Our Elan is a 1995, not quite 25 years old yet.
For me, it's not the actual cost of the nickel and dime stuff, its the BS that comes behind it. Why are registration and trail permits both required? Supposed to be, that the registration fees pay the states cost for whatever they do for the sport (police officers, road repairs, etc.) and the trail stickers are like a mandatory donation to the private snowmobile clubs who actually maintain the trails, buy groomers, do trail cleanups, fight for new trails and keeping old trails open, deal with legal issues, and whatever else is seen as the face of our sport.
That is not the case anymore, and the money is dispersed in wrongful ways.
Paying $45 for a trail permit isn't a huge deal, but when I open my wallet, I see the $25 it used to cost, ten bucks for whatever they said we needed to pay for last year, but never did, and another ten bucks for more "things we need", but won't get. I see those twenty dollars going somewhere that will either not help, or hurt our sport.
Kinda like going to the parts store and picking up nickel and dime parts for my truck, but having to buy wipers for some fruit-loop's Prius and locks for them to chain up trail gates.