[pct-l] Bikes on the PCT

[Marion Davison]

carol bruno wrote:
> Just returned from hiking a segment of section C and  was practically overrun by 
> a biker on the trail.  
We do all of our spring training/trailwork hikes in Section C, and have 
found nearly every inch of the trail contains bike tracks.  We have 
encountered both cyclists and motorcyclists.  Since we hike with a long 
string of llamas, we don't let them pass.  We stand our ground and tell 
them they don't belong on the trail and they need to turn around.  The 
motorcyclists have been apologetic, but most of the mountain bikers have 
been rude, confrontational, jeering, foulmouthed sorts.  On one occasion 
I met my doctor on a bike.  He said bikes should be legal on the PCT and 
he was going to keep on riding.  He went uphill around us and kept going.
llamalady