Great comments so far! I'll elaborate on a couple of the questions in here:
We have invited the vintage folks every year. For the past few years they have been able to ride under CSA's insurance with the pretense that they would become a club through CSA. This year, they again approached CSA and we worked to again get them under our insurance. However, we weren't able to do so because of something to do with our policy and non-member clubs. They chose not to become a club or supply their own insurance and therefore chose not to attend. I was really bummed to see it go this way. I hope we can work something out for next year as they are so cool to see!
On the OEM vendors, we ask, beg, and plead the OEM's to ALL come to our show. In fact, I really thought Yamaha was going to have a factory booth, but it didn't work out. Arctic Cat sends a couple of factory people and usually rob and Dave but they use the local dealers to mainly support our show (I believe their big factory trailer is in Epping during our show). As far as Polaris, I don't know why they don't come. All of that being said, I would love for them all to come and show their new tech. We lean on them pretty hard, both through CSA and from the SnowGoer side. I am very thankful for the OEM's that do show up.
As for the events, I'm on board with getting something going as well. It looks like attendance was up (double digits) this year, so that will help. Otherwise, the expense is just too much. I'm continuing to push on this issue though.
On all of the other points that were brought up, they are excellent and we will use them as well as any that follow in planning next year's event.
Thank you all so much!
