Experiences with greenies while sledding!

[straight-shot]

Tell us your stories about your experiences with greenies while sledding. Could be on the trail, in the parking lot, at the restauraunt, or at the bar at night.

The few times I have seen skiers on the trail I slow way down and wave and they have always waved back. Same with some sled dog teams. Always seem friendly.

How about the rest of you?

 

[H20SKE]

With a total experiance at 100% of contact with greenies--

10%--nice and very understanding--nice people.

90%--RUDE and unmannered--No understanding of another persons hobbies and does not believe we have a right to be out there in the same woods with them.

Difference of a enviromentalist and a developer?

The enviromentalist has a house in the woods

The developer wants a house in the woods


H20SKE...

 

[SNOW JW]

Never one problem on a sled but tons of problems on ATV's and Bikes

One guy on horseback tried to run his horse into us and block the trail was a total ***. Someone had a old FS sign that said closed that they put up but we ALWAYS go off the travel plan so we had to show it to him he then calmed down a bit because the trail was open.

Have to say this has been 90% of our problems is closed signs in places were it is open to ride.

 

[BackCountryBob]

In Colorado all trails are CLOSED unless posted OPEN

BCB

 

[straight-shot]

I was in Cooke city a couple years ago and after riding we went to the bar. There was about 75 sledders there and 1 guy that just didn't fit in! Your typical enviro nazi about 25 to 30 years old. He started openly bit***** about sledders and how telling everyone they shouldn't be out there! Everyone put up with it for about an hour until a college kid went over and shut him up HARD! Mopped the floor with this guy!
After everything calmed down the bartender threw the greenie out! College kid thought he was out too and would be in trouble but the bartender said "no big deal, he was just causing trouble anyway. Besides that the closest law is 50 miles away!" Drink on!

I love a happy ending!

 

[pernikm]

Just because someone is a skier does not make them a greenie so be careful. I towed a skier friend up Ben Lomond peak above Ogden UT when it was open. His friends set out at 5 in the morning for the climb. We started at 10. We caught them about 100 yds from the top and my friend pitched out beer from a six pack as we passed them. It was hillarious. The real danger are the greenies that aren't on the mountain. The ones at the closure meetings, in congress etc are the bad ones...My friend almost took a wire to the neck on Monte Cristo once but saw it at the last minute. Haven't decided if it was malicious or just a cloths line or something someone left behind.

Karl

 

[Dobber1]

Same with some sled dog teams. Always seem friendly.

How about the rest of you?

We have a couple mushers who are club members, actually show up to meetings, & donate their time, dogs & guides to our annual Handicap Ride. (Club gives rides to physically & mentally handicapped/challenged people, their families & counselors then provides a BBQ picnic for everyone and a Polaroid pic to take home)

 

[pinit]

here is my take about greenies they drove there in the gas burning car left form their wood built house and wiped their a** with paper just like the rest of us. so unless they live in a steel shipping contaner and wipe their a** with barb wire they can shut the hell up

 

[570MC]

Sled doggers are cool with me never done anything to piss me off. If the skiers dont get out of my rode when they are on my can side i just lay my sled over and buzz the **** out of them. I may just have to get a louder can

 

[sdobbs20]

never really had any problems personally. heard through the grapevine some stories though.

when we pass skiers or x-c skiers i normally wave or give an exaggerated nod that i acknowledge them.

 

[Clarke673]

Every time i see a skier i slow down to 5 mph and pass waving and nodding. I have had people flip me off, block trails. We found a snowman up on top of a hill once and as a joke we put a burnt up sparkplug on him (every snowman needs a well located sparkplug...ERECT lol) and we put this old crappy Polaris hat on him that we found a few days earlier on the trail.

When we were coming back down they had letter wrote in the snow that said snowmobiles and bush suck satins c**k. Not joking.

Around hear we have tons of problems. Not to long ago some greenie blocked off a road used to kill Park buffalo on with a Subaru. The guy cemented himself into the car...The trucks drove around him and killed like 17 buffalo LMAO.

Because of death threats, the government vehicles that haul buffalo need a 3 car FBI escort. That’s how bad it is around hear.

 

[evil1]

never had any trouble unless i deserved it,,I've realized everyone enjoys the outdoors in different ways,,most of my troubles with greenies have been when i go seal hunting of newfoundland,,Don't knock it till ya try it!!

 

[steveo10]

For all of the pot-smoker hippies in B.C its not so bad!

 

[The Fourth Wolf]

The real danger are the greenies that aren't on the mountain. The ones at the closure meetings, in congress etc are the bad ones
Karl

Absolutely dead spot-on!

Most of the non-motorized folks in AK are polite out on the trail. 99% of the sledders yield right of way when it's safe. For mushers, most of us pull off the trail and kill the motor as a courtesy to the dogs. Almost always the mushers nod and wave or mouthe "Thanks".

Karl nailed it. The other side has the activist mentality in spades. Make no mistake, they are fascists, which is why we need to join and support our local clubs and state orgs and sledder orgs like SAWS.

