In defense of Cindy, I would mildly point
out that the term “bulldoze” does
sound rather… um… harsh when used in connection with the
Great Outdoors… Perhaps the words “improve” or “repair”
would have been better. J Written first impressions are almost as misleading as visual
first impressions! J Now, everyone sit back with a big bowl of ice cream and
relax!! ;-)
Signed,
A Bemused Bystander ;-)
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Walker Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009
5:13 PM To: Ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] re: AHA
championship trail
Ah - good. Exactly my point (though I don't live in that area
either). :) It depends on the trail.
On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:00 PM, LOUISE BURTON wrote:
OMG. Please don't diss things you don't know
anything about.
The small dozer is probably 6 feet wide. The
trail HAS to be dozed and packed so it can be brushhogged. Why?
Because the entire trail was becoming a single track deep RUT. As
Meghan said, it is still every bit as beautiful and scenic as always.
Maybe you should ask Jan Jeffers, manager of the
ride, what the trails were like before they worked on them. She will
tell you that 80% of them were only doable at a jog, unless you didn't want
your knees.
If you don't live in this area, you have no idea how
to manage our trails.
From: Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC] re: AHA championship trail
To: "Ridecamp Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:24 PM
Yes, well, so is the
Beartooth highway and the Highway 14 up Shell Canyon, but I don't want to
ride an endurance ride on them, either. Sounds to me like someone
willfully destroyed a wonderful, single track trail just so an elite group of
riders could gallop. I realize I don't know the whole story, but just
the thought of someone "bulldozing" a trail so you can gallop is
very sad to me. Cindy
"I said they bulldozed it but that does not mean that the trail is still
not beautiful"
