Today I took the girls up Green Mountain for a hike. I like this hike because few hikers are ever on the trail and the ones that are, are serious and respect the environment. Few know of the trails. Today I found one of the shortcut trails to the top was vandalized by mountain bikers. Trees were cut down, rocks pulled from the trail and moved (you know what that does? It starts new erosion). You could see freshly cut trees, branches and large rocks dug up and moved. There was the tale tale sign of mountain bike trails. This is a path that needs to be gently used, they now created a new potential wash out. This is a National Forest where cutting trees and moving large rocks is forbidden. Sad. Then when I got to the top there were what I call the "Beer Guzzling, Red Neck, Outdoorsmen" on their ATVs tearing up the mountain some more. Again this is an area that is clearly posted "NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES". This was a dad in his 4X4 Ford and his two kids following in their ATVs. From the looks of it they all needed to get out an walk, they all looked like they were pushing 300lbs. Why do people have to tear up the environment for their own selfish enjoyment? I took a few pictures of the area to remind me what it looks like before these idiots ruin it all. With all the rain we had last year, there is a lot of dead vegetation---those hot exhausts will surly set off a fire...
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