Behind the Scenes

Congratulations to all clubs celebrating significant milestones as members of the OFSC. 2025 Club Years Of Service Recipients

When will trails be ready to ride? We’re glad you asked! In the What It Takes we provide an overview on steps needed to achieve the many trail ready criteria. Please be patient as snowmobile clubs across the province need more frozen ground and a lot more snow. You can help by staying off Red trails, […]

Congratulations to all clubs celebrating significant milestones as members of the OFSC. 2024 Club Years Of Service Recipients Celebrating 55 years:  Havelock and District Snowmobile Club   Celebrating 50 years:  Bonsecour Track and Trail Snowmobile Club Chesley and District Easy Riders Georgina Trail Riders Snowmobile Club Keetna Snowmobile and Recreation Club Port Perry Snowmobile Club […]

Today’s OFSC Operates Provincially in 3 Tiers As its name indicates, The Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs works on behalf of its member organizations. As everything in today’s society has become increasingly complex, organized snowmobiling has adapted. Over the years, member snowmobile clubs have approved organizational changes into three tiers of operations to deliver an […]

As a snowmobiler, why should you read this article? Because it’s all too easy to take the OFSC Prescribed Snowmobile Trail system for granted. These recreational trails seem to appear by magic every winter, but it doesn’t just happen by chance. So we hope that this look at what really goes on behind the scenes […]

Congratulations to all clubs celebrating significant milestones as members of the OFSC. 2023 Club Years Of Service Recipients Celebrating 50 years:  Barrie Snowmobile Club Blind River Sno-Riders Snowmobile Club Blue Mountain Snowdrifters Bruce Mines Sno-Glyders Snowmobile Club Elliot Lake Snowbirds Snowmobile Club Hanover Snowmobile Club Hillsburgh Snow Roamers Iron Bridge Nighthawks Snowmobile Club Prince Edward […]

This year’s Golf Tournament was held at Deerhurst Resort’s beautiful Highlands Golf Course in support of OFSC volunteer and landowners. Despite the downpour, which was good for the greens but not so much for the golfers, everyone a great job keeping their spirits high. Maybe it was the prizes our CEO handed out during an […]

The OFSC is proud to partner with the Ontario Provincial Police to combat trespassing and ensure the safety on our trail network. In early May CEO Ryan Eickmeier and Stakeholder Relations Director Andrew Walasek welcomed Staff Sergeant Annie Gagnon and Sergeant Paul Beaton to Barrie to review year-end data from the 2022/23 snowmobile season.

  The OFSC provincial fleet consists of two major kinds of large industrial equipment: purpose built machines and tractor conversions. Some clubs also use smaller drags, towed by utility sleds for early season packing of wet areas and for maintaining tighter local trails and portages. Tractor conversions are essentially farm tractors converted from wheels to […]

On February 24, the OFSC Facebook page posted an item entitled “Grooming Equipment 101”, which also appeared in our Feb 23 newsletter. It attracted a stream of comments questioning how groomers are allocated, used and located, so here’s a behind-the-scenes look to provide a better understanding of what’s happened with the OFSC grooming fleet this […]

Over 18,000 private property owners across Ontario generously allow OFSC trails to cross their land. Many snowmobilers show their appreciation by staying on the marked trail - and some do more than that. Here’s one heart-warming story spotted on social media this week, that went something like this: “Our family were 12 miles into our […]

  Most of the year-round work done by our clubs and volunteers goes on behind the scenes. Same goes for work done by OFSC volunteers and staff to represent the interests of organized snowmobiling to all levels of government. One continuing way to do so happened again recently when OFSC staff attended the 2023 Rural […]