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Mountain Bikers Are Angry That Their Illegal "Stunts" Were Removedfrom Coe State Park (CA)
No wonder the parks need to be closed!
Mike Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:59:31 -0700 From: Ross Finlayson Subject: Timm Trail at Coe On Saturday, I rode down the Timm Trail at Coe (for the first time in months). At first, I was surprised to see that the top of the trail was starting to look overgrown; not many people had ridden it recently. And then I found out why: In recent months, someone has gone through and removed all (yes, all) of the little log jump thingys that had been found throughout the trail (and which had given the trail its special character). Now, as many of you know, I'm not a big fan of 'stunts'. Some of them are gratuitous, and I especially dislike the ones that are made from milled lumber (because I find them to be an artificial visual intrusion into the surroundings). And the especially difficult stunts make me angry, because I'm jealous that I'm too much of a wimp to ride them :-) But the little log jump thingys (they didn't really deserve the name 'stunts') on the Timm Trail were different: They were formed using dead branches around naturally downed logs, they were easy to ride over (and not dangerous), and in each case, there was an alternative way around if you didn't want to ride over them. To go through the trail and remove all of these seems petty and mean spirited. In the past year or so there has been too much petty sanitizing going on at Coe. This is the kind of crap I'd come to expect from Midpen. I expected better from State Parks, especially at Coe. Ross. |
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