[pct-l] Forest service reconsidering mountain bikes?

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, James,

The greatest damage to trails by bikes doesn’t specifically relate to
contact pressure or area.  While footprints, and even hoof prints, may make
staggered impressions here and there, tire tracks are substantially
continuous the entire length of a hill.  The resulting grooves invite – in
fact even compel – water to fallow and wash out an ever deepening rut.
 Additionally,
whether accidentally or on purpose, water bars that have been installed to
get water off the trail are damaged by tires.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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