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
Just when you thought it was safe
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Just when you thought it was safe
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Re: Just when you thought it was safe
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.
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Re: Just when you thought it was safe
So is the proposal to randomly mine the terrain proximal to trails and warn hikers of the hazard, or just scare them with misinformation?balzaccom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:46 am 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
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Re: Just when you thought it was safe
Whichever works most effectively. Guard dogs might also play a role.Gogd wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:56 amSo is the proposal to randomly mine the terrain proximal to trails and warn hikers of the hazard, or just scare them with misinformation?balzaccom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:46 am 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
Ed
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Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-R ... 0984884963
Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-R ... 0984884963
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Re: Just when you thought it was safe
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.
If land managers were hoping to keep bikers out with an SFGate article, I doubt many of them read.
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