Herb Shaede is preparing these two Skiroule snowmobiles for Vintage Snowmobile – an event happening on April 6 thanks to the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club.
PHOTO BY CARL BR JOHNSON
By Carl BR Johnson
Get your classic snowmobiles ready for action because the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club will be holding it’s Second Annual Vintage Snowmobile Event on Apr. 6..
This event will give anyone with a snowmobile a reason to show-off with particular emphasis on the age of your machine and how long you’ve managed to keep it running.
The event was started by Dusty Dancer, an Albertan member of the club, who wanted to, “celebrate the past days of snowmobiling.”
“Creating this event has been on my brain for years now,” said Dancer.
“We’re expecting about a hundred people to show this year. Last year was the first official start of this event and had about 25 sleds show up and I wanted to do it because it’s [Revelstoke] such a great place to snowmobile.”
Dancer is the organizer of this event said there will be a lot planned for the Saturday affair which will start at a not-so-firm 9 a.m..
In keeping with his intended casual nature of the gathering, he said that anyone is welcome to come – not just those with old snowmobiles or club members.
Dancer promises a host of fun things to do for everyone who shows up.
“We’ll have a riders meeting at the base of Boulder Mountain at the parking lot near the H & J Ready Mix cement works,” he said.
“At around 10 a.m. we’ll head up the mountain on our sleds to the Boulder cabin and allow ourselves two hours to get there. At noon there will be a photo and judging session, after that, at about two, we’ll head farther up the mountain and take some more pictures.”
Dancer is acutely aware that there will be sleds in attendance that will be of a certain age and a tongue-in-cheek trophy for endurance will be handed out for the most resilient of machines.
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Herb Shaede, one of the more senior members of the club and a past presiding member, has been spending his time in advance of the event fixing up a pair of 1971 Skiroule snowmobiles.
“They’re basically functional now,” said Shaede.
“I just have to give them a bit of a tune-up and pretty them up a bit and we’ll ride them for the event.”
Sheade said events like this are special because they bring together like-minded folk who have these machines who want to compare experiences and secure bragging rights.
“It’s just like having old cars or old motorbikes – people wanna get together in the spirit of harmony to show off what they have,” he said.
Snowmobiling for Shaede is an important part of his life and represents an opportunity to not only experience the wide-open freedom to ride but also to participate in social events like the Vintage Snowmobile Event.
“I do it so that I can get out into the wild blue yonder, meet new people and have lots of fun – it’s all part of the recreation,” he said.
“I’m just a snowmobile aficionado.”