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Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition - Barbara McCrary

In our part of the country, and in a state park, it is environmentalists who can't stand to see their pure wilderness besmirched by bright-colored flagging.
 
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition

I expect it was hunters and I expect it had become a game. We got through the ride except for one turn that way the hell back in the woods they managed to get to. Most people figured it out but of course a few didn't.


Truman

Joe Long wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:56:19 -0800, "Barbara McCrary"
<bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  
Vandalizing of ribbons is fairly common and has been going on for a LONG
time.  On my first endurance ride, in 1971, someone not only removed ribbons
    
>from the correct trail, but re-hung them on trees going up a mountain.
  
After I had gone some distance (and following the tracks of other riders who
had been fooled), the ribbons stopped and I was hopelessly confused.  It was
in an area that just led me around in circles.  Finally, the drag riders
came along and helped me get straightened out.
    

I was flagging a trail for one of my rides one day, and when finished
was riding back along part of the trail I'd just flagged on my way
back to the trailer.  I came to a fork in the trail and the ribbons
had already been moved, to the wrong fork!  Then I came upon a couple
of guys in a pickup truck, and there were some of my ribbons in the
bed.

I said to them, "Say, if you see anyone pulling down ribbons from the
trees along here, could you ask them not to do that?  I'm marking the
trail for a trail ride here next weekend ... I'll take them down after
the ride."

They then admitted they'd been pulling ribbons down, and re-marked the
fork, because they thought they were ribbons put up by rival hunters
leading to a hunting spot!

At the Race of Champions one year, a resident near the trail kept
pulling down ribbons.  When ride management talked to her about it,
she indignantly told them that she paid a lot of money to live out
there and wasn't going to tolerate ribbons spoiling the view.  Ride
management had to send someone out just ahead of the riders to re-mark
the trail.

  

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We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only

because in doing so we learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.

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Replies
[RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition, Ridecamp Guest
Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition, Becky Rohwer
Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition, Barbara McCrary
Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition, Joe Long
Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition, Truman Prevatt