Berkshire trails

[arcticcatmatt]

Is the DCdrifters the club that does the trails in Berkshire? Or is that the tioga ridge runners?

I am trying to find out what club to join now that I will be riding around berkshire most.

I see berkshire and the trails on the 2004 map on the drifters website but the ridgerunners have no map on their site.

Any news of a new map since the one on the site is 4-5 years old? I seen trail signs going thru the berkshire rod and gun but I don't see that trail on the map.

The most detailed map I have seen yet is the GPS trail map that was released in 2007. Of course, it wasn't perfect but most to the time it was great. I am looking at this now and I see a trail thru berkshire, I just don't know who runs it. Looks like it changes hands as it crosses Rt. 38?

Boy would it be nice to get this GPS map as up to date as we could.

[emtp579 (Dan)]

Matt - the area around where you live is divided between Whitney point, Tioga, Candor, and DC Drifters. The railroad tracks are the divider it seems. Up your road looks like DC Drifters, across the road on the C2 looks like Whitney point, just south of that is Tioga.

I joined Tioga last year, but switched to Whitney Point since all of the riding I did was out of Dorchester park down here.

You live at the 4 corners!

[tim]

Matt,

Tioga trails end at the top of the hill east of Berkshire, about 1/2 mile north of E. Berkshire Hill Rd. Whitney Point grooms from there east to Center Lisle and beyond. Dryden is responsible for the trail down the hill into Berkshire, and the trail from there north to Slaterville. The Dryden trail was rerouted last year, starting at the rr tracks, to avoid running through town and across sidewalks and lawns- there were obviously problems with the old trail. The new trail is probably not on any maps yet - it shoots up the ridge west of Rt 38, then cuts over to Poor Shots, where it connects to the old trail again near West Creek Road.

Tim

[arcticcatmatt]

^ Thanks for the reply. Can we fudge this on a map some how?

I went up to the berkshire rod and gun a few days ago and the trail I see clearly goes thru there also.

Yeah thru town is bad. I heard about that from the neighbors. Sledders would come within feet of bedroom windows at 2 am.

I have snow fence to put up along my paved driveway just in case.

[tim]

Matt - yep, thats the trail. It goes thru the Rod and Gun club, then keeps going north, parallel to the road for about another mile or so before turning west toward Poor Shots.

Tim

[arcticcatmatt]

^ I/we have to get this stuff on a map of some sort. I will GPS them when they open. I need to learn my new local trails

Looks like I can leave my driveway to the trail. I live on Jewett Hill Road.

[sled05]

Hello arcticcatmat, haven't spoke to you since last year. I just spoke to a friend today up at my camp on Matson rd. in Richford. He said there is 18" of snow up there. I'll have to trailer my sled to your house or you to mine once the season begins. How was your first year of home ownership. I bought a new Yamaha Grizzly 700 w/ps back in July, man that was a big jump from my Outy 400. Oh I forgot, this is a snowmobile message board lol. Hope to finally meet you

[arcticcatmatt]

Party up on Matson Road!! Haha

Home ownership is OK. Expensive and my work isn't doing to hot (Buy american cars people!)

You can leave my house and get right on the sled trails. Should be a blast!

[sled05]

Is there any snow and do you think there will be enough for opening day

[emtp579 (Dan)]

We have pretty much no snow around here right now except a little on the very high elevations.