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It has just been brought to my attention (
actually from two distinctly different sources) that the ôRuboÆconö bypass (the deep ditch off to the side of the s-curve/ledge on Daniel) was an illegal use of the trail systemà
I quote verbatim from a PM that I received on another forum:
Smiley,
Please mention to your friends that just because someone else is using a "bypass" does not make it legal. Someone who knew the terrain should have been riding with Robo. People read this forum to point out illegal offroad activity to the USFS, so your thread got removed. IF you want to post it up again, and leave out the references to illegal bypasses, and keep images of the same out of the post, then you are welcome to repost. I know it is hard to know where to go sometimes, but that one was damned obvious. That "bypass" was just bushes and crap two years ago, and the ATVers cut it because they could not hack the ledge.
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I want to assure anyone and everyone that has viewed our photos that
we honestly had no idea that it was an illegal bypass! --- If we had known, we
NEVER would have let anyone use it, period.
Our group has earned a reputation for obeying the rules, mainly because we respect the
privilege of having somewhere to go 4-wheelingà Under no circumstances, whatsoever, would any of us ever knowingly disobey
ANY of the rules.
As such - despite the fact that the section was not marked or barricaded as a æno-goÆ - I have absolutely no intention of attempting to defend the transgressionà Instead, I am going to remove the photos in-question from this postà Additionally (as soon as I figure out how), IÆm going to do the same with the originals that are in my photo album.
The fact that we were unaware that the bypass was an illegal use of the trail
IS NOT a good enough excuse to leave the photos up and available for public viewingà Doing so would probably only encourage others to follow our bad example; thus further compounding the problem of illegal trail usage.
I want to take this opportunity to apologize wholeheartedly on behalf of our entire trail-group that day (whether they were involved or not), and offer the strictest assurance that it will
NEVER happen againà
In the future, if there is ever even the slightest doubt about a given section of trail, bypass, etc., we will err on the side of caution and avoid treading on it completely.
As I said, it is a
privilege for us to have somewhere to go 4-wheeling û and none of us wants to do
ANYTHING that would jeopardize that privilege in any way, shape, or form.
Cheers! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />
Smiley
