As I approach 50, so much of this sounds like me. I shake my fist at the clouds. The older I get the more I get annoyed at illegal trail building. As you have stated, we (the mtb community) should know at this point that pissing off land owners, private or public, only leads to closing, banning, downright hate towards us. The Kingdom Trails in VT lost out on a chunk of trails due to a group of a$$-hats feeling like they owned the trails...and the rumor is the landowner was verbally berated on their own property because they were snowshoeing (or something like that). It can take a very long time to get permission for building a trail, and that can be frustrating. What I would like to see in my local area is that people actually work on maintaining what we have so it lasts. Rant over.
Oct. 26, 2023, 5:43 a.m. - Offrhodes42
As I approach 50, so much of this sounds like me. I shake my fist at the clouds. The older I get the more I get annoyed at illegal trail building. As you have stated, we (the mtb community) should know at this point that pissing off land owners, private or public, only leads to closing, banning, downright hate towards us. The Kingdom Trails in VT lost out on a chunk of trails due to a group of a$$-hats feeling like they owned the trails...and the rumor is the landowner was verbally berated on their own property because they were snowshoeing (or something like that). It can take a very long time to get permission for building a trail, and that can be frustrating. What I would like to see in my local area is that people actually work on maintaining what we have so it lasts. Rant over.