On 21/08/11 5:57 PM, Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

A reasonably-truthful argument can be made that

bicycles (as a group) do a LOT more damage to the trails, especially
when riding on the trails during the rainy season. Unless you want to
start seeing signs banning bikes from all the single track in many parks
for the entire rainy season (which happens quite a bit for horse riders)
you might want to get off that "high horse" about damage to the trails.
It can come back to bite the biking community very hard.

The manure horses leave on the trail becomes fertilizer for the park.
The ruts that bicycles leave on the trail becomes a morass, or become
erosion channels that can cause tremendous damage in a single day's rain.

jc