The Greens Lick, Blues

I received this email from Kevin Booth. Kevin was our leader on the IMBA / SORBA National Trails Day (reference this blog entry)

Kevin writes:

"Rode G.L. (Greens Lick) this morning and there has been some de-constructive work done to some of the rock armoring. The very first rock section has been almost completely destroyed (rocks removed and thrown into the woods) and what remains will surely become a huge mudpit. I can’t tell you all how frustrated I am right now. It’s not just the hard day’s work that went into making that section, but all of the effort that went into making N.T.D. happen. A lot of people joined together to do something really positive and 1 or 2 people decide that it doesn’t work for them… and they do something really negative. I’m guessing that these aren’t the type of people to be involved with trail building in any other way. As angry as I am about this, it just proves that:

1) The technical trail feature that was designed to get people’s attention at the start of a difficult trail…got people’s attention.

2) Unskilled riders are making it to the top of (and riding) Green’s Lick

As always, I enjoyed riding G.L. this morning, but our work there is not done. We’ll need to schedule some time in the near future to deal with this and other issues".

It's a sad commentary on riders that just don't seem to get it, or seem to care for that matter...What I have a real problem is understanding what experience the individual (s) that destroyed the rock garden were looking for? To even make it to the start of Greens Lick, it's a good 45 minute climb to the top, so you must be in some kind of condition in the first place. Mommy and Daddy won't be lugging it to the top on Huffy's. The downhill/Free ride crowd would probably love the more advanced technical skill level that the rock garden (s) provide. So who was it and what was their motive? We'll probably never know....

Unfortunately, the answer may be in numerous bags like this, hauled to the top...