[pct-l] Why must there be a "Right Way & wrong way" to hike the trail?

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

The saying goes HIKE your own hike. Not BIKE your own hike. On the PCT, that is.
Bikes are very welcome elsewhere.

GAry

---- Wireless Rascal <wirelessrascal at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Thank you Reinhold for your call for moderation, acceptance and simply
> getting along! This issue strikes a particular chord with me because I have
> personally been the target of so much mean-spirited, discriminatory behavior
> simply because of my own unusual choice of equipment, which I’ll explain. It
> seems incredible, but I’ve been told that I’m not even wanted on the trail
> at all. As a lifelong conservationist, volunteer, leave-no-trace adherent
> and, I think, generally nice person, it really feels lousy to be the object
> so much mistrust and unfair criticism. I can’t tell you how many people have
> even gone so far as outright lying about me – accusing me of things that
> simply aren’t true – just to keep me off the trail. Reinhold’s sentiment, *“I
> SAY...Let them go on their journey their own merry way....and let them enjoy
> their journey their own special way.”* couldn’t ring more true to the ear of
> a “turtle,” a “rabbit” or, in my case, a mountain biker.
> 
> 
> You get my point...I hope.
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