aaroncluff

It doesn't shock me that the person was 64 years old and clearly from the Baby Boomer generation, as they may be the generation that had the early builders but never embraced the sport like Gen X and onward did. I rountinely came across logs laid across trails when I lived on the North Shore in the 90's. Fisherman's trail that runs alongside the Seymour River (I was told it is now mostly boardwalk) frequently had logs laid across it, with clear indications an axe or sometimes even a chainsaw had been used. I don't know if Severed Dick is still a trail but that was another place I found logs cut and laid across the trail, and not logs you could get over with just your big ring grinding over. I find it ironic the picture is from Cumberland as I live in Comox now (Cumberland is part of the Comox Valley) and have just started to get back into Mountain bikes after years of road riding in Alberta. There are many retired Baby Boomers here that complain about mountain bikers on the local trails. Sharing is not in their nature unfortunately. It only takes one rider doing something foolish (in their eyes) to stoke the fires of their mountain biker hate. All we can do is re-build, try and be more courteous to other trail users and realize that eventually the Baby Boomers will die off.