[pct-l] Mt. Bikes on the trail

[Jim Keener]

Greetings,

This reads like something from someone who knows the price of  
everything and the value of nothing. What are you the list's latest  
troll?

J J


On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Lars Nilsson wrote:

> Someday there is going to be an amendment to the Wilderness Act  
> that could be wide enough to drive a Mack Truck through.  Someone  
> is going to sue for access to wilderness areas using some form of  
> wheeled vehicle because of the Americans with Disabilities Act.   
> Some judge will rule in that plaintiff’s favor, and voila,  
> motorized wheel chairs will be permitted.  Of course they will have  
> to be modified to travel further than a battery will allow and to  
> traverse rough terrain (wheelchair mounted on a Jeep chassis,  
> capable of the Rubicon Trail).
>
> Rubbish?  Tell that to various places that now have to allow for  
> more than the seeing-eye dog – they have to accommodate companion  
> animals some doctor has prescribed to some emotional/mental need of  
> that animal’s human companion.
>
> For the record, I am not advocating unregulated access by Humvee’s  
> or bicycles.  I just think that sometimes if we in the hiking  
> community are seen as being too strident and unyielding we might  
> find ourselves being run over by those more vocal and with more  
> access ($$$) with law makers.  And at the pace I hike, I’ll  
> probably be the first speed bump.
>
>
>
> Lars Nilsson
>
> TrailSnail
>

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