Re: [RC] [RC] [Guest] Hungry Buzzard Ride - Nancy Mitts
Joe,
What a ride manager's nightmare! It sounds as if you took the diplomatic
high road.
I'm curious as to whether you had to pay a fee to the Forest Service for
your permit, & a percentage of the entry fees collected. Did the other group
pay anything? Do you have any idea if they had to at least purchase a permit
after the fact? Was there any indication from the Forest Service that they
would take steps to avoid this type of problem in the future? Having rules
that aren't enforced is worse than no rules at all.
It has been a problem in other areas, too. Endurance groups are usually
pretty good about trying to jump all the hoops & other groups don't seem to
have to. Yet it is the group with the permit that seems to get blamed for
any damages, problems, etc.
Nancy Mitts
Joe Schoech jschoech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tamra and I want to extend our sincere apologies to those endurance folks
who were not able to find a suitable parking spot and decided to go back
home. Unfortunately, we and the Forest Service were surprised to find that
on this same weekend a local saddle club had scheduled a trail ride on the
same trails and at the same parking facility. I estimate that they had 60
folks attend their trail ride, with 40 trailers. Of the two user groups on
this public land, we were the only ones with a permit. We had posted
announcements of the ride, weeks in advance in all of the appropriate
places at the camp. We did not know of the conflict of schedules until
Friday morning before the ride.
Although the Forest Service did all they could to mediate the parking
dilemma, we simply ran out of room. A satellite parking area was
established, but that was filled up quickly. We appreciate all who were
willing to park ?uncomfortably? close to one another or the trees. We had
no trail-use conflicts due to the efforts of both the trail riders and the
endurance participants to this, we thank all of the endurance riders for
being good ambassadors of the sport.
_________________________________________________________________
Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online
http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp
Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp
If you are an AERC member - PLEASE VOTE in the upcoming By-Laws
Election!!!! (it takes 2/3rds to tango!!)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
