Re: [RC] [RC] Hunting Season - Nancy Mitts
Last year while hanging ribbons for the Turkey Trot I came across a couple
guys with bikes in their roof rack pitching a tent right next to a trailhead
in a meadow. They had as much right to camp there as we had to ride there. I
didn't ask or even suggest that they move. I explained what event was
planned in the area for the next 2 days. They packed up and left. It was the
prudent and wise thing to do, no matter what their "rights" were. By the
same token, I avoid riding the trails they have marked when they have their
bike races.
Yes, officially I can ride during the eleven days of deer gun season. I
choose not to because it is the prudent and wise thing to do. It beats being
dead right.
Nancy Mitts
That aside, and I know this is really a radical suggestion here, but I
thought the original discussion was about not being able to ride in the
woods and forest during hunting season for fear of getting shot. Haven't
we gotten way, way off topic? Doesn't anyone think that it's possible -
just theoretically talking here, let's not all get upset because I might be
trying to change any minds - but doesn't anyone think that it's possible
that it *should* be OK to ride in the woods and forests even during hunting
season? Am I really the only RideCamper who thinks that people with guns
should be *gasp* more careful than perhaps some of them are? And that
maybe refraining from riding in the woods or forest, which of course is
prudent the way things are these days in order to continue being able to
send emails to RideCamp, might not ultimately be the *only* solution, that
maybe the people who are - dare I say it - actually causing the problem
(the ones who sometimes pull the triggers and shoot riders and horses)
might be somehow the ones to look at change their actions rather than the
victims?
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