We are Skagit local Baker regulars from Anacortes as many of you know. We have introduced a lot of people to the area, helped a lot of people get unstuck, and have been members of the club and SAR in the past. We also hike up during the fall and move a couple of tons of rocks to keep the creek xing better (have you noticed how there has been no drop down to the water in the last few years).
Unfortunately I have to call out a group that showed up today even if that means I'm a DIK (which I am)! We ride up...no tracks up the creek. We see a group of 8 down at the bottom of the creek (keep in mind this is like 10:30am). We bust up the creek and lay 3 tracks up Sulfer on the left with a nice "down track" on the right. Within 90 seconds this group of 8 shows up and immediately start trenching trenching the "down track". One of our group drops in to try to get away from the madness and one of the other group literally follows him up Sulfer 20' behind his bumper...our guy turns out and guess who is right F$#@#$ng there? Near collision!
We decide to just get up as high as we can and try to side hill across before it gets stupid trenched and 1 buddy makes it, the other washes out and gets stuck in a giant trench. The "others" keep climbing the same trench even though he is stuck about 20' from the top and 1 guy comes withing 5' of hitting him! Another near collision! I was soooo pissed I did the same thing to one of the other group because I wanted to get away from them so bad...not a good choice as I could have cut an avy on him
A true moment of weakness and I apologize.
We finally get over Sulfer and decide we should head FAR right to give them and us some room. NOPE. They follow our lines exactly and even though we skip dropping down into 2 or 3 canyons.... they have to come over and down exactly where we are 10 minutes after we get there!
Seriously, there are 20,000 acres of riding area and only 11 of us on the mountain today....can you PLEASE stay right off our arsk? If we are trying to break a trail and you pull up with your turbos, can you PLEASE take a minute to see what we are doing before you totally destroy it and try to kill our friend? Once we are out there, if you see us down in an area, can you PLEASE just move on to the next area rather than swarm and burn? Can you PLEASE make your own tracks? Show some class and give people some room. Most of us sled because we don't want to be stuck in the lift line with the idiot masses and that's exactly what you brought to what would have been a great day of riding
Unfortunately I have to call out a group that showed up today even if that means I'm a DIK (which I am)! We ride up...no tracks up the creek. We see a group of 8 down at the bottom of the creek (keep in mind this is like 10:30am). We bust up the creek and lay 3 tracks up Sulfer on the left with a nice "down track" on the right. Within 90 seconds this group of 8 shows up and immediately start trenching trenching the "down track". One of our group drops in to try to get away from the madness and one of the other group literally follows him up Sulfer 20' behind his bumper...our guy turns out and guess who is right F$#@#$ng there? Near collision!
We decide to just get up as high as we can and try to side hill across before it gets stupid trenched and 1 buddy makes it, the other washes out and gets stuck in a giant trench. The "others" keep climbing the same trench even though he is stuck about 20' from the top and 1 guy comes withing 5' of hitting him! Another near collision! I was soooo pissed I did the same thing to one of the other group because I wanted to get away from them so bad...not a good choice as I could have cut an avy on him
A true moment of weakness and I apologize.We finally get over Sulfer and decide we should head FAR right to give them and us some room. NOPE. They follow our lines exactly and even though we skip dropping down into 2 or 3 canyons.... they have to come over and down exactly where we are 10 minutes after we get there!
Seriously, there are 20,000 acres of riding area and only 11 of us on the mountain today....can you PLEASE stay right off our arsk? If we are trying to break a trail and you pull up with your turbos, can you PLEASE take a minute to see what we are doing before you totally destroy it and try to kill our friend? Once we are out there, if you see us down in an area, can you PLEASE just move on to the next area rather than swarm and burn? Can you PLEASE make your own tracks? Show some class and give people some room. Most of us sled because we don't want to be stuck in the lift line with the idiot masses and that's exactly what you brought to what would have been a great day of riding
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