Kelly Snowshoes Snowmobile Club

WELCOME!

Welcome to the website for the Kelly Snowshoes Snowmobile Club based in Marathon County in the Weston/Hatley, Wisconsin area! We hope you find this a valuable resource for your snowmobiling information.

Kelly Snowshoes News (updated 4/7/2024):

"Winter" Raffle 2024:

Our Winter Raffle was held on April 6 at Trailside Sports Bar & Grill in Weston. It was a fun day with lots of camaraderie! The cash raffle was drawn at the end of the evening and here are the winners:

1) Jim Esker 2) Bud Falk 3) Perry Bauer 4) Char Bendickson, 5) Mike Hagenbucher 6) Joe Spychalla 7) Gina Silvers 8) Sid & Sheila King 9) Faith Thurs 10) Dan Esker 11) Melody Schoenborn 12) Dan Marlenga 13) Steve Johnson 14) Brian & Rob Witzeling 15) Michael Wasnerski 16) Tim Lasee 17) Midwest Amusements 18) Ben Creske 19) Brian Thusius 20) Matt and Jake Hable

There are so many to thank for an event like this. Thank you to everyone that attended and participated! Thank you to all who donated time, cash, or items. We appreciate your support! Thank you to Trailside for the great venue and for the delicious food. Thank you to all the club members that participated - many hands make lighter work!

AND of course, a very special THANK YOU to our wonderful landowners for allowing us the opportunity to ride on the trail system known as Kelly Snowshoes!! As you know, our landowners rock! Without all of you, none of this would be possible!

We look forward to seeing all of you next year on our trails and at this annual event. Thank you again for supporting your local snowmobile club! Please think “cold and snow” for the 2024/2025 season!

September Club Meeting:

The next club meeting will be held at 7:00 PM on Tue, September 9 at our Club Shed, with pot luck and beverages starting at 6:00 PM. Please join us for the meeting and to enjoy some camaraderie! In the meantime, enjoy the off-season!

Jason Elliot Memorial Foundation:

Kelly Snowshoes received an incredible donation in October 2023! Click here to go to the "Sponsors" page to read about the donation and to see a picture of the new signs created March 2024 to honor Jason Elliot. Three signs have been created to honor Jason Elliott that will be displayed on a section of our trails system. We will have one at the "Winter" Raffles for all to see.

2023-2024 Trail Information

This area was set up in preparation for some snowy and cold-looking photographs, as well as reports of good trail conditions but Mother Nature caused the snowmobile season to be a bust with way too much warm weather. Please think "cold and snow" for next season so we can fill this "Trail Information" section up!

Trail work January 20, 2024!

It's amazing what a week of subzero temperatures can do for the problem areas of our trails. Our Little Eau Claire River crossings by Bevent Drive and west of intersection 419 are both solid ice now so Dennis is glad he waited a week to groom them. He took the Sur-Trac out today, which he said still does a great job (especially after Marv & Dave did some work on the pan this fall) and it lays down beautiful ribbon. Please see the trail photographs below as proof of the newly frozen areas and the beautiful ribbon! Dennis remembers when Kelly Snowshoes bought the Sur-Trac new in 2001 and he commented that it's just a reliable old groomer.

Think cold and snow to see if we can change Mother Nature's mind about the upcoming warm weather because, per Dennis, "3-4 inches or more of snow would do wonders" for the Kelly Snowshoes trails!!

Trail work January 13-14, 2024!

We finally received some snow so there was grooming taking place over the weekend!! Dennis Kleman took the Tucker and double groomed the South Loop on Sat, Jan 13 as well as from Intersection 416 to 450. On 1/14/2023 Dennis groomed the trail from the Club Shed at Intersection 451 to Intersection 419. On Saturday Matt Hable took the Sur-Trac north from the Club Shed to the Mountain Bay and to Yellow Banks Golf Disc Park then left the groomer with Caleb & Lindsey Loveless. On Sunday (1/14) Caleb groomed to the end of Misquote Road then back on the west loop to the Club Shed.

On Jan 12, Dennis asked Sid King of the Hatley Snowmobile Club to go through "Josh's Swamp" from Intersection 406 to Misquote Rd. After a board vote, they assisted us by packing down the trail. In return they will log those hours for doing our trail work. Thank you to the Hatley Snowmobile Club!

Included below are some pictures/video from this weekend.

Videos from Trail work Jan 13-14, 2024!

Above are a couple videos from the weekend grooming with the Tucker. One shows how slow going the first time out with the groomers can be (less than 5 mph).

Trail work November 2023

11/3/2023: Dennis Kleman was out on the trail system today putting up some signs. So it begins... The picture below is north of Budnik Road on the Litza portion of our trails.

Included here is a BIG shout out to our Trail Bosses: Randy Rainville, Josh Thompson, Jason Witzeling, Matt Hable, Caleb Loveless, Robb Shorey, Jim Miller, Chad Hintz, and Dennis Kleman. Thank you for all the work you put into our trails!!