Its pretty obvious: He is waiting for someone else to do it so he can copy and paste it like everything else.
Now Yamadawg..there are a ton of things that sledders can do to help sledding. I am sure most clubs will tell you that there are more things and work that needs to be done than there are volunteers to take care of. There are a lot of trail maps made by volunteers of Clubs and all the little orange diamond reflectors that have to be put up every year. Long story short we need to help out in our own backyard before any energies should be wasted trying to help other groups that have plenty of people and money.
Just take hiway 97 for example through Cle Elum to the Big Y near Peshastin. There are a lot of outlets at FS road ends that have NO room for snowmobiles and some with signs that say no snowmobiles...there are tons of areas for skiers. Rob...I skied since I was a small child growing up in Colarado it was just a way of life. I only quit after I was invited to snowmobile (a couple years later when the knees would not cooperate). I have skied a ton thru the Clockum to Blewitt pass area...there are all ready more skiable areas with no or extremely little snowmobile pressure that this whole concept is ludicrious. It isnt worth the energy to help sombody that already has a bigger toy box than you have.
Give me three good reasons why anybody should submit to the fraudluant tactics of these want it all organizations. WMC is completly in alignment with WWC and many others that want nothing more than to increase Wilderness more and more all the time. It is those same groups that want to shut down snowmobiling all together! Rondondee/WMC is trying to keep an area to himself that is right next to the wilderness only to make it so much easier to get there without working to hard.
Rob, Public land means Public acess...not personal acess. These splinter groups need no help...all you have to do is go to any of their web sites and see the money and time that they pour into thier agendas.....they have huge lobbyist groups...Just Look at the Sierra Club alone; unrestricted net worth has increased by more than $16 million. In 2000, the Club's total revenues were $73,941,700, and total expenses were $69,279,900. These fiscal year figures demonstrates their position as a vigilant self indulgent protector of the environment.
Then there are so many other groups working in parallel similar to WWC/WMC that it is scary. Before you talk about helping out the poor backwoods people like WMC please look at all the different organizations that are working against you and I! Here is just one example;
http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org/media/pdf/wra_ar2006final.pdf They are headed our way my Friend. Just look at their corporate sponsors alone ( think about this before you buy your next HP product). The financial backing these groups have is huge..money is never ending for them including powerful law firms. They have the legal clout and ability to go to the supreme court if needed. There are many groups like this and wwc that have big and I mean millions of dollars big that are lobbying and filing legal lawsuits every day that will move your Ski-Doo and My Polaris right into the garbage dump.
The money that goes to the very few snowmobile groups is chump change in comparision. In fact WSSA has to downright beg for donantions to fight for our rights to ride on public land. Between the possible ORV rule to the Lynx exapanded off limits areas to the continued expansions of WA wilderness land the skiiers have tons of land and many more acres in the works.
Plese Rob and anybody else: Before we consider helping out the not so poor special interest groups we need to have a clean back yard. Lets help our own problems and if there is anything else left then and only then look at other insights. My analogy would be of a father that spens many hours helping other peoples children while yours are at home needing help with no one around because their Fathers focus was misaligned and when he come home his energy is exhausted and his own family is the one that gets hurt the most and ends up paying the price for all the years to come.
When is enough Wilderness enough? This Obamanation will aprove more and more. Then these splinter groups want to have more and more additional non Wilderness areas set aside for their personal use agendas. My God Rob..The Wilderness in this State alone is well over 4 million acers and still growing!!!! Not to mention all the other things in the works to shut you down all the time.
I think IMHO it is more than time for Snowmobilers to come together and join the fight to protect what little areas we have. If you cant get involved with BRC or WSSA or SAWS then at a minimum donate a dollar or two or three! We need to get the troops organized more efficiently for land issues along with of course grooming and snowpark issues.
Keep in mind that a large tract of land in Washington doesnt always have that much accessabe terrain for snowmobilers as a simple map would suggest, due to heavy forestation and extreme verticles and limited parking access. ..unlike land in the Rockys of Idaho..hence we get into limited funnels on the snow as everyone knows. Look at Gold Creek, Baker, Bear Paw etc...you are trapped between freeways and roads with Wilderness boundries, off limits ski areas etc. We really dont have as much accessable terrain as people would like to think not to mention snowpacks that have a lot of freeze thaw cycles with high moisture content that makes snow more of an ice field at times. This tends to really hinder the snowmobile usage.
. Ok..work to do so Im off the soap box.
BTW Rob..you and your Cle Elum friends should have BBQ at the BBQ compition next year. I was at the Pork in the Pines" and you guys have most of these wantabees beat hands down!!
