Good point. I spent most of my early riding days in Halifax worried about the "damage" to the trails.
Then the city council made a secret deal to swap the pristine parcel of land that had the trails on it to a developer. Within a few years that whole place had been blown to bits and gorgeous granite bluffs turned into parking lots and shitty apartments.
The same thing has slowly happened to me in most of the places I've lived. A few ribbons of trail in the front country really doesn't register when compared to the kind of things going on elsewhere. Etiquette is good, as is ensuring friendly relations with other trails users, but it's easy to go way too far with this.
Oct. 29, 2023, 2:13 p.m. - rotorburn
Good point. I spent most of my early riding days in Halifax worried about the "damage" to the trails. Then the city council made a secret deal to swap the pristine parcel of land that had the trails on it to a developer. Within a few years that whole place had been blown to bits and gorgeous granite bluffs turned into parking lots and shitty apartments. The same thing has slowly happened to me in most of the places I've lived. A few ribbons of trail in the front country really doesn't register when compared to the kind of things going on elsewhere. Etiquette is good, as is ensuring friendly relations with other trails users, but it's easy to go way too far with this.