[pct-l] Illegals on the trail

[Brick Robbins]

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http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/pct/home/?cid=stelprdb5361615

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Ron Graybill <rgraybill44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> At mile 8.8 on Saturday, March 2, I encountered four "illegals" southbound
> on the trail.  Southbound? you ask.  Yes, mountain bikers!  Three men and a
> woman.  I had collected my wits enough as the woman was about to pass to
> say: "You know you're not supposed to be here, don't you?"  "Yes, that's
> right," she answered nonchalantly.  I was able to follow their tire tracks
> all the way to Lake Morena, wondering darkly what a treking pole would do
> to the spokes of a moving bike or a couple of dozen carpet tacks to their
> tires. . . hmm, but my treking poles were expensive and I wouldn't want to
> bend them, and carpet tacks might puncture the sole of some hapless PCT
> hiker in trail runners, not to mention that either option might render me
> "illegal" for malicious mischief!
>
> P.S. I didn't see or hear a single Mexican, citizen or non-citizen,
> anywhere along that stretch of the trail, and I did camp overnight at Mile
> 11.
>
> --Manzanita
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