"G.T." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:...
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"Sorni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:JD said:G.T. wrote:
> http://www.2fortheroad.net/cannell06/cannell06.html
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> Much thanks to JD, Bill Porter, and Bill O'Neil for the photos. I
> just wanted to get a little taste out there before Porter and JD put
> up their ride reports.No RR from me on that trail. I was thoroughly disappointed in most of
it, due to its being thrashed first by motos and then by skidiots.
The first section we rode was nice, as was past that big meadow and
before the skid-o-rama.Now that's sad. It was great a few years ago, as I imagine Porter would
attest. (They really allow /motorcycles/ on that trail?!? Criminal.)My mind is a little foggy but I believe he said he didn't remember the
middle section being whooped out and torn up. I have to confess, I rode
the
Quoted message said:section between Big Meadow and Sherman Pass on a motorcycle in 1977 or
1978.
Quoted message said:It was open then but ours were the only motorcycle tracks and we didn't
see
Quoted message said:a hiker nor any mtn bikers that day. The bonus section up to Sherman Peak
and the section from Big Meadow out to Kernville is closed to motorcycles.
Oh, the reason the trail is so impacted by motos now as opposed to then is
because in the 70s we didn't have Barbara Boxer turning traditional improved
areas with roads into wilderness areas. The Sequoia National Forest map I
have actually still has 5 jeep roads listed as such in the middle of a
recently added on to wilderness area. The motos are now shoved into a
microscopic section of the southern Sierras.
Greg