle.
It’s all good and lots of common reasons to hit the fast moving, higher level river water.
Water in Maine, the recreational kind comes in many forms. Tubing on a Maine lake behind a jet ski or motor boat. A pontoon boat, party barge slowly plying the Maine lake. A sailboat out in the Atlantic Ocean or tacking across a lake or pond.
There is something about looking at, being on or in the water in Maine.
Depending on the season, how you enjoy the Maine water best revolves around temperatures and layers of clothing needed. But year long, everyday living in Maine. We are outdoors getting some fresh air, moving around and enjoying the four seasons of outdoor Maine.
Looking For The Best Time Or Slow Down. Let The River Do The Driving Down The Maine River. No Reason To Kill Ourselves.
Things to do for fun in Maine.
Put down canoe river races in Maine as one more possible outdoor recreational option up here in the state bordering Canada on two three. Reach out and share your adventures on the Maine river and send along images or video links if you have them!
Maine river races, they are in full swing and why not try to paddle down a few Maine rivers and whether you make it a race or pleasure cruise, it’s something you will never regret.
June 24th, 2023 is the race date for the 27th running of the soap box derby race in Houlton ME. Today, if you want to derby race in Maine, “Derby Hill” in Houlton ME is the one state site for gravity racing. Once upon a time, there were five local derby racing site locals in Maine. The Northern Maine soap box derby built a two lane racing hill.
I think the big reason Houlton ME survived the one by one closure of the other four local Maine soap box derby programs.
The Road To Race In Akron Ohio’s All America Downhill Event. First You Have To Win A Local.
The Soap Box Derby youth car racing program began back in 1933. World Championship finals are held each July at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.
Un-powered cars bit from a kit compete using only gravity for fuel. Kids between 7 to 20 years of age are eligible to race in the All American soap box derby program.
Getting a car sponsor or buying a derby car to assemble is part of the education.
Workers to set up a hill, tear it down after a derby race is one of the biggest cost in manpower and logistics. Someone needs to be on the top of the hill to load cars into the gates. To launch each heat from “Topside”.
Other individuals at the bottom of the race course to help pull cotter pins, rotate wheels, load cars on trailers to head back to the top of the hill.
To keep racers with their cars for quick pairing.
So the day is no longer than it has to be to determine your winners in each division.
So we can move on to have the big soap box derby party and lots to eat. While watching the awards presentation after all the fun winds up in this year’s local Maine soap box derby race.
Timing the lane heats to determine who advances up the soap box derby racing brackets.
Lots of jobs for volunteers to fill year after year. Weather is always an unknown but heck, we live in Maine. Get lots of different types of weather to work around all year long.
Our Houlton Maine derby racing program trains drivers and their support teams to expect blistering hot, pouring rain, maybe even snow and gusty wind conditions on the track.
If you live in Maine, if you want to sponsor a soap box derby car, visit this link for the costs involved buying a stock racer. For larger, older racers, this is the link for buying a super stock derby car.
All Colors, Styles Of Graphics Make Each Soap Box Derby Car Unique Like Their Drivers.
There is a master division to keep the interest of the oldest derby racers.
I helped one of my four kids who all soap box derby raced and can attest from experience. It takes way more than 30 hours to build a masters kit car. Here’s the link to the newest version to buy a soap box derby master kit car.
We Have A Green Light On Derby Hill! Heat 109, Drivers Ready..
There are lots of existing soap box derby cars around the state of Maine.
You see them for free and wearing layers of thick dust and rust from laying around the back or up over head a Maine garage.
Sometimes you see them in sell swap trade guides. A Maine stock or super stock soap box derby car will be mingled in among the list of for sale item bargains. Most seem to be free to a good home.
The only problem with old derby race cars is having to update floor boards, making sure the axles or other parts are not outdated.
There is time, expense, dedication and a lot of gravity aerodynamic science that goes into building or maintaining a soap box derby car.
Kids grow up and learn to drive real cars out into the big wild World. But they never forget what an allen wrench is for or an lock washer. How to adjust weights, tighten a steering cable or change a brake pad.
The derby race cars that impress me the most are not the ones where one sponsor or someone’s parent bought the kit out of pocket.
But rather the derby race cars passed down with many sponsors each contributing the money to buy them, splitting the cost of paint, updates, helmets, new brake pads, graphics, etc.
Rather than read read read, let’s watch a couple Maine soap box derby race program videos.
It’s all downhill, gravity racing where weight, alignment is your “engine” with the trick to get from top to bottom quicker than the other lane driver.
The Houlton Maine local derby race was the largest five years in a row. It takes 66 volunteers, around 200 derby race car drivers. Lots of car sponsors, program advertisers to pull off that kind of accomplishment! Kids are king and queen and the whole village raises the youngsters in rural small town Maine! That’s why year after year, Maine soap box derby has kept rolling in “The County”, in “Vacationland”.
Maine Tourism, snowmobile ITS trails and club house locations. Maine is Vacationland.
