[pct-l] Forest Service rejects efforts to rescind or restrict ban on mountain bikes on PCT!

[Lindsey Sommer]

Chris, I was just thinking the same thing... I feel like our
representatives have some bigger issues to worry about.


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Chris Anderson <srhspaded at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think our congressmen and senators have more important things to
> do...like nothing...but i guess it wouldn't help to let their staff know!
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________
> Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even
> though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who
> neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that
> knows neither victory nor defeat!
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Barry Teschlog <tokencivilian at yahoo.com>
> To: PCTL <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 5:34 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Forest Service rejects efforts to rescind or restrict ban
> on mountain bikes on PCT!
>
> This is great news.
>
> Remember however that this is but an opening move in what will be a
> protracted war by the MTB clown crowd to destroy the PCT with their
> mechanical transports (aka bikes).
>
> Do not become complacent.  If anything, NOW is the time to redouble our
> efforts to save and improve the PCT.
>
> Read their "sharing the PCT" page over there on FB.  It's pathetic.  In
> their sick, twisted minds, they have to ride (aka destroy) the PCT to save
> it, since it's underused and under maintained (their words, not the facts).
>  It's paraphrased as "well, if you let us ride it, a few of us might help
> take care of it and since it's so lightly used, it'll be over grown if you
> don't let us ride it".
>
> Hikers, stay focused.  Stay vigilant.  Write your member of Congress.
>  Write your Senators.  Write the USFS in DC.  Write them all to keep the
> PCT a wild, scenic trail where hikers and equestrians can walk in peace and
> quiet, free from squealing, fast moving, dangerous to hikers and stock
> mechanical transports (aka bikes) that will tear up the tread and ruin the
> experience for the other user groups.  Be sure to mention that MTBers, the
> people, are welcome on the PCT - if they leave their bikes at home and join
> us on foot or on horseback, as the trail is intended to be.
>
> The battle to save the PCT has only just been joined - we had best settle
> in for a protracted fight.
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Lindsey Sommer
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