Ascentrek
11-02-2005, 05:35 PM
All,
It embarasses me that I live in Golden now. My City council put a motion to advise Jefferson County NOT to allow Mtn biking on North Table mountain.
When I heard this (this isn't new news, but news to me today), was was blowing a gasket.
I called my City Council representative and asked her the details. Here's the short:
The City council listened to a group of people that wanted GOLDEN to make their official position known to the N Table mountain project. They (hikers) want to have all mtn bikers banned from any trail on North Table mountain. Only horses and Hikers allowed.
I asked her why the bikes were to be banned. I got a bunch of answers that only lead to prejudice pretenses.... here were her answers:
Mtn Bikers are annoying and rude. They don't yeild to hikers or small chidren (which could get hurt).... Funny with the 'kid' thing.
Mtn Bikers will tear up the environment and harm the trail.
Mtn bikers will disrupt the free flowing yoga that people often seek.
Mtn bikers have 125 miles of trails in jefferson county, hikers only have 12.
My Rebutal:
Actually, hikers have 12 more miles than mtn bikers do. Hiking can be done on all mtn bike trails
I asked her how many mtn bike only trails there were: her answer: none (reluctantly)
I then focused it to the state level: Hiker will always have more trails than mtn bikers. Wilderness, national parks etc.
Then I found out that Horses were allowed. I was mad, but held my cool
We all know that horses will cause more damage than anything. Turning around a horse will impact things other than the trail.
I left it with:
I feel that the Golden city council has extreme prejudice against mtn bikers, that's sad. I will attend the Open space advisory meeting tomorrow night to let them know that not all of golden feels that way. I also told her that since Golden was on the prejudice route, that they should only open up the trails to black people. She, of course, was appauled; I followed up with "now you know how I feel".
It embarasses me that I live in Golden now. My City council put a motion to advise Jefferson County NOT to allow Mtn biking on North Table mountain.
When I heard this (this isn't new news, but news to me today), was was blowing a gasket.
I called my City Council representative and asked her the details. Here's the short:
The City council listened to a group of people that wanted GOLDEN to make their official position known to the N Table mountain project. They (hikers) want to have all mtn bikers banned from any trail on North Table mountain. Only horses and Hikers allowed.
I asked her why the bikes were to be banned. I got a bunch of answers that only lead to prejudice pretenses.... here were her answers:
Mtn Bikers are annoying and rude. They don't yeild to hikers or small chidren (which could get hurt).... Funny with the 'kid' thing.
Mtn Bikers will tear up the environment and harm the trail.
Mtn bikers will disrupt the free flowing yoga that people often seek.
Mtn bikers have 125 miles of trails in jefferson county, hikers only have 12.
My Rebutal:
Actually, hikers have 12 more miles than mtn bikers do. Hiking can be done on all mtn bike trails
I asked her how many mtn bike only trails there were: her answer: none (reluctantly)
I then focused it to the state level: Hiker will always have more trails than mtn bikers. Wilderness, national parks etc.
Then I found out that Horses were allowed. I was mad, but held my cool
We all know that horses will cause more damage than anything. Turning around a horse will impact things other than the trail.
I left it with:
I feel that the Golden city council has extreme prejudice against mtn bikers, that's sad. I will attend the Open space advisory meeting tomorrow night to let them know that not all of golden feels that way. I also told her that since Golden was on the prejudice route, that they should only open up the trails to black people. She, of course, was appauled; I followed up with "now you know how I feel".