Heli-ski is getting out of hand

[steveo10]

too many incidents, getting out of hand.

needs to be regulated or prehaps banned from the backcountry

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23704772

 

[sp_20022006]

I agree, definitely time to shut this down, I cant stop thinking about all those fuzzy bears being woken by skier caused avis

 

[CO 2.0]

Let people do what they want to do. They know the consequences. No need to "ban" anything like this. If everything remotely dangerous got "banned", we'd all be sitting in our houses with our thumbs up our...

 

[Scott]

Let people do what they want to do. They know the consequences. No need to "ban" anything like this. If everything remotely dangerous got "banned", we'd all be sitting in our houses with our thumbs up our...

I think the point of this post is more because the heli-skier outfit in Revy said that sledding should be banned in the backcountry because of the Revy avy last weekend. Stevo is trying to turn Mike Weigle's very own words back on him.

I don't think anyone on our side of the fence wants ANYTHING banned.

 

[steveo10]

I think the point of this post is more because the heli-skier outfit in Revy said that sledding should be banned in the backcountry because of the Revy avy last weekend. Stevo is trying to turn Mike Weigle's very own words back on him.

I don't think anyone on ourside of the fence wants ANYTHING banned.

ditto!

 

[94fordguy]

The problem is simply a matter of people trying to be too selfish and intolerant of other peoples chosen forms of recreation. Ourselves being such a tight-knit group understand what access means, but the skiers as a whole are too selfish to share what there is with anyone else... " What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine!"

 

[lexy]

I think the point of this post is more because the heli-skier outfit in Revy said that sledding should be banned in the backcountry because of the Revy avy last weekend. Stevo is trying to turn Mike Weigle's very own words back on him.

I don't think anyone on our side of the fence wants ANYTHING banned.

Correction Mike Wiegele is in Blue River BC....

 

[Scott]

Oh ok. Gotcha. I didn't know where he was from, I just knew it was in BC.

At anyrate...he went off about how sledding in backcountry should be banned.

 

[steveo10]

Oh ok. Gotcha. I didn't know where he was from, I just knew it was in BC.

At anyrate...he went off about how sledding in backcountry should be banned.

exactly... meant in general

mw's day will come!!!

 

[DOO DAWG]

The problem is simply a matter of people trying to be too selfish and intolerant of other peoples chosen forms of recreation. Ourselves being such a tight-knit group understand what access means, but the skiers as a whole are too selfish to share what there is with anyone else... " What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine!"

TRUE.....but most skiers are greenies
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