[pct-l] What do you say to mountain bikers on the PCT?

[JB de Anza]

Forgive me for being incredulous, but if you thought you were being kicked
off a 2,600-mile public trail for "some dumbass reason" then you would just
accept the rule, never bother to challenge the "dumbass reason" and just
get started on the 100-year process (as if it were even possible in the
current era) of building a separate trail? If so, you're a very special
kind of person.

My point is that unless we can put ourselves in the shoes of the people we
are trying to deal with, every solution we come up with will struggle or
fail. Every violator of the bicycle ban on the PCT is an individual, but
it's pretty clear that a lot of them think the PCT is closed for "some
dumbass reason" so how smart is it to think that just repeating that the
trail is closed is going to be productive?


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:

> c'mon, that won't happen because it IS (duh) a *foot* path.  But having
> said
> that, there are times when the PCT and other trails are closed for one
> reason or another (fires, floods, park shut downs, etc.) and yes I
> understand that and go along with it.
> But to your larger question, if something really strange happened and the
> PCT (or JMT or ....) was closed to foot traffic for some dumbass reason,
> sure I'd be unhappy, but I'd obey the law.   And start to work on a
> parallel
> trail that would be for foot traffic.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JB de Anza
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:56 PM
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] What do you say to mountain bikers on the PCT?
>
> So if tomorrow the PCT was officially closed to foot traffic you'd be just
> fine with that?
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:54 PM, JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JB de Anza
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:51 PM
> > Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] What do you say to mountain bikers on the PCT?
> >
> > "...how happy you would be if someone was
> > telling you to stay away."
> >
> > Darn happy if I wasn't supposed to be there.... !!
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