Eastern Ontario Trail Blazers

The photos from the highlights of 2011 are now up!

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Saturday I sat in a room at Capital Dodge with 19 others who came to the club for the off-roading and stayed for the people.

The thing I like about off-roading is the unpredictability.

You can open a new trail at fall camp and return 3 weeks later and raise the bar on minimum requirements and still spend all day slipping sliding and twisting on wet leaves and rocks and come out in the dark.

We ran 7 trucks in the back door of the Quinn and emerged out the front some 10 hours later.

Thanks to the folks who came out to trail clean-up on Lyn Rd. in Brockville. This was a great group effort on the part of the local 4wd clubs. We had people from OVO, OJC, and EOTB. Thanks to Andy for organizing. The Brockville cycling club was invited but did not attend.

This trail was in the news lately because the cycling groups were concerned with litter on the trail. We pulled old furniture, rotten porches, construction materials, shingles, and general garbage from the bush. None of this refuse was brought by off-roaders but we are happy to lend a hand and beautify a trail for the benefit of all trail groups. EOTB only uses this trail once a year as part of our policy of minimizing our impact on the environment by travelling to different destinations each weekend.

Just some of the crew: (Tom, John, Craig, Evan, Andy)

If you were driving along Calabogie Road the morning of September 17 2011 you may have wondered what all the orange shirts were in the ditch ... it was the 4th semi-annual EOTB Adopt-a-Road clean-up!

We adopted this section of road back in June of 2010 and this year we were recognized for our efforts with our very own EOTB Adopt-a-Road sign. Mother Nature has benefited from our work, the residents and visitors to Calabogie have a cleaner section of road to travel, and EOTB gets the opportunity to give a little back to the community where we buy gas, buy food, camp, and go off-roading.

A big thanks to all the EOTB members and helpers that came out to help. You know you are making a difference when each time the pile at the end of the morning is slightly smaller and the garbage pre-dates some of our younger members (brown stubbies, old style pepsi cans ...)

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