Cuzican is not keen on the exposure that something like the crowsnest crawl will bring to the region and OHV activities. I partially understand his concern but I also feel that if there is not more exposure to our activities then we stand little chance of gaining any support.
Anyway, NDP would be bad news for our back country activity. Not sure there is a lot to their platform that is very appealing in my eyes.
I am very aware of the negative exposure the Crowsnest Crawl will have. Especially an activity that is advertised with dates before it is even planned or vetted with the authorities responsible for the area. I don't expect it will receive the TFA's - provided they have even been submitted - the bad part is that lack of TFA's and authorization will not prevent the many people who have planned their vacations around the activity from coming anyhow. Significant effort has been put into repairing trails and the potential trail traffic from a proposed Moab style seven day event will have a significant impact on the trails.
If it can't be done properly it shouldn't be done at all - if the planning is not done up front it has started out wrong - I know as Dave Hubert contacted me about some of the issues and wouldn't tell me why he was asking. Only afterwards did I realize what he was putting together. Carefull consideration of the potential repercussions are required at the planning stage.
If it's not clear my feeling is the Crowsnest Crawl has the potential to cause more damage to our sport in Southern Alberta than the SSRP.
I can only hope that the organizers will be held financially responsible to repair any damages that occur based on activities occurring on the proposed dates.
This might not have been the right post for me to bring it up on, but the comments on water crossing and SSRP just got me going on several points. At least I did not get carried away and vent about how fumed off I am that the JK was introduced to the marketplace. If that minivan grocery getter hadn't been developed there'd be fewer of us running around in older jeeps drawing less attention to ourselves and a greater likelihood that we could sustain the existing trail system. Now people don't need to know how to build a jeep anymore they can just use their credit card and right away they think they're ready for the trails.
BTW I'm blue through and through and I don't want Alberta to change one little bit.
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