Just when you thought it was safe

[balzaccom]

The trails around Ft. Ord near Monterey have a different way of discouraging you from creating new shortcuts--a few cases of unexploded ordnance.

I'm thinking this would work in the Sierra as well, where I spend some of my volunteer hours fixing the erosion caused by heedless hikers. Maybe this would make them less heedless.

Or maybe just headless.

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks ... 373922.php

[dave54]

I recall working a few fires around the Sierra Army Depot in Herlong. Every once in a while you would hear a loud POP from the interior of the fire. A few times we were pulled back, and just pounded it with water drops from helicopters.

Fun Times!

[Gogd]

The trails around Ft. Ord near Monterey have a different way of discouraging you from creating new shortcuts--a few cases of unexploded ordnance.

I'm thinking this would work in the Sierra as well, where I spend some of my volunteer hours fixing the erosion caused by heedless hikers. Maybe this would make them less heedless.

Or maybe just headless.

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks ... 373922.php

So is the proposal to randomly mine the terrain proximal to trails and warn hikers of the hazard, or just scare them with misinformation?

Ed

[balzaccom]

The trails around Ft. Ord near Monterey have a different way of discouraging you from creating new shortcuts--a few cases of unexploded ordnance.

I'm thinking this would work in the Sierra as well, where I spend some of my volunteer hours fixing the erosion caused by heedless hikers. Maybe this would make them less heedless.

Or maybe just headless.

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks ... 373922.php

So is the proposal to randomly mine the terrain proximal to trails and warn hikers of the hazard, or just scare them with misinformation?

Ed

Whichever works most effectively. Guard dogs might also play a role.

[c9h13no3]

Lol, that trail system is called the "Happy Trails", and they're not recent.

If land managers were hoping to keep bikers out with an SFGate article, I doubt many of them read.