[pct-l] PCTRI response to the Forest Service upholding PCT mountain biking closure

[Ken Murray]

I AGREE with the biker position, as outlined in this letter.

Don't blow a gasket.

I agree with this, because going through an exhaustive process, involving lawyers, facilitators, advocates and everything else will result in a PERMANENT, crystal clear ruling on the issue.

I believe the legal position is that strong. I am not afraid.

I also think that putting the bikers through that process will sap their resources tremendously, and significantly damage their advocacy organizations.

When individual bikers discover that they were misled, and their money was spent on crazy unrealistic goals, they will quit in disgust. Right now, they are being fed an unopposed diet of misinformation....sort of like the Tea Party.

Plus, the higher profile emerging from this very public process will make it virtually impossible for scofflaws to plead ignorance.