boobytrapped trails/riding areas?

[heinracing]

has anyone came upon purposely put hidden dangers on the trail or in the back country this thread has got me thinking about this any stories or has it been pretty good?


http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=675271

 

[phatty]

yes i have come across wire and logs put purposely across the trail to stop motor vehicles at hi speeds. Also i have seen large holes dug in the middle of trails... environazis stop at nothing to rid the forests of everyone but themselves...

 

[heinracing]

i know from reading some of those stories that i will take it easy through trails that first been to that day and tight areas

 

[JHG]

This isn't really trail related but a rancher whose property boardered a river here in Bozeman got tired of the college students floating down the river and stoping on and littering his property. He strung barbed wire across the river and 20 year girl got tangled up in it. It tore her face up pretty bad. She now owns the ranch.


A riding buddy had ALL the lug nuts taken off his trailer last year up at taylors fork. They took the lug nuts with them.

 

[Bubba700]

I can honestly say me and the guys I elk hunt with have felled trees across "new trails" that guys have made because they were to lazy to get off their quads and hunt. I def don't condone booby trapping trails to hurt a guys. Had it happen to me in the foothills above IF in HS found 3 dif trails that we rode alot where some one had taken a bucket full of green head roofing tacks and poured them in the middle of the trail for 20 feet.

 

[Anti-Hero]

I have had my trailer lights unplugged, that just shows you how dumb they are!

 

[T-Bone]

I went to check on a well used trail last fall. The trail is basically a four wheeler trail going up through a meadow. Thinking they were smart, somebody filled the wheel ruts full of dead branches and timber. I guess they forgot about the other half mile of open meadow, or the fact that after a couple of storms all of the crap they piled in the ruts was snowed over.

 

[B C]

Does it count when the local Forrest Circus downs trees on an open trail? That should make for a good story, plus the pics the guys took turned out great!

 

[snowrodeo]

last winter, headed out of lake creek toward tower, found a wire strung between two quakies. wasnt necessarily on a main trail, and the wire was fairly thick. might have been a left over hanger of some sort from someones camp in the summer??? needless to say, we took it down and disposed of it.
have also found BIG holes dug in fire roads during the summer.
nice to know the greenies, in all their self-rightous furor, dont hesitate to maim or kill fellow human beings

 

[Supplicate]

saw some jackasses in the snowies last year trashing the trail. One guy would hold the sled in place while the rider romped on the fuel just so they could dig trenches across the trail. Got an idea on who it was but didn't get close enough to have any way to prove it.

 

[Snowizard]

I guess in their sick minds damaging the wilderness "for the greater good" (they think) is perfectly acceptable.

in Northeast MN there have been dedicated ATV trails with spike strips buried in the trail. Done by the same organization in the state that wants to cut off snowmobile trail funding.

 

[Jaynelson]

Stuff like that just boils my blood....I know everyone says it, but I'll say it again....I'd LOVE to catch a couple of these freaks in the act when we're out sledding or biking one day.

Even if it's your property, put up a damn fence if you absolutely can't risk someone coming onto it....stringing a wire at neck level is NOT protecting your property....it's flat out attempted murder IMO.

 

[ZL50068]

Stuff like that just boils my blood....I know everyone says it, but I'll say it again....I'd LOVE to catch a couple of these freaks in the act when we're out sledding or biking one day.

Even if it's your property, put up a damn fence if you absolutely can't risk someone coming onto it....stringing a wire at neck level is NOT protecting your property....it's flat out attempted murder IMO.

x2! If i were to see someone boobytrapping a trail, I would beat them to no end. greenies try to seem all nice and save the planet, but they are really just very fuc*ed up and disturbed people imo.

 

[M.M. 700]

saw some jackasses in the snowies last year trashing the trail. One guy would hold the sled in place while the rider romped on the fuel just so they could dig trenches across the trail. Got an idea on who it was but didn't get close enough to have any way to prove it.

Can't figure this one out. I mean they are snowmobilers???...they had a sled. Didn't they have something better to do, like ride the Fing thing!WTF

 

[Wade]

You think a greenie won't ride a snowmobile? They'll ride them if it shuts down snowmobiling.

That's why I've always said that if a few bad apples can routine it for all snowmobilers, greenies would volunteer to be those bad apple in a split second.

They took pictures of "ATV damage" here in the Boise National Forest, everyone is pretty sure the guys that made the damage, took the pictures, and then took the pictures to the Forest Supervisor.

Anyone that'll sit in a tree for a month, or make simulated love in the middle of the street, naked, for the animals, or set fire to SUVs is apt to do just about anything.

 

[travydog]

a neighbor put a big rock in the ditch next to his land and i was the lucky one to hit it totaled my sled and shaterd my left femor. With neighbors like that who needs enemys!!!!

 

[Rush44]

Rocks get piled at trailheads around here.... or trees are fell and tank traps are dug. I never have a problem getting around them.

 

[Killerk]

In high school we would ride our bikes in the foothills.
We didn't disturb people, and the only time we rode even remotely close to homes was a small area where the canal road ended... We had to drop down a trail and ride a 1/4 mile before getting back on the road.
I went by myself one day, passed that area with no incident, and was gone for an hour or so... On the way back I passed a small kid on the trail who was acting nervous and gave me a weird look.
I thought nothing of it and continued on... As I got in the trees on a narrow part of the trail I noticed a wall of rocks across the trail that were not there earlier... They were not very high, so I gave it some throttle to wheelie over them... Just then I noticed a guy off the trail colecting rocks... He freaked out and picked up a pitch fork and threw it at me as he rushed up to the trail... He barely missed my front wheel!
I reacted rather than thinking... I up shifted, dumped the clutch and pelted him with gravel... Another 30 yards up the trail there was another wall... I made it over it, but killed the engine... He was running up the trail yelling obsenities at me, so I took off.
I had a pretty good idea who it was.
I warned my friend as he lived close by and rode up there often.
A week later he was riding up there and stopped to take a leak... Next thing he knew someone was yelling at him from in the trees pointing a gun at him!
The guy came out of the trees and my friend was saying "don't shoot me, what did I do?"
The guy (whom we now know who he is) told my friend that riding in that area was illegal and to leave his bike and walk down to his house to call the cops.
My buddy told him he wasn't going to leave his bike, so they started walking down the trail to his house.
At this time my buddy noticed it was a BB gun, and started to mouth off to him.
They exchanged words, and my buddy was coasting on his bike... The guy let down his defense and my friend thought he could bump start his bike and take off... He skidded the rear wheel, and the guy started yelling at him to stop.
My buddy started the bike, took off, and got shot in the back by the BB gun!
He went home and called me.
I wish that 1 of us would have went with him and called the cops as I would bet he would have been in much more trouble than we would have been.
The same guy put stakes in a hill that mountain bikers use and is a popular sledding hill in the winter.
Yes, we should not have ridden there, but he was way out of line in his attempts to stop us.
He found out who and where we lived and after a ride one day he called to tell us next time we rode, there would be an officer waiting for us when we got back.

 

[snopropanther]

came around the corner on a trail and there was a huge pile of logs and stumps. there was a sign that said trail closed due to the possibility of orchids in the area. now remember there was 4 feet of snow on the trail. went back, phoned dnr asked them about it, they had no clue. took the quads, chainsaws, and opened the trail up again. found out it was one of the tree huggers that got a group to drive 5 hours to do it.

 

[lsmsrider]

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