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Re: [RC] Trail use - Carol Suggs

I hear ya Marshall!

We normally do some high country pack trips a few times a year, up near the
out skirts of Yosemite and Ansel Adams Wilderness areas and you would not
believe what we find on remote trails.  Some of these hikers just poop of
the side of road, don't bury their tp, leave stuff behind.  I can't tell you
all the interesting things that we have picked up on the trails before...

I don't want to generalize here, most hikers are not like this...however
there are a few groups who do not want to share the trails.  They have been
talking for years about shutting horses out of Yosemite...well I am not one
to want to ride right thru the valley of the park as when we go we really go
so as not to see other folks.

I am a dog lover, but can tell ya I'd rather see horse poop on the trail
than dog or people poop anyday!

ATV and bikes are taking up some of our local trails here and have been a
problem for our horse community.  Some are well mannered and shut down or
stop to allow us to go by, but there has been times where they just come
roaring right up on your butt and pass ya by.  Most culprits are minors and
I blame the parents for not instucting their kids on manners and common
sense.  We can turn them in to to the forest service station, but that ends
up being a hassle, and its hard for them to enforce stuff unless they
actually see it happening.

The good thing for me is that our horses are well used to motorcycles, and
ATVs!  When my nephew was little we used to go riding together.  Me on the
horse and he on his mini bike.  :)

Carol-Mariposa


----- Original Message -----
From: "marshall Bates" <muleman60@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: [RC] Trail use


It amazes me everytime I hike on the AT in both NC and
VA when I see the amount of toilet paper and human
waste along the trail. Hikers need to be a bit more
responsible also.
We have worked with the Forest Service for years on
trail maintainance and clean up on our horse (multiuse
trails) at Uwharrie and the Jefferson National Forest
and have had very little cooperation with local horse
people. The bike riders and ATV riders have done a
tremdous amount of work to ensure that the trails stay
open. A lot of horse people in this area take the
attitude that "I don't ride there so I don't care.".
One thing we have gotten good publicity with is by
sending pictures to the Forest Service of the amount
of trash we have picked up off the trails.



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