RANGELEY — This year’s Snodeo weekend brought enthusiastic throngs of snowmobilers to town.

Despite the below-average snowfall, the local trails offered a great base, according to the Rangeley Lake Snowmobile Club treasurer and event organizer Nick Pathiakis. Events to raise money for the club included a standing-room-only auction the night before.

“It was one of our best,” Pathiakis said. “We’ve done this for 26 years, and we are very pleased with this year’s turnout.”

On Saturday afternoon, he awarded trophies to winners in the radar run competitions held earlier on Haley Pond. The large post-race crowd at the Rangeley Inn and Tavern started celebrating early, cheering enthusiastically for their friends and family members who stepped forward to receive their recognition.

One of the younger competitors was Jack Faulkner, 6, of Gorham, who bested others in the 150cc class with a speed of 39 mph. His mother, Lacey Jones, stepfather Mike Fowler and friend Mike St. Pierre joined Jack in the victory celebration after a day of races.

“We brought him up here to compete,” Jones said. “He loves it.”

Saturday’s activities included the radar runs on Haley Pond, a snowmobile Poker Run, a marshmallow roast, helicopter rides and the popular Rave X stunt riders’ show.

Allissa and Joseph Maxwell of Fayette waited patiently in the line of snowmobiles that prepared to cruise down Main Street at the start of the evening’s entertainment. The couple had taken a 30-mile ride on the trails earlier in the day and stopped to watch the Rave X stunt riders before joining the parade.

The group rode to the downtown lakeside park, where they joined a larger crowd gathered for a spectacular fireworks display. Although the popular fireworks show was canceled for the past two years because of high winds, the change to low-ceiling fireworks kept the display at 250 feet instead of the usual 500 feet.

This year, weather cooperated overall, with just the right degree of cold and an absence of the past year’s biting wind. Margie Jamison, another volunteer organizer of the weekend’s festivities, said the day trippers helped make the annual event a success.

“When it’s too cold, people won’t come up here just for the day, especially if they have children who have to spend the day outdoors,” she said. “We’d like to have a little more snow, but otherwise, it couldn’t be a better weekend.”

Travis Ferland, owner of the Rangeley Inn and Tavern, said he had a full house all weekend and had to turn away those who decided to make the trip north at the last minute.

“I think every room in town was booked, and we have been busy all week,” he said.