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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Sure, but is that much different than you not actually owning the lawn in front of your house (in the city easement) but you still put effort in to take care of it, and probably get pissed when dogs leave dead grass patches and feces you have to deal with?
If a group has decided they don't want a particular something on something they built with their time and money, would you not respect that? Like "huh, fair enough, I'll go ride over here" even if you think the exclusion is irrational? Have you looked into the reasons why they don't want e-bikes to see if they are actual rational reasons you hadn't considered? I know you have changed our mind on many topics around here when people explain the reasoning(and many you have not!) so just curious if you have looked into it. And I don't know all the logic for every trail, either. But I'd love to never see the throttle only ones again on the Legacy Trail.
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I haven't looked into it. No clue on the rationale. I'm open to hearing it, but honestly, those trails just aren't over run at all. I usually run into a couple guys on my rides and that's it. There's really no opportunity to engage with anyone on this for me. And I actively try to not make friends in Canmore, so I don't have a social circle there where these things would come up. And pretty sure my friends in Calgary would smack me if I nattered on about my Canmore cabin woes, so I just kinda stfu about topics like that when I'm home.
I just don't like the people in the mountains for the most part. They're all so entitled and smug. Totally irks me.
I was camping with my friends on Tunnel mountain a few weeks ago. I bought the largest hammock in the world a couple years ago, and we always try to fit as many people as we can in it until it breaks, and then I fix it. Anyway, the kids brought it into the woods behind our site to set it up. I'm quite conscientious about not hurting nature (believe it or not) so have made giant straps to go around trees to hang the hammock without damaging the wood. Somebody a few sites over complained that we were drilling into trees (we weren't) and called the ranger. He came by, I showed him the trees and how we were being careful to not damage anything and just said he probably has a couple of Karens on his hands. Well, that part was fine, but then he lectured us on how the kids moved a fallen tree out of the way (it would have been under the hammock so they carried it 10' away). Nope, we're #######s because a mouse could have been living under that tree and we're not to disturb nature.
It's like, fk off to all these mountain freaks trying to gatekeep how we use nature. I'm allowed to move a fking log. I'm allowed to exist in the park. I don't need a ranger telling me not to move a piece of wood. I don't need a Karen saying I can't hang a hammock. I don't need a random guy telling me which trails I can ride and which ones I can't. It's like I cruise around literally leaving everyone alone. Why tf are so many people so hell bent on enforcing dumb made up rules all over the mountains? It's crazy. We play on a pin-prick sizes dot of the mountains and people are just way too protective and lame about their use. Let me have fun and quit bothering me is what I have to say to those people.