This year’s Snowball Dinner, a fundraiser for Scenic Montana Trails, was all about local businesses, sponsors, prizes and keeping dollars in the community.
“Bottom line is our Snowball was a great success from pretty much every angle,” Tom Stanley, secretary of Scenic Montana Trails, said.
Scenic Montana Trails buys fuel locally, as many parts as it can to fix any machinery locally and it pays groomers who live locally.
“By and large, most of this money stays local in our effort to improve the recreational trails in the greater Seeley Lake area,” Stanley said.
Scenic Montana Trails, formerly the Seeley Lake Driftriders, contracts with the state of Montana, which provides money for the group to groom trails used by all varieties of bikes (fat bikes, e-bikes, etc.) and different motorized options including snowmobiles, ATVs and side-by-sides.
Prizes donated for raffles and auctions included an electric motorcycle, avalanche kits, campfire accessories, 50 pounds of ground beef, massages, coffee and a rolling Craftsman toolbox. The event hit capacity at the Seeley Lake Community Hall on Feb. 3, which Stanley said it does every year.
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