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Good point.  I learned to ride with an expanding cane to pull the branch
down & clip, then release slowly so the ribbon didn't fly up & wrap the
branch.  Help with the sabateurs.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Kinsky" <lkinsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jonni Jewell" <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] marking tape and cloths pins


> > If you do tie your marking tape to clothes pins, to mark trail, don't
bother
> > if it is in an area that has a lot of pleasure riders, hikers, or public
> > access. Seems that the ease to unclip those clothes pins is just beyond
the
> > self control of some folks. I have seen more trails UNMARKED before a
ride
> > that used clothes pins, than rides that tied direct to the trees etc.  We
> > have even had clothes pin attached ribbons unclipped, and redirected down
a
> > wrong trail. <sigh> Folks who do that crap rate right up there with those
> > who create computer viruses. Don't they have something better to
do???????
> > Jonni
> That's the beauty of where we put on the two NATRC rides and last
> weekend's endurance ride -- it's all private ranches and the few
> miles of public trail is on a horse-only trail.  Our problem is
> cattle and deer -- both the ribbons and the clothes pins seem quite
> tasty to them.  In chapparal and scrub oak areas it's hard to get
> stuff up high enough so they can't eat it, so we also use dolomite
> (swimming pool filter material) on the ground at key turns.  Of
> course,  if all else fails the riders can consult their maps, which
> are topo maps with the course marked on it <g>.
>
> But I agree -- we had plenty of sabotage when we were still putting
> the rides on out in the national forest -- the only way I could slow
> it down was to put the ribbons (with or without clothespins) on
> poison oak bushes:  I'm not allergic so it didn't bother me (although
> I did a lot of ribboning/deribboning by myself <g>), but it gave the
> saboteurs pause -- or at least a bad rash.
> -- 
> Lynn Kinsky     Santa Ynez, CA
> http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky
>
>
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