Ok, thanks! I have been using mine with no problems both in Oregon and Washington. Well almost no problems. I did get pulled over by the forest service (Oregon) once on the way home. He just said the road I was on earlier has a 48" width limit and the snowmobile assoc. maintains it and I guess someone complained.... But he did say that I could take it other places that didn't have the width limit on it. There seem to be plenty of those around here too. He was actually stoked on the machine and gave me some good suggestions on where to take it.
I was going to try the dmv for title and all but so far as long as I don't have any problems, I'll keep running as is. Good to hear on the Jamboree that we just need the tracks etc! Thanks! Hope all works out so I can join you up there this year.
I got stopped on a groomed trail while in my snow trac and was told I wasn't suppose to be on it and that I didn't pay for the grooming. He changed his tone when I said I did pay and pointed to my sticker on it. That was near Yakima.. I have found out each district seems to enforce and read the rules differently. In Washington when you register and pay the $25 you then get a numbered sticker and a parking permit for the snowpark.
The small fee is a cheap investment and helps the sport.
he wasn't a ranger but the guy running the groomer.
Our jamboree is on non groomed trails and we shouldn't meet any snowmobiles. Sometimes they will take a short cut and travel that road system. But not very often.
The owner of the private property that we'll unload at is the groomer operator and the pistenbully will be parked near us.
All he wants is to respect his property.
I would like to point out that our snowmobile license system puts 100% of the money back into it. The state gets none and gives us nothing. They tried to grab some and were reminded. They then backed off really fast. Were working on getting the gas tax back now. But that is a long shot. I am a member of the WSSA. Washington state snowmobile association
90% of the time no one even notices my sticker.
jim