Not just for summer coastal vacations, fall hunting trips or spring river paddling outings. Maine winter tourism is all about snowmobile ITS trails, downhill and crossing country skiing, snowshoeing, pond hockey and ice fishing.
This Maine blog post concentrates on snowmobile ITS trails and clubhouse locations.
For one link to hook you up with snowmobile trails around Maine and far beyond, visit this link. It is one neat, interactive GPS to move you in and out of regions with groomed trails and active snowmobile clubhouses.
When I was a little shaver and tinkering on a 1966 Sno Jet, there were not trail system maps to study.
No groomed snowmobile trails and you made your own. The snow machines were heavy, lacking suspension systems. Narrow skis helped you get between a pair of woodlot trees and crossing rivers, you waited for many inches of frozen ice to create the natural bridge. My Uncle Carl Hagan sold Sno Jets, another Uncle Cedric was a Polaris dealer.
Blue Sno Jet With A German Made Hirth Motor, Around 13 Horsepower.
The Polaris Apollo snowmobile 440 power plant was a step up from the Sno-Jet’s 13 horse power motor.
The next machine as an adult was a 1989 Polaris 650 three cylinder water cooled snowmobile. Stuck with the Polaris line with a snow checked 1993 Storm 750 three cylinder power plant.
As new snow sleds were purchased for outdoor winter fun, trail system ITS maps showed up all over the place in Maine.
Try out the trail riding in the Shin Pond area. Buzzing around the North entrance of the Baxter state park.
Snowmobile up into Oxbow, Masardis and enjoy the two way trail system around the Madawaska and Fort Kent area of Aroostook County.
The people you meet and sights you see along the winter snowmobile trails in Maine are unforgettable. You may think you know Maine but what season do you spend the most time in the state? The change of season makes all the difference in the vacation experience or living here full time with re-visits to favorite haunts.
Seeing Maine On A Snow Sled, Snowmobile Means Getting Places You Can Not By Car.
If you are thinking of snowmobiling in Maine, it is always wise to call ahead first.
You can do a lot online and checking the weather for regions of Maine is not hard with the Internet. But Maine weather changes fast and snowmobile trails rely on temperatures, snow fall amount and careful round the clock grooming. Join a snow sled club in Maine, take part in the statewide and local raffles, fund raising events.
Maine tourism in the winter.
Money raised supports keeping the trail groomers online, repairing or replacement of bridges and new and old trail maintenance.
Maine Snowmobiles, Snow Sleds Way More Complicated. No Boogie Wheels, Better Suspensions, Four Cycle Less Gas Guzzling. Grew Up With Sno Jets.
Snowmobiling in Maine helps the local community economy during a traditionally slower time of the year.
Local sporting lodges can expand their market for vacationers by pairing up with local Maine snowmobile clubs.
Some Maine snow sled clubs even have free memberships. Offering on the house membership for next year if you put in 25 hours of public service work on the trails, bridges, signage or whatever is needed to improve the sledding experience.
The Maine winter snowfall is iffy and the state is large and expansive.
Anytime you depend on the weather for anything in Maine. the only thing to plan on is change. Watch a news report video on Maine winter snowmobiling.
If you have never snowmobiled, you have no idea of what you are missing. Parked on top of a Maine mountain top or hillside trail with one expansive view in your lap. Or listening to the sound of roaring river water on a waterfront side trail is peaceful, private and very special.
You can get to places on a snowmobile in Maine that you would never see otherwise riding a machine.
Get off the couch. Dress warm and head outdoors up in Maine. The wildlife you see while snow sledding in Maine is an unique experience too. You are in their home and stay on the trail. Ease into the corners and back off the throttle crossing wood’s roads. Active logging operations mean keep your eyes peeled for hazards ahead.
Hearty Lunch, All Fueled Snowmobilers And The Trail Riders. Exploring Northern Maine.
Local snowmobile clubhouses can tell your about the condition of trails because they run the groomers day and night to give the best ride.
Private land owners in Maine that share their property with snow sledders deserve thanks and respect.
Property owners are a major part of the partnership that makes for more miles of exciting snowmobile trail riding around the state of Maine. Again, join a club or two because each sledder member helps make the duties of a Maine snowmobile club lighter to carry.
Most Maine snowmobile clubs have a Facebook and some a website to help you feel connected when not enjoying the Maine snowmobile trails.
The Maine Snowmobile Association has five regions and becoming a MSA member means you get club reports and more.
Every licensed Maine snowmobiler gets a copy of the Maine Snowmobilier, a publication of the Maine Snowmobile Association.
I grew up in a time of 50 flavors of snow sleds. You worked on your bogie wheel suspension snow machine long into the night.
The expression “tinker for two hours to ride for one” was so true in the early days of snowmobiling in Maine before complex grids of ITS trails came into play.
Want To Rent A Snowmobile Up In Maine? NOEC Has Them For Hitting The Groomed Trails.
Consider renting if you don’t own a snowmobile and taking to the trails this winter up in Maine. Winters are not long and riding to a place to eat, to a club house breakfast or supper is a scenic diversion. We don’t stay cooped up inside living in Maine. We are outdoor everyday of the year and loving it!
