A very small group of volunteers maintain the Wharton trails. We routinely spend many hours fixing the winters trail tread damage(read: sugar sand sections). The damage (sugar sand sections) is caused by riding the trail before it has a chance to drain.
This is known issue to anyone who has maintained trail at Wharton or other sandy parks (read: Allaire). The learned solution, to minimize the effort needed to repair, is to let the trail drain for a day after a soaking rain. This is frequently mentioned in the Allaire posts on this forum. We Wharton volunteers feel that is not too much to ask.
As for the reference to Frank McGuire's article in Dirt Rag. It was McGuire that wrote that the DE riders get upset that PA riders ride DE trails in unsuitable conditions. It was also McGuire that wrote these same PA riders should head east to the pines when conditions are unsuitable. The problem is... is that if conditions are bad in DE, theres a 50/50 chance that they are bad in Wharton too. It was not my intent to throw PA riders under the bus. I only wanted to point out the ill concieved logic in McGuire's article.
Not sure why Ken didn't reach out to me or uncle Pibbles (who didn't say or post anything negative) before replying on our behalf.
This is known issue to anyone who has maintained trail at Wharton or other sandy parks (read: Allaire). The learned solution, to minimize the effort needed to repair, is to let the trail drain for a day after a soaking rain. This is frequently mentioned in the Allaire posts on this forum. We Wharton volunteers feel that is not too much to ask.
As for the reference to Frank McGuire's article in Dirt Rag. It was McGuire that wrote that the DE riders get upset that PA riders ride DE trails in unsuitable conditions. It was also McGuire that wrote these same PA riders should head east to the pines when conditions are unsuitable. The problem is... is that if conditions are bad in DE, theres a 50/50 chance that they are bad in Wharton too. It was not my intent to throw PA riders under the bus. I only wanted to point out the ill concieved logic in McGuire's article.
Not sure why Ken didn't reach out to me or uncle Pibbles (who didn't say or post anything negative) before replying on our behalf.
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