I've racked my brain over the last 36 hours or so trying to think of ways to educate the hordes of beginners, and seemingly seasoned riders of proper trail etiquette, and I'm at a loss.
I went Sunday to walk the lower part of blue (the bad parts) to see what shape it was in to maybe ride the afternoon and I was blown away with what I saw/heard. Not only were there tons of people riding that clearly had no idea of the sport on everything from full dh rigs to dicks sportinggoods cruisers (which is fine in the sense that everyone starts somewhere and they simply may not actually know any better) but there were plenty of people with legitimate mtb's and the skills to boot.
The latter group wouldn't have even been that bad if it wasn't for many of them blowing right through the mud pit between the bridge and where blue and red meet. Somebody put a 2x6 there to cross and yet some still chose to go right through the mud or even worse tried to go around it.
I've tried to do my part of clearing trails of logs, trash, and blocking off the exponentially growing number of "cut off" paths that bypass existing sections, but this is all minor compared to the level of work some of you have done to make it what it is, and I'M frustrated. I cant imagine how you all feel.
I'm sure I'm voicing what has already been said on here or over beers after rides, but I just wish there was more that could be done to curtail the uneducated masses.
FWIW
Cheers
I went Sunday to walk the lower part of blue (the bad parts) to see what shape it was in to maybe ride the afternoon and I was blown away with what I saw/heard. Not only were there tons of people riding that clearly had no idea of the sport on everything from full dh rigs to dicks sportinggoods cruisers (which is fine in the sense that everyone starts somewhere and they simply may not actually know any better) but there were plenty of people with legitimate mtb's and the skills to boot.
The latter group wouldn't have even been that bad if it wasn't for many of them blowing right through the mud pit between the bridge and where blue and red meet. Somebody put a 2x6 there to cross and yet some still chose to go right through the mud or even worse tried to go around it.
I've tried to do my part of clearing trails of logs, trash, and blocking off the exponentially growing number of "cut off" paths that bypass existing sections, but this is all minor compared to the level of work some of you have done to make it what it is, and I'M frustrated. I cant imagine how you all feel.
I'm sure I'm voicing what has already been said on here or over beers after rides, but I just wish there was more that could be done to curtail the uneducated masses.
FWIW
Cheers