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The current reality is that we both have legitimate uses that are incompatible. Three of us got first tracks in January down a slope in an area open to snowmobiles. At the bottom we met fourteen snowmobile riders, mostly middle aged and into their 60s. We enjoyed chatting, like other snowmobile riders they were just normal good folks. They were after powder, they had an equal right to it. We took 45 minutes to walk up the deep powder slope, but it was made a bit easier walking up as the fourteen riders packed it into trenched paths and enjoyed lapping it up and down on either side of us. However, the slope was then ruined for skiing downhill. They were just having fun, we met them again on top and chatted. But it is daunting to have that much mass and horsepower zipping up and down the powder slope that you are climbing. I think they were friendly and meant nothing ill toward us, but it was daunting to be a pedestrian in that traffic, and I do not believe that a rider realizes the effect when passing a skier. Oh, then we got first tracks on the next ridge, soon the snowmobiles followed our tracks again, the scenario was repeated.
We need USFS Management of the limited resource- powder snow and open slopes. We need USFS Management of incompatible winter recreational uses by the creation of new and significant winter non-motorized areas.
Thank you.
We need USFS Management of the limited resource- powder snow and open slopes. We need USFS Management of incompatible winter recreational uses by the creation of new and significant winter non-motorized areas.
Thank you.
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