March 14th was FST’s SnoRondy, our 9th annual and by far the best Rondy we’ve had to date. Lots of folks showed up for the Drag Races, Kids SnoCross, 120 Rodeo, obstacle course, and of course hot dogs and brats.
As always, I was scrambling my butt off to get the drags organized (racer signups, place board, and help) and make sure we had all the food out and volunteers to cover the other activities. The COE was a great help, they always are and are the best folks to work with.
This year we added the Fun Lions Kids SnoCross races and had young’uns scattered all over the place, which is good, especially with the new federal regs coming out which will in essence eliminate the manufacturing and buying of small machines. Oh yeah, I know, some of you ignorate folks think this is a good thing, well it’s not and will in fact cause more harm then good. Why you ask, simple, instead of being able to acquire a smaller machine for the kids to ride and get “proper” training on, they’ll have to start riding larger more dangerous machines. Oh no they won’t you say, well maybe in your big cities and towns they won’t but in 99% of Alaska that’s exactly what they’ll have do. Our roads are limited and kids need something to do besides build snowman all day or watch videos, and snowmaching is one of the best ways to get them out of the house and playing on snowy winter days. So now were going to have more accidents and all you fools who supported this type of regulation can just kiss my *beep* for it.
So, now that I got that out of my system, the Rondy was a lot more work this year but worth it. And as always gives us more things to consider for next year and make it even better, so here’s hoping that next season is a good one with lots of snow and warm weather come Rondy time.
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