CoqSnow (Coquihalla Summit Snowmobile Club)
Exit 228 Coquihalla Hwy, PO Box 2336 V1K-1B8 Merritt, BC, Canada

Logging company has started bulldozing road open to 10-K. They are supposed to keep left side of Groomed trail in tact so sledders can still get to 10-K while they are working on roadway. We will let you know when they get to 10-K parking lot (will probably be a few days yet)... at which point you'll be unloading at 10K for rest of the season.

Logging company is moving into our area.. starting TOMORROW (Wed 17th). We knew this was in the works, but only got one day notice about their actual starting date. For the next several days, they are going to bulldoze the road open from 0-K to way past 10-K. They will open our 10-K parking lot when they get that far. In the meantime, you should be able to sled on the "ditch side" of the road until 10-K parking lot is done. We've asked them to leave a good portion of the groomed trail untouched for now. We will update you as they progress.

Groomer operator brought up Firewood to Henning Cabin deck. We are asking sledders to bring inside and stack under benches, please and thank-you.

For Family Day (Monday 15th), no-charge for kids sledding (16 or under)

We have one more AST-1 Avalanche Safety course coming up for Feb 20-21 (Sat-Sun). Saturday classroom portion will be on ZOOM, so you can do that at home. Sunday will be full day in the Snow learning how to use your beacons properly, rescue techniques, analyzing snow packs, and looking at Terrain to avoid avalanche risk in the first place. Call GM Gerald to sign-up 604-316-1600.

COLD TEMPS this week. Dress extra warm, AND, plan to get back well before dark. Some snow-bikers were out late today, then had problem with one bike, had to double out = slow going, then batteries died on their helmet lights = bit of panic. With help of couple club members, they are back down safe... cold and tired.

Anyone from Surrey area, near King George Skytrain, heading towards Chwk this week, or sled'n this week-end. We need a Tablet picked up and brought to Chwk or Collection Hut.

Logging company is DONE. They moved the last piece of equipment out yesterday, so the road to 10-K will become a GROOMED trail this week-end. All sledders to park in our main parking lot now, and no more Vehicles or ATV's allowed down Tulameen FSR anymore.

Here's one of our Groomers going down Spearing Bowl today. We had 2 Groomers out, doing most the secondary trails. Deep snow conditions with a soft base, so if you prefer to do some trail riding, tomorrow (Sunday) should be a good day for that.

I'm sure some of you are wondering about the current travel restrictions. Seems media is twisting things... AGAIN. This clip is straight from gov.bca.ca website. It's basically saying, if you want to go Sled'n, go to your LOCAL snowmobile club. For most of you following us on FB, that means it' OK to go to Britton Creek (CoqSnow). Gov't doesn't want to see Fraser Valley people travelling/staying at Revy or Sicamous at this time. Actually sounds reasonable.

Groomers were out last night... first time this season,. Our main trails up are Groomed - not awesome because of early snow conditions, but MUCH better than it was last weekend. 10-K riders will need to drive to 10-K parking lot as the road is still being plowed by logging for another 4-5 days. Your essential travel requirement is... checking out the area for any problems and looking for those mining wires.

they haven't finish logging yet... the warm weather slowed them down. We will clear 10-K parking lot tonight for 10-K sledders to use this weekend. They do not log on Sat & Sun, so shouldn't be any logging trucks to worry about.

Thank-you to Adam Fairfax and Eddie Furness for welding crack on Groomer frame, and painting our 2nd outhouse in parking lot. Plan on painting original one Blue as well.

someone is on our hut Roof ! don't worry, we are putting proper roof on hut because of some leaking issues last season.

Thank-you to Brent England & David Wood for doing a project in our Pipeline cabin project.

thank-you to Gary Henderson & wife for installing the last few sign-posts in our trail system - think we got them all now.

Anyone have a used truck box they are willing to donate for our club truck. It would be a bonus for our volunteers who take up tools or chainsaws, etc on project days. Doesn't have to be pretty or lockable.

anyone heading up to 10-K this week-end, and would be interested in trying to move our webcam to another tree. Call Gerald if you think you can help (604-316-1600)

Mitch Coers from Over-the-Edge Excavating was up brushing lower parts of 10-K trail-up and Henning trail-up. Alders don't look that bad in summer, but early winter, they all fall into trail with weight of snow, which makes trail narrow early season and alders are not good for our Groomer tracks/tillers. Expect trails to be wider early season now. Check Over-the-Edge on Facebook, this guy has a pretty cool machine that can deal with some pretty wild terrain, so no problems handling brushing on our trails. Over the Edge Excavating Ltd.

anyone have a seat available for a 99 Chev Truck. Driver seat in our club truck is messed up, so need a replacement - doesn't have to be pretty or 6-way power LOL

Big thank-you to Darrell Hyland and Dan Shelswell for re-painting Henning floor. Look at before & after pictures... definitely was due for a paint job !

Saturday was Firewood and Sign day. Got ALOT of firewood split and sent up Henning, but there's still more that needs to be brought up and some needs to be stacked in our shelter. Anyone available to help stack firewood before Thursday? As far as signs, several got installed, but there's 3 left to do. Anyone Quad'n Henning or 10-K this weekend and can install the last 3 sign posts ? Call Gerald @ 604-316-1600 Thank-you to the following people who helped on Saturday.... Adam Baker, Katrina Smith, Melvin Garib, Jarrod Simpson, Troy O’connell, Frank Boesterd, Jeff Champ, Jeff Boylan, Chris Shirley, Brent Shirley, Jim Moir, Evan Desmeules, Amanda Stevens & James Bartlett

10-K Deck roof and wind breakers (side walls) are DONE ! Thank-you to Aaron Mitchell and helpers for taking care of that !

First snow in the Alpine.... now that's exciting. Not good timing for our Firewood and Trail Signs work parties today !

First snow flakes at 10-K today... that's almost exciting. Winter is close !

Anyone good at designing Logo's, or know someone who is? We are considering selling CoqSnow swag again, but the consensus is... we need a better/cooler logo (see example). Anyone who can help with this, call or text Gerald @ 604-316-1600

Looking for volunteers with construction skills to do a small reno in our Pipeline Cabin. If you can help club out, call Gerald @ 604-316-1600 for details

anyone have a 6x12 or larger dump trailer available for this coming week-end firewood work party ? We have volunteer available to tow up to Britton Creek if your not available Saturday. Call Gerald if you can help @ 604-316-1600

Looking for volunteers with construction skills to do reno on Henning Cabin. The plan is to add a door on the back wall beside the big window, and to replace the two small windows with large Windows like we have in the new section (both sides). If there is a group that can tackle this, call Gerald @ 604-316-1600

Looking for volunteer to paint our outhouses. The plan is to have them both Blue to match the collection hut. Inside can use coat of white paint. Call Gerald @ 604-316-1600 if you can help out.

Our GOLD sponsor Triwest Contracting is working on main parking lot. Have a grader levelling and sloping the parking lot to eliminate the "ugly" spots in the winter/spring. Once everything is levelled and sloped, they will roll entire lot to push down all the ugly rocks. Membership $ and Trail fees isn't just for grooming... it's for important projects like this. If you are quadding this week-end, please park your rigs on the pipeline and leave parking lot open so they can finish things off nicely.

Anyone available to run a 225 Excavator in next few days ? We are working on our parking lot to improve things for up-coming season. Any sledders available to help out ? Call Pete Brodie @ 778-779-5226

F I N A L L Y... some actual Good News for 2020 !

Our GOLD sponsor A.J. Towing moving our changing room to another business for the summer. We'll get it back for next winter.