Re: [pct-l] Running on the PCT

["(R.J.Calliger)" <calliger@infolane.com>]

In  my marathon experience the sponsors are more than happy to
put a cleaning deposit down and pay a use-fee.  100 runners a running
do orders of magnitude less damage than 10 horses trotting.

Ban the horses is the best idea- have you seen the depth of those
horse tracks near many meadows? In another 10 years we won't be
able to see above the rim of the trail they will be so deep:))

The forest service will have you believe that it is the hikers casuing
the erosion of the trails (eg, see the famous Yosemite photo of the 4
hikers walking in 1 foot deep horse ruts implying it is many hikers
causing those ruts!!!)  when it is actually the horses.

THAT is why quotas were started in part.  If there were no horses on the
trails quotas for the rest of us would not be needed.

Fight the real damaging affects- horses..not hikers or runners!

Rich

At 9:53 AM -0800 10/11/00, Jeff Jones wrote:
>Howdy listers,
>I vote for allowing the races on the PCT.  I've run in a couple of
>marathons which partially used trails and the impact was minimal.  IMO,
>the biggest threat to the PCT is not users (hikers, runners, mountain
>bikers, and even equestrians) but encroachment, logging, and other
>industrial uses.  The more users and supporters of the trail the better.
>
>        Jeff Jones
>
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