[pct-l] bicycle class at Cascade Lockes

[Cat Nelson]

It is my understanding that PCT Days was for bringing people and businesses
into the  community of Cascade Locks,  not hikers. Hikers were invited to
view gear venders and spend money. The sponsors cater to bikers and
backpackers. The date was chosen to encourage tourism not a thru hiker
gathering or the date would have been earlier. As a committee volunteer and
visitor to the event  enjoyed all of it. But the purpose has been a
misrepresentation of the expectations.

Cat McPeek (SageGirl)
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On Oct 29, 2013 8:25 AM, "Danny Wormington" <dannywormington at gmail.com>
wrote:

>      At Cascade Lockes there is an annual PCT type event to celebrate
> the hikers of the PCT.  There are booths with hiking hardware and food
> and beer, and classes on various things  concerning the trail. I dropped
> in on one of these classes, a class on trail etiquette. In the class
> they said there were three main users of the trail. They drew a pyramid
> and put equestrians at the top and hikers and bikers on each side at the
> bottom.  Equestrians were at the top, they said, because both bikers and
> hikers had to give way to these animals.  Bikers, they said, were
> responsible to give way, in turn, to hikers.  There was one exception
> that I found interesting.  If a mountain biker is going down the trail
> too fast to stop then equestrians and hikers have to give way to the biker.
>       I have mulled this over since that class.  I guess that it makes
> sense to give a biker the right-of-way if he comes over a blind ramp and
> is five feet in the air about to land on top of you, but it seems
> strange to make it a rule.  Bicyclers have the right-of-way only if they
> are behaving incredibly stupid.  It also seems strange to have a class
> at a pct event that  factors in bicyclists as an integral part of the
> trail.
>      So here is what I learned.  1) bicycles are part of the trail
> 2)bicycles must behave responsibly on the trail  3)we must expect them
> to behave irresponsibly  4)bicycles who behave irresponsibly have the
> right-of-way
>
>      Danny
>
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