"Bikers versus hikers: B.C.'s war of the woods"

By Nancy Macdonald | Maclean's - Fri, 23 Jan, 2015

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In 2013, B.C. authorities issued a warning after a rash of close calls with tripwires and booby traps: A Victoria mountain biker had his throat cut by a steel wire strung across a cycling trail. An eight-year-old girl was clotheslined on a Chilliwack trail. A labradoodle and then a jogger were snared by crude, ugly traps laid on the Grouse Grind, a popular hiking trail in North Vancouver. In Merritt, in B.C.'s Interior, a pipe bomb was found at the trailhead of a popular path used by dog walkers, hikers and cyclists. It was set to explode when the gate was opened. Across the border in Oregon, a psychiatrist pleaded guilty to assault in 2013 for stringing nylon cords between trees and planting nails in the ground. He told a forest ranger he did it because "he did not like downhill mountain bikers."

But the fight has been most heated on Vancouver's North Shore. There, a labyrinth of dark, wet trails over rotting trees, thick roots and hunks of granite have been cut into the mountainside, redefining what is possible on a bike and spawning a $30-million bike and tourism industry. Monica Craver says she has been repeatedly attacked online for her opposition to the encroachment of bikers onto area hiking trails, where they have damaged frog and mushroom habitat. Recently dubbed "the spawn of Satan" on Twitter, she has been the subject of online forums with titles such as "Monica Craver needs to get a life." "These bikers are bullies," she says. Craver believes the woman arrested by the RCMP was simply trying to protect herself and the trails she loves.

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On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 1:31:08 PM UTC-5, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
By Nancy Macdonald | Maclean's - Fri, 23 Jan, 2015

Excerpt:


In 2013, B.C. authorities issued a warning after a rash of close calls with tripwires and booby traps: A Victoria mountain biker had his throat cut by a steel wire strung across a cycling trail. An eight-year-old girl was clotheslined on a Chilliwack trail. A labradoodle and then a jogger were snared by crude, ugly traps laid on the Grouse Grind, a popular hiking trail in North Vancouver. In Merritt, in B.C.'s Interior, a pipe bomb was found at the trailhead of a popular path used by dog walkers, hikers and cyclists. It was set to explode when the gate was opened. Across the border in Oregon, a psychiatrist pleaded guilty to assault in 2013 for stringing nylon cords between trees and planting nails in the ground. He told a forest ranger he did it because "he did not like downhill mountain bikers."

But the fight has been most heated on Vancouver's North Shore. There, a labyrinth of dark, wet trails over rotting trees, thick roots and hunks of granite have been cut into the mountainside, redefining what is possible on a bike and spawning a $30-million bike and tourism industry. Monica Craver says she has been repeatedly attacked online for her opposition to the encroachment of bikers onto area hiking trails, where they have damaged frog and mushroom habitat. Recently dubbed "the spawn of Satan" on Twitter, she has been the subject of online forums with titles such as "Monica Craver needs to get a life." "These bikers are bullies," she says. Craver believes the woman arrested by the RCMP was simply trying to protect herself and the trails she loves.

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Forgot tthe URL to the article:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bikers-ver...195024583.html

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Canadians are barbaric violent backwoods barbarians.