[pct-l] Giving way to Mtn Bikes on the PCT

[Sir Mixalot]

I hope you give this decision more time than it takes for this discussion
to die down.

As you said, the chance of injury is high.  If you want to seek damages, it
may cost you more time than you have, not to mention legal fees.

What we're looking at is a fight.  Hopefully it ends without mountain
bikers getting on the PCT, but if it doesn't, who is going to stand for our
rights?  If every hiker dives into the bushes when a mountain biker
selfishly and recklessly fails to yield, then we'll have lost again.
 Sometimes a fight involves taking one for the team.  This isn't for
everyone, and that's okay.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Austin Greavette <austin.greavette at gmail.com
> wrote:

> After reading all the emails about this, I was thinking the same thing Sir
> Mixalot.... Then I got to thinking, of all the challenges hikers face while
> hiking and the dangers of getting hurt, wouldn't it absolutely blow to have
> to end your hike with 1-3yrs of planning because a mtn biker refused to
> yield or came crashing in to us silently over a hill.
>
> I'd be beyond pissed.... thousands of dollars in the crapper.
>
> Someone mentioned in an earlier email about needing to look behind us to
> watch for mtn bikers.... Where I live I don't get the trail to myself and
> hate having to watch behind me. But what I hate more is being in a zoned
> out walk and having the shit scared out of me when they fly by and I was
> unprepared.
>
> The trails where I hike that allow mth bikes, has turned from a scenic
> trail to a semi road with ruts. Not only are their ruts on the trail, but
> off the trail to when they decide they want to avoid the water in their
> existing trails.
>
> As a non-us resident, I would re-consider my hike on the PCT if I had to
> worry about bikes.
>
> just my 2 cents (Canadian currency of course)
>
> oz
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Sir Mixalot <atetuna at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I will absolutely NOT yield to a mountain biker, especially if they're
> not
> > allowed on the PCT, and even if they are allowed on the PCT.
> >
> >
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