Calling Lakes Cruisers Snowmobile Club 302
We are located in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan in the beautiful scenic Qu’Appelle Valley. Just 50 minutes north east of Regina, Saskatchewan on highway 10.
Calling Lakes Cruisers snowmobile club has been active for the past 27 years. The club was formed in 1994 with Brian Breti as President, Ron Tulik as Vice-President, Brad Konescni as 2nd Vice President and Michelle Beaulieu as Secretary. The club was incorporated September 1, 1995 and became a member of the Saskatchewan Snowmobile Association.
Some of the original members Brian Breti, Ron Tulik family, Robert Jackson family, Joe & Myrna Frank, Emil Schatz, Brad Konescni, Eric Sandercock, Ron & Joan Spannier family, to name a few, all donated $200.00 each to purchase the first Snowcat. The Bombardier J5 was purchased from L. Pantel and Ron Spannier made the first drag in his shop.
The 2nd Snowcat purchased was a Bombardier SV301 and Ron Tulik & Ron Spannier went to Calgary to pick it up. The club’s 3rd Snowcat was a Tucker and the 4th Snowcat was a Bombardier 400 and was later sold to Ron & Joan Spannier who still have it today. The club’s 5th and current Snowcat is a Bombardier 350.
In 2011 the club purchased a 2003 Jimmy ZR2 and had tracks installed and Degelman Industries built the drag for the Jimmy. The Jimmy is used for marking trails and grooming the lakes and any trails not wide enough for our Bombardier 350.
The club’s first shelter was a granary donated by Ron & Joan Spannier. Now called Spanco’s it was soon too small and a house from Fort Qu’Appelle was purchased and moved into the current Spanco’s site by Ron Tulik and Jackson Bros. The shelter was renovated by volunteers and Joe Frank donated the wood slats used on the inside and outside.
In the early days Calling Lakes Cruisers had six small shelters. Today, the club maintains 293.94 kms of groomed trails. Our trails join Melville Showstopper Snowmobile Club trails, Cupar Snowmobile Club trails and Indian Head Trans Canada Trail Drifters club trails. Over the years smaller shelters, like Pickers and Termites, have been replaced with the current 3 larger shelters: Spanco’s, Rooster’s Retreat and our newest shelter Deer Creek Lodge. These shelters are all equipped with woodstoves, barbeques, generators, firepits and of course woodsheds.
Our membership numbers vary depending on snow conditions but we always welcome new members. Membership fees and sponsors fund the cost of maintaining the shelters and stocking them with wood, barbeques, generators, etc. If you use our shelters we encourage you to become a member and/or sponsor to support the cost of maintaining them. Membership forms are available at all the shelters and can be printed from this Website by selecting the “Membership Form” link on the Home page.
It takes many hours of work to keep all our shelters and equipment maintained. Most of this, falls on the shoulders of volunteers so when you are out enjoying our trails and shelters remember to say thanks to these dedicated people that over the years made it possible.
Calling Lakes Cruisers meetings are held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Fort Qu’Appelle.
Dates:
AGM 06Nov20 @ 7pm
04Dec20 @ 7pm
08Jan21 @ 7pm (Cancelled due trail marking)
05Feb21 @ 7pm
05Mar21 @ 7pm
CLC Club Info
Please be courteous of others and clean up after yourself when using CLC warm up shelters
17Feb21
Well we have not been sitting idle through the big freeze we have had for the past week and a half. We have been busy building hundreds of signs so we can continue trail marking now that it is warming up. The groomer started grooming the marked trails and all marked trails should be groomed by end of day Friday. We will be marking & grooming trail 302G to 339B intersection on Thursday 18Feb21. Friday, 19Feb21 we will be marking trail 302C on Echo Lake and hopefully have Pasqua Lake and Echo Lake groomed Friday night. Thanks for your patience while we continue the marking of 297KM of trails. If any of you are interested in assisting, don’t be shy, call or email us and let us know. We will be concentrating on trail 302B from Mission Lake to the end of Katepwa Lake next week.
30Jan21
Marked trail 302C on Pasqua Lake.
29Jan21
Marked and groomed 302A from Balgonie to Edenwold to #10 hwy.
23Jan21
Marked and groomed trail 302A and 302B from Robo’s to Lipton. Very nice snow all the way to Lipton. Groomed 302A from Roosters to Fort Qu’Appelle.
16Jan21
Marked trail 302A from Roosters to Fort Qu’Appelle. Trail conditions are not great. The groomed trails are very hard packed and icy and the lakes are rock hard on the north side. We need a good dump of snow.
09Jan21
Panned trail 302D from junction of 302C to Junction of 302B and 302B from junction of 302D to Dysart junction of 302C.
**** While marking trails we are finding our shelters are being use a lot, but, SOME people are leaving them in a big mess. It’s not like the few volunteers we have aren’t busy enough trying to get trails setup for the plated sled riders and more importantly our club members, that we have spare time to cleanup after these people. We want to remind those leaving the messes in our shelters, these shelters are not your home and we, volunteers, are not your parents who cleanup after you. Please be responsible adults and keep our shelters clean. If you pack it in then please pack it out. To those of you that are doing your part to keep our shelters clean, we thank you! ******
08Jan21
Marked trail 302D from junction of 302C to Junction of 302B then marked 302B from junction of 302D to Dysart junction of 302C.
31Dec20
Marked trail 302C from Spanco’s to Dysart.
30Dec20
Busy trail marking. The following trails were marked and panned today, CLC 302F from Standing Buffalo to Rooster’s and 302A from Rooster’s to Balgonie and Pilot Butte.
14Nov20
A huge thanks to Robert Whiting, Garnet Spanier & Tim Hollerbaum for installing a new larger window facing the firepit area at Spanco’s
13Nov20
A big thank you goes out to Dwayne Gafencu, Don Nashiem, Garnet Spanier, Adam Beattie and Tim Hollerbaum for hauling wood and filling the woodsheds at Spanko’s and Rooster’s.
06Nov20
Meet your new board that was elected at the AGM on 06Nov20. You can find the list here.
07Sep20
We will be looking for volunteers to help side Deer Creek shelter in the very near future. It’s that time again!
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Calling Lakes Cruisers
P.O. Box 685
Fort Qu’Appelle, SK S0G 1S0
Phone: 306-519-5559
E-mail: info@callinglakescruisers.ca