May 13, 2015, 7:58 a.m. -  Lee Lau

#!markdown A note too on "a trail is built on government land (owned, controlled and managed by the state or local government) without permission or legal right to do so.". This is commonly referred as unsanctioned building. This isn't referred to in your article but comments on this topic will frequently deviate to something like blah blah .. don't build without permission… blah blah times have changed. A note that the majority of trails in Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton are unsanctioned. Almost every trail in the Fraser Valley and the Okanagan is unsanctioned. A little less than half of the trails on the Shore are unsanctioned. People who demonize unsanctioned trails or builders of those trails would throw out a large part of our trail systems