The best way to communicate is to break things down as simply as possible. This could be highlighting certain words, adding illustrations to enhance understanding, or simply making a “complex” subject easier to understand in layman’s terms. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office won the Internet today by using an illustration with “Minnesota Speaks” to highlight where snowmobilers can and cannot drive their vehicles. It was epically awesome.
Sometimes it helps to break down a complex topic into everyday language. The rules about where snowmobiles can be driven can be a bit complicated. We’ve put together the following description using Minnesota colloquialisms to help people understand where they can or cannot drive snowmobiles.
If you want a more complete guide to driving a snowmobile, we recommend this link to the DNR snowmobile regulations.
The post shows a picture of a typical Minnesota road in winter, in surprisingly good condition, and yellow text explains where you can drive snowmobiles in the photo.
Not surprisingly, it was a hit with Sheriff’s Office followers on social media, as the post was shared more than 150 times in about 5 hours. Additionally, it’s no surprise that others on social media have been heeding proper snowmobiling etiquette and warning drivers of the consequences of trespassing.
On the St. Cloud, MN Area Community Page, the Benton County Snowmobiling Club’s vice president reported on what the lack of permission could do to the rest of the group if local landowners closed their property to the group. That would be the equivalent of a 20 mile detour!
Good morning, Rice, MN!
My name is Aaron and I am the Vice President
Benton County Snowmobile Club.
As many of you have noted, there are snowmobile trails leading to Rice and providing access to our restaurants, gas stations, shops and pubs – snowmobiles are good for business.
As a club, we are very strict when we put up signs to stay on trails because they go through private land and permission to go through that private land can be taken away at any time because landowners get really angry when their crops are destroyed. , cattle are attacked, fences are broken.
It’s an insult to the generosity of the landowners and the decades the club has spent creating trails that can be instantly taken at the drop of a hat or the crush of a planter.
North of McDonalds, just a few hundred meters from the trail, there is a large hole a few hundred meters wide, quite attractive for monkeying around, although it is off the trail and placed so as not to be crossed due to all the crops under the snow. those are broken. Clearly placed.
If that landowner closes that trail access, he’ll create a 20-mile (yes, twenty) reroute that will bypass your town entirely. No gas, food, shopping, liquor sales or skiing and hitting the trails from your development.
Since we do not have permission from the new landowners to change that route, it could take years to build. Yes, I said that you end up years and years for you to attach your skis to another place, we cut down the trees one by one, because fools leave tracks.
So you can understand that as a 40 year old club we have spent decades building these trails. Why would we be so angry if we lost it to some boneheads who were ignorant of the importance of STAY IN THE TRAILS messages posted absolutely everywhere. and still takes the white Polaris Indy, that dude in the yellow sled, and that other idiot ball in the black sled just ignores the signs and insults our business and the generous gifts from the landowners.
Now, we understand that these may be some locals who are unaware of snowmobile etiquette and laws, so we encourage you to take the online classes offered by the state, offer as a club, or speak with one of the additional officials. will patrol our roads and issue $250 fines to trespassers.
We also have trail cameras in problem areas, and we’ll spend some time in blinds with telephoto lenses to nail sticks that will cause us a lot of work when they cause our trails to be closed due to their own ignorance. ignoring the law and what it means to be cool.
Please share this post with your neighbors, friends, friends and friends who snowmobile, especially if they recently bought their kid an old Polaris Indy, an older yellow Ski-Doo, or an old black snowmobile, because we can’t stand this crap and we’re now yours I’m looking for
Feel free to join our super cool club (and maybe donate to help with our thousand dollar weekly fuel bill) or share the links below for better and more educated ways to enjoy our regional roads:
https://www.google.com/search…
https://www.bentoncountysnowmobileclub.com/
It seems the lesson to be learned from all the snowmobiling posts here is to simply respect other people’s property and enjoy riding responsibly.
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