Vernon ATV Club

Lumby Days Parade

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Lumby Days Parade Report – a great turnout of both parade entries and people out to watch. A really fun event to participate in just for the joy of watching little kids react when you wave to them, most would start waving back like crazy… until their hands shot to cover their ears when the tow truck behind us would sound his train horn and scare the crap out of them.

Join the club as we ride the streets of Lumby in the Lumby Days Parade Saturday, June 10. Meet at the industrial park east of Lumby at 9:30am to assemble and decorate, the parade rolls at 11:00am and should wrap up around 12:30pm. Please let us know if you’re coming by email, use the form below, on facebook or comment on this page.

The parade theme is Canada 150, the club has a lot of flags and other decorating items but you can bring your own decorations if you have them.

Consider staying in Lumby all day to check out the many activities including:

  • Pony cart rides
  • Midway rides
  • Pioneer power display
  • Show & shine
  • Live entertainment
  • Bing
  • Freestyle motocross
  • Helicopter rides
  • Wrestling

and more, check out the Lumby Days schedule

Sunday Kelly Mtn Ride

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Ride Photos

Join Steve for a ride in the Kelly Mtn area Sunday morning as he celebrates the Queen’s birthday with Australians.

Meet at Tim Hortons on 58th Avenue, leaving for the drive to the McTavish Rd staging area at 9:30am with the ride starting at 10:30am.

Google Directions

Ladies Ride June 4

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Ride Photos

This ride is for the ladies and features special treatment with afternoon refreshments and snacks. We’ll ride Noble Canyon to get the spectacular views over the valley and check out the network of old logging roads and trails.

The afternoon viewpoint stop will have beverages and snacks for everyone that registers.  Guys are welcome too, you’ll be doing a separate ride then meet up at the afternoon refreshment location.

Starting at noon, we’ll be back down to the parking area by 4:30pm.

Ride speed and difficulty will be Green (beginner) and there will be 2 outhouse stops along the ride.

If you want food and beverages you must register!

Irish Creek Saturday Ride

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Ride Photos

The Salmon Arm club is going for a Saturday ride starting on Irish Creek Road, just north of Motoplex Speedway and Westside Road (map and directions below).

Meet at 9:00am, the ride will be approximately 100km long and will go to Woods, Jimmy and Pinaus lakes. Being early season and with recent storms there may be some trail clearing but hopefully others have already blazed a trail.

Please email info@vernoantvclub.ca by Friday at 6:00pm if you’re attending the ride.

Google Map & Directions

2017 King Eddy Road Cleanup

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The weather turned decidedly summer-like on Saturday May 20 for our annual cleanup on King Eddy Road. 22 members of the Vernon ATV Club as well as members of Kelowna and Salmon Arm ATV Clubs and area residents put in hard work in the hot sun picking up other people’s garbage.

We filled a 15 cubic yard bin to the brim with garbage, it weighed 2,625lbs. We were also able to sort off several truckloads of recyclable steel into the salvage pile and wood for recycling by chipping.

Notable items picked up:

  • Truck canopy pulled from King Eddy Lake
  • Hot water tank winched from steep ditch
  • Two garbage bags of shotgun shells (500+ shells)
  • Damaged culvert and over 1,000lbs of metal diverted to the scrap steel pile

We thank the following companies for their help in making our cleanup anther huge success:

And of course a huge thank you to everyone who volunteered a day from your long weekend to clean up after stupid people. We appreciate your effort!

If you need an excavator, some earth moved or a garbage bin rental call Silvercrest Trucking & Excavating Bin Rental

May 20 Cleanup Registration

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Meeting and sign in for the cleanup begins at 9:00am on Saturday May 20. We’ll start with a brief orientation, safety talk and map of the area to be cleaned then send everyone off to clean the mountainside at 9:30. Please bring gloves, boots and some high visibility clothing (if you have it).

There is a BBQ for all cleanup volunteers at 1:30pm so please let us know if you’re coming so we have enough food for everyone, sign up below!

May Long Weekend Cleanup & Ride Schedule

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The first official weekend of summer in Canada and one of the biggest weekends for the ATV Club. Bring your RV or camper to the Sort Yard on King Eddy and stay for the weekend or just stop by to help out with the cleanup or take in one of the rides. Like all ATV Club activities everyone is invited, you don’t have to be a member to join us on a ride – come check it out!

If you’re camping for the weekend let us know by Friday at noon so we can arrange vehicles around camp central.

Weekend Schedule:

Friday May 19

  • 4:00pm – Sort Yard open for campers
  • 7:00pm – Campfire

Saturday May 20

  • 9:00am – Cleanup meeting – bring gloves, boots and high-vis if you have it
  • 9:30am – Cleanup starts
  • 1:30pm – BBQ at sort yard
  • 2:30pm – Continue cleanup or head out for ride
  • 7:00pm – Campfire

Sunday May 21

  • 10:00am – Ride from Sort Yard
  • 7:00pm – Campfire

Monday May 22

  • 10:00am – Ride from Sort Yard
  • 5:00pm – Party’s over, out you go

Map to Sort Yard – the Sort Yard is used by an industrial recycling facility so there are tire popping hazards, we will have a safe route marked out with traffic cones for you to follow to the camping area.

A big thanks to Silvercrest Waste Bin Rental & Disposal for waste bin services!

 

Photos from the 2016 Cleanup

Mt Ida ride with Salmon Arm/Enderby Club

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Ride Report: WOW!

That sums it up pretty well, one of those days that goes to the top of your list for all time great rides. Thanks in large part to the Walker family going out several times to pre-ride, cut blowdown and make alternate trail choices around the landslides.

Thank you Martina, Brenda and Allen for all the work and a great ride!

The first real ride of the spring season that spanned more than 75km, stopped at numerous viewpoints, tackled all kinds of different trail conditions and stopped for drinks and story time on the way home, a good day!

This late spring and slow snow melt kept us from pinning down a location for this ride until now. Thanks to Allen and Brenda for pre-riding to make sure we could get through.

The ride is open to club members, friends, guests and anyone who wants to come along.

The ride heads out from the parking areas on the FSR at 10:00am, expected return to the vehicles is 3:00-4:00pm. Ride distance is estimated at 60km.

For riders leaving from Vernon we’ll meet at the north Tim Hortons on 58th Avenue (across from Wal Mart), the convoy leaving there at  at 8:45am for the ride staging area.

Come prepared for early spring weather which when combined with higher elevations can mean rain or snow. Bring a lunch, not sure if we’ll have a campfire but we’ll try. Don’t know if there are any outhouses along the ride for bathroom breaks.

Google Directions – https://goo.gl/9MSUY7

After getting to the FSR shown on the map above drive up and park at one of the locations shown on the map

Spring Vernon ATV Club Meeting

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Starting at 6:30pm Monday, April 24 at the clubhouse at 940 Pottery Road.

If you haven’t been out to the winter and early spring rides this is your first chance to meet other members in 2017. If you have been out on rides, well Hi, good to see you again!

The purpose of the meeting is to update members on developments over the winter, plans for the year ahead and to get your feedback and ideas for rides, events and social functions.

Everyone is invited, you don’t need to be a member to attend and please feel free to come check the club out.

If you’re interested in joining the club memberships will be for sale. We’ll be selling 2017 ATV/BC Raffle tickets too.

Oregon Dunes 2018 Planning – After the meeting there will be photos and videos from previous dune trips and cost information provided for those interested in going in 2018. We’ll see who is interested in going and set a date so we can book accommodation.