This was getting really bad off of the Legacy climb train in Squamish. Loamers, a new one each week, just carved down the hill off the climb trail. Not even snuck in around a switchback, and no camoflauge. So of course they get trampled by everyone.
One of those loamers doubled back on the climb trail - except it pointed you DOWN the climb trail. I almost got taken out by a couple Italian tourists DH types. As I dodged them, they assured me that I was not, in fact, on a climb trail (that I'd climbed a thousand times) and that they were in the right.
I do miss the days where we'd make the entrance a couple hundred meters past any official trail, over a log and a couple rocks so we'd limit the onslaught at least a little bit. Sure, it's "gatekeeping", but I'd take that over what we have these days.
Oct. 29, 2023, 2:07 p.m. - rotorburn
This was getting really bad off of the Legacy climb train in Squamish. Loamers, a new one each week, just carved down the hill off the climb trail. Not even snuck in around a switchback, and no camoflauge. So of course they get trampled by everyone. One of those loamers doubled back on the climb trail - except it pointed you DOWN the climb trail. I almost got taken out by a couple Italian tourists DH types. As I dodged them, they assured me that I was not, in fact, on a climb trail (that I'd climbed a thousand times) and that they were in the right. I do miss the days where we'd make the entrance a couple hundred meters past any official trail, over a log and a couple rocks so we'd limit the onslaught at least a little bit. Sure, it's "gatekeeping", but I'd take that over what we have these days.