The Coolest Ride: Snowmobiling
All the cool toys for snowmobiling – widely known as the coolest ride – will be at the official kickoff to winter. That’s the 18th annual Washington Snowmobile Expo & Swap Meet, Oct. 17-18.
YAMAHA, Arctic Cat, ski-doo, and POLARIS are among the top, brand-name manufacturers that will show their new models for the rapidly approaching snow season at the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup.
In addition to the latest snowmobiles and specialty sleds at this year’s major event, thousands of snowmobilers – and people curious about snowmobiling – will see and experience everything they need to know.
That also includes:
• Trailers
• Clothes
• High-performance parts and accessories
• Destination packages
• Huge swap meet
Actually, this event is the largest of its kind west of Minneapolis. People come from as far away as Idaho, Oregon, Montana, California and Canada just to take advantage of the great deals they can get at the Expo.
Sponsored by Washington State Snowmobile Association (WSSA), http://www.wssa.us, a special focus will be on safety. As always, look for WSSA’s special safety events:
• Safe snowmobile seminar for 12 to 16-year-olds to earn their Snowmobile Safety Certificate
• Avalanche and other free seminars
It is fun for the whole family – just $10 dollars admission, and children 12-and-under get in for free.
When: 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17 and 18.
Where: Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup.
For more information, visit http://www.wssa.us.
WSSA, http://www.wssa.us was founded in 1972 as a group that wanted to protect and preserve snowmobiling for future generations. WSSA is registered with the state of Washington as a non-profit group. WSSA members devote many hours to raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Washington.
In addition to grooming snowmobile trails and working on land use and legislative issues, snowmobilers across our state actively participate in maintaining Sno-Parks and warming shelters in our mountains. This includes picking up litter, cleaning restroom facilities, painting and cleaning shelters, clearing brush and fallen trees from trail systems, refurbishing bridges and culverts necessary to maintain access to the trails, building new Sno-Parks and sheds for the trail grooming machines, picking up litter along state highways in conjunction with the Adopt-A-Highway program and much more.
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