National Parks Traveler

"we members of the HOHA (hateful old hiker association) love our parks to ourselves, and really really don't want to share with the "

Hi, Roger — None of those. To be precise, and in case I'm misunderstanding your question, I am a paying member of IMBA but not a paid member. I have no financial interest in mountain biking. I am merely an avid mountain biker who feels a strong engagement with the access aspects of our endeavor.

I would be glad to respond to some of imtnbks questions. But he also knows I can't answer most of them, and doubt anyone can without nationwide surveys. But before I try to answer them I think his bio should include more info on his interest in the issue. Is he a paid member of IMBA or some other mountain biking group. Does he have a financial interest in mountain biking?

I have a few questions to ask Roger, if he would be amenable to helping me to understand his perspective. Here they are: 1. You propose that mountain biking is too problematic for the national parks but suitable for nearby state parks. If mountain biking is too problematic in the one, why should it be allowed in the other?

Same old tired argument, there are other trails nearby, so leave us alone. Put another way, we members of the HOHA (hateful old hiker association) love our parks to ourselves, and really really don't want to share with the newcomers. So, instead of debating rationally, we are going to wax poetic about how cyclists are just a bunch of dangerous thrill seekers. It's rather pathetic.

Tammy: Great post!What I have noticed is that there are a significant number of people with some of the most experience in the backcountry and, truly, are at home in it and with themselves, just don't understand why so much has to be divisive. Kind of like a dysfunctional family that has lost it's way and risks losing everything. There are people out there that profit from the divisions.

Rick Smith How about the ride between Chinquapin and Glacier Point in Yosemite? It's hard to end up in a better place.

Many have told me that have seemingly been everywhere and done everything that the 17 mile Mule Ride into the Grand Canyon (Phantom Ranch) going down the Bright Angel Trail and returning up the ridge the South Kaibab follows to Yaki Point is the best ride and also the best thing they've EVER done. Something about being so humbled by the experience that it was transformational.

Let me see if I understand this.... we have turned the Colorado river system into a long, putrid lake system - altering it beyond belief and now we're worried about non-native fish?

The first sentence above is the only thing one needs to consider in this debate. Trying to simulate the conditions for the native species under the current circumstances is a joke - either blow up the dam or let the trout live. At least that way people can have some fun fishing as consequence of the giant atrocity committed on the Colorado by the Glen Canyon Dam.

Like to make a correction. Bright Angel Creek where active trout eradication has been going on is about 26 river miles below the confluence of the Little Colorado with it's warmer waters and not 80 River miles as I stated.

It's not the Espada Aquaduct at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Parks. I do see why you came up with that.

It's probably too late but I want one more try. Here goes. The Espada Aquaduct at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Parks.