How do you know what size snowshoe to get? First assess your weight, including all the gear and clothing you’ll be wearing when you're snowshoeing. Next, consider the snow conditions you’re likely to travel in most. Will you be in deep, untracked powder, or groomed trails and established snowshoe routes? If you're at a high altitude or very far north where snow generally falls deep and light a larger snowshoe is in order. If you're snowshoeing at lower elevations or in a coastal range where snow has high moisture content a smaller snowshoe is your best choice.
The idea is to find the smallest possible snowshoe that matches your needs in most–not all–situations so you can maximize your agility and efficiency.
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Membership renewals for 2013 are going out December 1st, 2012 We are
sending them to you as our contact person - but is there someone else
that has to absolutely get the invoice in your organization? We wish to
make sure they land on the right desk! Board members or staff will be
calling to confirm over the next weeks.
OTC Membership is Value for Money : How do we stack up? This year we will have 1,000,000 unique visitors to the OTC website. For trails there is no other leader - not even nationally - and I quote from Context Creative:
"ComScore is a leading analytics organization that provides industry standard rankings used by many companies to assess their performance and investments in the digital world; many agency planners only go off ComScore numbers in their media buying initiatives. There are a couple of other trail sites as well, but Suite66 wasn't able to locate another one big enough to be reported in ComScore. So this is also impressive that OTC is present there.
For the month of September 2012, Canadian stats:
OntarioTrails.on.ca: 65,764 UVs (Unique Views) / 329,511 PVs (Page Views)
ComScore reports the following for comparison:
national outdoor org 50,440 UV’s / 249,000 PV’s
national geographic org: 41,000 UV’s / 114,000 PV’s"
So please tell you administrators that even in terms of a couple of hundred dollars in marketing expense, more people will see and use your trails because of your presence on the OTC website. The site is no longer supported by the province - so we need your financial support to manage, update and improve the site every day! Join Today - Use Paypal!
So please tell you administrators that even in terms of a couple of hundred dollars in marketing expense, more people will see and use your trails because of your presence on the OTC website. The site is no longer supported by the province - so we need your financial support to manage, update and improve the site every day! Join Today - Use Paypal!
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Trailhead Ontario:June 9-11, 2013Our Favourite Place, Peterborough
Our Plan for 2013 – We
are working with the full support of Our Favorite Place (RTO8),
Peterborough and the Kawartha’s Tourism and a number of local trails groups
to bring you the best Trailhead Ontario yet!. There are a lot of new
trails and trail tourism partnerships in RTO8. The Ontario Trails
“Trailhead Ontario 2013″ Committee is is pleased to announce the Holiday Inn Waterfront Peterborough as the location of our conferencing. Site locations for our trail education program are being determined now.
New for 2013 -Regional
Tourism development includes trails. Trail packages, trail experiences,
trail destinations. This takes a blending of major destinations,
natural topographies, parks, conservation, county forest and up to 18
different trail activities. What’s in your “Trail Mix”?
What’s our plan for marketing this unique matrix of dynamic outdoor
experiences so that the world can find the world’s best range of trail
fun right here at home.
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Member Requests
1) How do you support donors on your trail signage? Please send examples to OTC.2) Please renew your OTC Membership - TODAY
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Trails are the future - if you really want to be part of the trails movement in Ontario, you need to be a member of the OTC."
- Forbes Symon, Director of Planning and Development, County of North Grenville
3) Liability Survey Arising from our meeting with the ADM and staffs October 1, 2012
Short Form
Long Form
Please complete ASAP
4) Hamilton Conservation discount passes - Additional rewards :-)
5) Anybody aware of any sanctioned "free run" dog trails? Came up at Toronto Beltline Trail Meeting. Please call OTC Office with information
6) Credit Valley Conservation looking for support from Shell Fuelling Change Project
7) OTC Mobile App - for iProducts and Windows
8) Jeff Muzzi wants information on forestry and trails master plans, as well as comprehensive trails plans so that he can help his county work with all facets of trail development, tourism, active transportation, health and land management. Contact Jeff at Manager, Forestry Services, Renfrew County 613-633-9683
JMuzzi@countyofrenfrew.on.ca
9) Petawawa Parks and Recreation Department is looking for a few volunteers to start a trails club/committee. Are you interested in making Petawawa a great place to walk, hike and bike on trails through out the Town. Want to find out more give us a call at 687-5678
10) Anne Wier with Economic Development, Leeds and Grenville Counties wishes to have more information from communities that have successfully used gas tax or gas tax surplus funds to build trail. Please contact Anne at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ann-weir/16/a28/719
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Check out the latest trail opening here.
12) Thanks to The Great Waterway for their support. Contact Graham Burke if your RTO wants to do the same!
13) Millennium Trail PEC Blog - often looking for volunteers
14) Each week 100 folks talk about us and we reach over 21,000 on facebook alone. Check us out
15) Membership section of OTC website updated - get your login and password today!
16) Director section of the OTC website updated - get your login and password today! New content added - Guideline for Interpreting Financial statements and Past Meeting Minutes.
17) CPRA Looking for Infrastructure and Parks Volunteer e-mail John Lohuis at Niagara Parks
18) Add your trail
19) Add your event
20) Perth County Meeting
21) Prescott-Russell look for links on website for Masterplan
22) Ontario Nature have their Christmas cards
23) The Toronto Bruce Trail public bus hikes
24) Follow the Education Program on Facebook
25) Follow the Education Program Updates on Twitter
26) OTC Education Partner
27) Trail Priorities Survey
28)Trail Reform Now Survey
29) Trail Projects 2012
30) Ontario Trails Maps
12) Thanks to The Great Waterway for their support. Contact Graham Burke if your RTO wants to do the same!
13) Millennium Trail PEC Blog - often looking for volunteers
14) Each week 100 folks talk about us and we reach over 21,000 on facebook alone. Check us out
15) Membership section of OTC website updated - get your login and password today!
16) Director section of the OTC website updated - get your login and password today! New content added - Guideline for Interpreting Financial statements and Past Meeting Minutes.
17) CPRA Looking for Infrastructure and Parks Volunteer e-mail John Lohuis at Niagara Parks
18) Add your trail
19) Add your event
20) Perth County Meeting
21) Prescott-Russell look for links on website for Masterplan
22) Ontario Nature have their Christmas cards
23) The Toronto Bruce Trail public bus hikes
24) Follow the Education Program on Facebook
25) Follow the Education Program Updates on Twitter
26) OTC Education Partner
27) Trail Priorities Survey
28)Trail Reform Now Survey
29) Trail Projects 2012
30) Ontario Trails Maps
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