Merritt Snowmobile Club 

Thanks to all the volunteers & company’s that helped make this happen.

This was a dream build for the club a couple of years ago and turned into qualifying to be partly funded by a grant with the British Columbia Snowmobile Federation - BCSF

Thanks to Jessie Pierce with Valley Helicopters Ltd. for flying out this new piece of technology into our sledding backcountry. 

Cool Tech on board includes:

- This unit will have a camera that takes a photo every 10mins and is uploaded to our Merritt Snowmobile Club website.

- APRS GPS Digi. The ability to forward GPS data from the region from our groomers into the ham radio tracking network.

- Local open WiFi for emergency call out.

- Be a known point in the alpine so SAR crews can recover injured folks from. Has an excellent landing area right next to it.

- Remote monitored for battery health and solar production. 

Again thanks to Grant Klassen, Wyatt MacDonald and Simon & Bryson Rizzardo for helping out on-site today. Thanks to David Swoboda for being at the launch spot and keeping trucks from parking in the way. Future add-ons may include internet linking for backcountry BCA radio channel 4, T100 back to Merritt for emergency calls.