The Pacific Crest Trail — restricted throughout its length to hikers and equestrians, with many sections hikers-only — has been repeatedly vandalized in recent years by Kern County off-roaders.
A Kern County local has posted some video of the destruction taking place. Video is safe for work, though not necessarily for late-1970s-pop-music-hating workplaces.
This is why OHVs need to have full-size license plates, with numbers easily capturable by a camera.
I’m sure the ORV community will happily stand up and declare how unacceptable this is. I mean the video. No doubt it will be seen as part of a conspiracy to take away their rights, to infringe on their hobby, to squelch their fun.
Then again I could be wrong. I’d love to see the community act responsibly by using this to swat its own membership and remind them that they are part of a larger community, and that they must be stewards of the privilege they have to ride where they’re allowed to do so by NOT riding where they’re not allowed to do so.
And in the middle when the biker is facing downhill: his turnaround in light of the camera was about as predictable as my next breath.
I can’t think of anything more constructive to say than “What a bunch of shit-heads.”
Come to think of it, that about sums it up, doesn’t it. Fecal matter where brains - and consciences - ought to be.
i wish i could share w/ you a couple of google earth placemarks - but i can’t figure out how to do it. if you search on google earth for ‘carnegie vehicular recreation park’, it will bring you to a fake location nearby the real location - which you can find a mile or two to the east of it. the real location is an enormous scar in the planet. this park is slated for a huge expansion - into one of the most ecologically sensitive areas within 200 miles of the bay area - the only known location for a large number of rare and endangered species. off road vehicle recreation has received an enormous amount of money to expand in many directions in california, and the whole thing is receiving very little publicity and plenty of whitewash. it makes me nauseous everytime i think of it - and the void of a response from my repeated requests to enter these public lands to do some botanical assessments.