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Well said. It's an interesting issue here in Utah, too, although some land
managers and BLM/USFS are more strict than others. Southern Utah? Well, we've
been dumping shit into rivers and stuff down there for years, so it's
reasonably safe to say that nearly anything seems to go. However, in the
greater SLC area, we have a few illegal trails, some that are being legalized
now, and others that the wider community has just accepted as 'there'.
It's always been a fairly touchy subject here, but especially in more recent
years as the DH/FR scene in SLC and urban areas has reignited into a pattern
of growth; private, small-time petitions to the USFS and BLM to initiate the
legal trail building process have fallen flat while larger, corporate growth
attempts (ie, ski lodges at the top of Hidden Peak and chairlifts through
National Forest) seem to get pushed through without hindrance.
Does anyone in BC/surrounding areas find legal trail building more difficult
than logging/mining/corporate efforts? Or is the land leased in a similarly
generous way to everyone?
May 16, 2015, 9:53 a.m. - Amanda
#!markdown Well said. It's an interesting issue here in Utah, too, although some land managers and BLM/USFS are more strict than others. Southern Utah? Well, we've been dumping shit into rivers and stuff down there for years, so it's reasonably safe to say that nearly anything seems to go. However, in the greater SLC area, we have a few illegal trails, some that are being legalized now, and others that the wider community has just accepted as 'there'. It's always been a fairly touchy subject here, but especially in more recent years as the DH/FR scene in SLC and urban areas has reignited into a pattern of growth; private, small-time petitions to the USFS and BLM to initiate the legal trail building process have fallen flat while larger, corporate growth attempts (ie, ski lodges at the top of Hidden Peak and chairlifts through National Forest) seem to get pushed through without hindrance. Does anyone in BC/surrounding areas find legal trail building more difficult than logging/mining/corporate efforts? Or is the land leased in a similarly generous way to everyone?