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a clarification on my post about illegal mountain bike trails

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Subject: a clarification on my post about illegal mountain bike trails
From: con <>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:54:54 +1100
Hello everyone

In my last post I referred to runners who were disturbing wildlife on O'Connor Ridge. A COG member has raised with me the issue was whether it is OK for mountain bikers and runners to use firetrails.

My view is that the fire trails are generally well designed and maintained and should be available for runners and mountain bikers to use. It seems to me that this is a useful and reasonable approach to balancing various community interests in the reserve system.

As a matter of interest, the runners I observed on O'Connor Ridge were not always using the fire trails, the 'informal trails' or even the illegal trails. Some groups were simply crashing across country. It looked to be a competitive event which involved finding points in the forest. The illegal trails, which have been built to meander extensively, simply to not provide the shortest distance between points A and B. So some of the runners did not keep to them.


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