Michigan Bronco Club

Drummond Island “ride flyer”(if you are registered, you should have already received this): https://michiganbroncos.club/docs/Drummon_Island_info_packet.pdf
If you are going and have not registered go here:

https://forms.gle/uUSYxAJay7uMrU4k6

Please tell me that this is not a one off and that we will get this chance again soon to join?

I assume this will be an annual event, but for this year, it’s probably the last organized ride at Drummond

@HokieinMI

@HokieinMI thank you! Next Thursday will be here before you know it. You guys are going to have a blast at Drummond island. It looks so cool there. That would be cool to get an assembly line photo while on Drummond.

@SurfsUp85

@SurfsUp85 - it now got bumped to Friday next week. I'm just waiting to hear that it is moving weeks.... my husband keeps telling me to stop looking but I can't help myself. This is definitely an excercise in patience.... not my strong suit.

@HokieinMI

@HokieinMI ah that's terrible!!! Yes it certainly is. It will all be worth it. Without a doubt. The fact that it got bumped to next week is a good thing when considering that most get bumped to the next month. Maybe they are waiting on an accessory or production hasn't been as productive. Head high

Drummond in the snow is a lot of fun too! But it can get more limited in trail availability when you are sharing with the snowmobiles.

I am not sure about the DI trails, but I know that MI was looking to exclude ORVs completely from groomed trails from Dec. 1 to March 30, plus the shutdown of trails in public areas during hunting hours for Firearm Deer Season and limited lodging options in the winter might make it hard to do a group ride in the snow. I personally would like to host something by our place near Oscoda this winter as the snowmobile trails are pretty limited and the two tracks and forest roads are both plentiful and made somewhat challenging with snow on them, usually between Christmas and beginning of March.

@Mattwings

@Mattwings for winter wheeling you might check out the St Helen area. There is plenty of lodging and the community is very receptive to all types of 4x4s. They host several big off road events in that area every year. Its also very close to the Mio and Bull Gap trails.

@Zixer37

@Zixer37 it’s definitely a good winter spot. We did one club ride last year there in late winter/early spring and it was a good area. In the “depth” of winter a lot of it is groomed and if not illegal yet, strongly frowned upon to ride. I think we would just have to pick a date on the early or later side of expected snowmobile grooming and hope!

Jeep Jamboree did two winter events on Drummond and I know that there was a lot of negotiation on the sharing of trails. They used a very limited amount of groomed trails that were needed to access other areas and then paid to have them groomed after the event. The areas used were a very small percentage of the total groomed trails but there was still a lot of frustration from the snowmobile community. We went up another winter on our own and the snow amounts were lower so there was not a lot of trails groomed at the time so it wasn't an issue for us but depending on the snow conditions it could be. We also spent time in the off road park so that we were staying off of the trails. I haven't heard the latest on the effort to exclude ORV's during the winter - hopefully that doesn't go through.

It passed the House and is stalled in the Senate I believe. https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/mi/2021-2022/bills/MIB00018267/ It's kind of weird, because the main group supporting the ban also represents both ORVs and snowmobiles. It's really complicated (as you are likely aware), because the Snowmobile trails use a lot of private right of ways. Those right of ways are not generally used by the ORV trials/routes and those property owners often do not want ORVs to use the trails or right of ways.

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