[pct-l] bikes on the PCT

[A.C. Scott]

While I know it is true that mountain bikers and. Hikers. Can coexist on the same trail.bikes are not allowed on the pct and. That's the way I like IR.

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Kathi <pogo at pctwalker.com> wrote:

>DITTO!
>
>On 10/9/12 6:02 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes wrote:
>> Well, if the PCT becomes a mountain biking trail, I won't be renewing
>> my membership with the PCTA or donating any money. The mountain
>> bikers took over our local trails and turned them into war zones and
>> annoying places to be, cut down all the shade and made the trails
>> flat, smooth and boring. I'm sure the PCTA wouldn't care if all the
>> hikers left since there are way more mountain bikers, or at least it
>> seems like there are. Plus think of all that money they can get from
>> IMBA and from the motorcycle manufacturers that are really who
>> supports all this mountain biking stuff. Since everybody hates
>> mountain bikers, they have to make themselves look like stellar trail
>> workers with tons of phony photo-ops of fake trail maintenance and
>> lots of logged hours that count for nothing in reality. Fortunately,
>> despite all their noise, there do seem to be a lot fewer of them than
>> in the past, at least locally.
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>
>>> From: Ken Murray <kmurray at pol.net>
>>> Subject: [pct-l] bikes on the PCT
>>>
>>> In contacting Liz Bergeron, Ex Dir of the PCTA about the issue, and
>>> giving her a head's up that bikers might be contacting their Board
>>> members to pursuade them, she informs me that Board members have
>>> already been contacted.
>>>
>>> So, the bikers are taking this seriously, and already taking
>>> supportive action.
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