Why has Pink Starfish been decommissioned?

I waste too much time on teh internetz, but regardless of what actually went down, it's interesting to note just how much time the extremely vocal minority have to stir the pot, whether it be locally or worldwide. This letter for example and the comments below. I gave up on reading the comments due to it being too mindblowing for words:

http://www.northvancouverpolitics.com/2016/04/controversial-letter-and-dnv-public.html

And then there's good old Mikey V and his list of dead mountain bikers:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.mountain-bike

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY MONICA!

She took so much pleasure in Mark Wood's injury. Check her twitter

I waste too much time on teh internetz, but regardless of what actually went down, it's interesting to note just how much time the extremely vocal minority have to stir the pot, whether it be locally or worldwide. This letter for example and the comments below. I gave up on reading the comments due to it being too mindblowing for words:

http://www.northvancouverpolitics.com/2016/04/controversial-letter-and-dnv-public.html

And then there's good old Mikey V and his list of dead mountain bikers:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.mountain-bike

Wow

i had no idea nsmb was a bunch of anti-semites. you bad, bad people!

quite amazing that people can be so delusional. sad.

https://twitter.com/MECraver/status/756182895409061888

https://twitter.com/MECraver/status/756182895409061888

Did one of you guys steal MECraver's boyfriend a long time ago? This person certainly seems a little annoyed at mountain bikers. Must be kept awake at night at seeing how popular it's become.

On the warpath? Nope - I just asked why Pink Starfish had been decommissioned. I didn't realize it was such a contentious topic for so many people…

Luckily MECraver is in the minority. Every hiker I see on Fromme is very friendly. The typical response on Baden Powell is "how on earth do you ride that, we have difficulty hiking it!" :)

https://twitter.com/MECraver/status/756182895409061888

Her twitter account is actually a pretty comprehensive source for MTB news and articles. Followed. Thanks Monica!

Did one of you guys steal MECraver's girlfriend a long time ago?

ME Craver = Monica Craver, a married woman with children.

Did one of you guys steal MECraver's girlfriend a long time ago?

MECraver is actually a woman. It's the person people here call Monica and she is also referred to as the "frog lady". her fight against mtb'ers is supposedly an environmental one for the protection of the forests, particularly on mt fromme. however, she is unable to rectify the irony that the lot her house sits on has been carved out of the very hillside that claims to protect.

Thanks. Post has been updated appropriately. There is more mountain bike info on her Twitter account than on here lol.

She must spend hours posting her smear campaign.
Must get tiring.
Her twitter is quite hilarious.

She must spend hours posting her smear campaign.
Must get tiring.
Her twitter is quite hilarious.

she is tireless

But we can take comfort knowing that between her and the late Ernie Crist (RIP), their efforts to ban mountain biking was perhaps the strongest force that united mountain bikers and empowered the nsmba to develop the relationships with the land owners that we have today. Without Mrs. Craver's tireless campaign to portrait the sport as an equal to open pit mining, mountain bikers would have likely become complacent and we might have lost out. Now with strong representation and financial grants, trail building on Fromme is stronger than ever…and legal. So we all actually owe Monica some thanks. Without her it's possible we wouldn't have the parking lot, bike wash station, washrooms and paid trail builders. She's actually done more for mountain biking than most.

she is tireless

But we can take comfort knowing that between her and the late Ernie Crist (RIP), their efforts to ban mountain biking was perhaps the strongest force that united mountain bikers and empowered the nsmba to develop the relationships with the land owners that we have today. Without Mrs. Craver's tireless campaign to portrait the sport as an equal to open pit mining, mountain bikers would have likely become complacent and we might have lost out. Now with strong representation and financial grants, trail building on Fromme is stronger than ever…and legal. So we all actually owe Monica some thanks. Without her it's possible we wouldn't have the parking lot, bike wash station, washrooms and paid trail builders. She's actually done more for mountain biking than most.

:lol: the irony

Splinky made a cameo appearance on her twitter feed!

Splinky made a cameo appearance on her twitter feed!

was he offering to make her a ham sandwich for lunch?