- Date
- 1979-01
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationrecreationenvironmentcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1979 issue reports an active but difficult snowmobile season, with small safaris, moonlight trips, and several towed machines after deep snow.
Evidence and limits
This is a local newspaper account, not a route log, incident register, or equipment record.
Sources
- Reports deep, fluffy January snow, small and moonlight safaris, an unconfirmed all-female safari, no major incidents yet, and several snowmobiles towed back to town. It is a local newspaper account, not a route log, incident register, or equipment record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the snowmobile report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island snowmobile season begins amid deep January snow, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-snowmobile-beat-january-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1979, “The Snowmobile Beat.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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