Sorry, but running at skiers a la "playing chicken" or laying it over to give them a blast of can noise is dumb and only cements their determination to destroy us. As the old saying goes "Walk softly (Ride) and carry a big stick."

Our big stick is numbers and getting involved.

 

[stem]

In my 20 years of riding I've only met one really bad greenie, we where 7 sleds with familys out for a fish n' grill tour when one guy on skies in the middle of the trail stopped us all, the front sledder said good day and asked if he could please step out of the trail for a coupple of seconds so that we could pass, he didn't even reply. When the first sledder tryed to go around him(outside the trail) he put his ski pole out to stop him. This was enough for the first sledder so he stopped, took the pole form the guy and broke it in 3 places, sat himself on the sled and drowe off

 

[spomey]

The best greenie story ever

well maybe this guy wasnt a greenie but this is still priceless. My dad was playing in a meadow tracking up the whole thing when a xc skier is just waving and cussing him out like crazy. My dad a pretty damn big guy (but that desnt matter in this story) pulls up the to the skier to see whats up. the skier chages his tone immediately. and is all pensive, and politely complained that my dad was crossing their xc path and that made it harder for them to navigate. My dad really had no idea so he agreed to watch out for the trail. only at the end of the conversation did he realize he had parked on the guys ski tips and the the dude was just barely able to keep standing up from leaning forward so much, he couldnt have backed away and was basically trapped...that is some funny chit right there...

Pernikm posted earlier in this thread about someone just barely catching a white 14 guage wire at neck height. that was me. I really could have been a clothsline left from a camp, but damn the placement of it (the road split around two trees) and the wire was on one of the splits. could have been really bad, also up farmington in Utah I did catch a clothsline that took me off my sled but that one was my fault (sort of) I was riding past a snowed in cabin. I took it down (cut it) if it was your I appologize but thought it might save the next rider. If you have a cabin please take them down.

 

[Tackbtch]

Absolutely dead spot-on!

Most of the non-motorized folks in AK are polite out on the trail. 99% of the sledders yield right of way when it's safe. For mushers, most of us pull off the trail and kill the motor as a courtesy to the dogs. Almost always the mushers nod and wave or mouthe "Thanks".

Karl nailed it. The other side has the activist mentality in spades. Make no mistake, they are fascists, which is why we need to join and support our local clubs and state orgs and sledder orgs like SAWS.

Sorry, but running at skiers a la "playing chicken" or laying it over to give them a blast of can noise is dumb and only cements their determination to destroy us. As the old saying goes "Walk softly (Ride) and carry a big stick."

Our big stick is numbers and getting involved.

Spot on, around here , we have lots of em, I have come across them on the trail , we each are respectful of each others rights to be there. I have never had a problem on the trail, however have had some very heated conversations with a few greenes in town ...gassing up at the store...most of them don't ever get out in the woods at all and never in the winter. Not a clue what they are talking about and only know the B.S. that is feed to them. Hope my luck in the woods continues for I wouldn't tolerate much out in the bush Dino

 

[mcgyver]

also up farmington in Utah I did catch a clothsline that took me off my sled but that one was my fault (sort of) I was riding past a snowed in cabin. I took it down (cut it) if it was your I appologize but thought it might save the next rider. If you have a cabin please take them down.

How bout asking for permission to ride on private property first, and then the owner could tell you he has a couple clothes lines up to watch out for!


what happened to asking for permission? I find tracks all the time around and behind our cabin in island park and to be honest, it pisses me off!!

 

[adrenaline junkey]

How bout asking for permission to ride on private property first, and then the owner could tell you he has a couple clothes lines up to watch out for!


what happened to asking for permission? I find tracks all the time around and behind our cabin in island park and to be honest, it pisses me off!!

Why i certainly understand you being upset why not put up some signs that say private property? I been up there playing in the trees only to come upon a cabin that i didn't even know was there. either turned around or made our way around it best we can.
I can honestly say I haven't had any run ins with anyone most times when we see them we wave and they wave back but I'm sure there will come a day

 

[stuckchuck]

I had an experience with a wire once. I live in AK now, but grew up in Vermont. Tons of greenies. We lived in a small subdivision aways out in the country that had a gated entrance. I was about 14 or 15 and I would ride my dirtbike about three miles to a buddys house that was right next to the school bus stop. I would always ride around the side of the gate on my way to and from school. I admit, it left a noticeable trail next to the gate of a nice subdivision, but hell, I was 15. One night on the way home I was going around the gate as usual and just got blasted off my bike. Had no clue what happened. While I was trying to pull my chit together I noticed someting shiny tied to the gate. Someone had run what looked like bailing wire from both gate posts into the woods about chest high. When I got home and told my father what happened, he knew exactly who had done it. This was 15 years ago, but I clearly remember the cops taking my dad to jail that night for beating the guys ***. The wire was gone the next day, but about a week later there was a sign posted that said no riding around the gate. Victory for the greenies.

I still have friends in Vermont, but it seems I only go back now for weddings and funerals. Unreal what a liberal place that is.