[pct-l] Forest Service to consider allowing Mtn Bikes on the PCT

[Jeffrey Olson]

I hope this doesn't happen.

My girlfriend and I were lying across the trail in a brushy section 
north of Tahoe when two bikers came charging up.  They were miles from 
being legal.  Of course we couldn't have moved fast enough to get out of 
the way, and one of them hit his brakes and twisted off the trail and 
his chainring landed on a small boulder and bent.  He had a couple miles 
to walk...

Try hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail and see what it's like.  I'd almost 
rather have grizzlies to be hyper-sensitive about than mountain bikers.  
98% are respectful, but like the selfish, small minded thrus that build 
fires on the PCT in non-emergency situations, it's the 2% it's too easy 
to remember.

I'm not trolling...

Jeffrey Olson
Rapid City, SD


On 10/7/2012 2:03 PM, Brick Robbins wrote:
> http://forums.mtbr.com/passion/big-news-feds-consider-allowing-bikes-pct-816289.html
>
> As a result, the Forest Service is going to begin a rulemaking
> procedure, probably in March of 2013, to consider making the
> non-Wilderness parts of the PCT multiuse. This will involve public
> notice and comment.
>