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PageRob
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 859 Location: Page, Az.
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Meeting people on trails can be fun, but I'd rather be on a trail with just some close friends or by myself, and see no one else. Then again, I get asked tons of questions all the time by random strangers when I'm hiking with my telemetry gear, so I may have a perspective different from others here. _________________ Anywhere is within walking distance if you spend the time. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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I like it all. I like to hike with friends. I like to hike solo. I like to hike cross country where there is no one. I like to hike on easy trails and hard trails. I like meeting people on the trail and chatting. I like hiking all day on a trail and not meeting a soul. It's all good. It's hiking! |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: peoples on the trail |
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GringoDiablo wrote: |
Kinda odd! I like seeing people on the trails. It's fun to chat, meet people from all aro und the world. Share stories and adventures. Last hike met a father daughter team, the father went to the same Led Zepplin concert I went too in 1977. |
I like meeting people on the trail too...when I'm on a meeting people trail. Solo hikes in wilderness settings are spiritual though. I dig both.
If you remember a Led Zeplin concert in 1977 you did something wrong. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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FalconGTHO
Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 30 Location: West Valley
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Well, actually, I wasnt aware of that. I saw "Dont Bust The Crust" signage at various places in the National Parks I visited on my May vacation. With an explanation of the "cyanobacteria" on the signs.
As for the rest, the impression from the post was that you go "off trail" regardless of legality, but carefully and conscientiously nevertheless. Forgive my misunderstanding. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm. I haven't come across signs like that in any of the parks but I guess it certainly would aply.
No, my intention is/was not to correct any misunderstanding, it was to answer your original inquiry with an important introduction to minimal impact/tread lightly. You did inquire. I guess I could have answered with a "No, it is not illegal to hike cross country in the vast majority of public lands".
I don't think you really mis-understood me. If everybody who ventured into these primitive public lands were as well versed as the people on this site then there would never be legislation restricting foot travel in any but the rarest occasions. I think it is important that no more people than a land can handle be regulated by permit but if the Forest Service closes 150,000 acres because idiots with little reguard burn them down, I'd leave my stove at home and march right on through. I care about mother and this planet about as much as it can be cared for.
Don't pay much mind Mr Falcon. There's a lot of passionate people in here. Welcome aboard. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Matt Hoffman
Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH
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Posted: 8/6/2007, 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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FalconGTHO wrote: |
Well, actually, I wasnt aware of that. I saw "Dont Bust The Crust" signage at various places in the National Parks I visited on my May vacation. With an explanation of the "cyanobacteria" on the signs.
As for the rest, the impression from the post was that you go "off trail" regardless of legality, but carefully and conscientiously nevertheless. Forgive my misunderstanding. |
The signs you saw were probably warning you not to step on the cryptobiotic soil. http://eduscapes.com/nature/cryptsoil/index1.htm
It is a living organism and apparently it is important to the enviroment.
As others have said, it depends on where you are whether you can go off trail or not. Most wilderness areas permit off-trail travel. Even in the Grand Canyon, you can go off trail. But at South Mountain Park, you will see many signs forbidding off-trail hiking for "habitat rehabilation" or something like that. Hiking off-trail is certainly not illegal; just make sure you are allowed to do it in the area that you are in. _________________ "Your day-glo ballet days are over." Ancient chinese proverb.
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 8/7/2007, 9:43 am Post subject: |
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In Rocky Mtn National Park you have to stay on trail in desinated areas only. Most of the park you can roam freely where ever you want to. _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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GringoDiablo
Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Mohave Valley
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Posted: 8/7/2007, 11:11 am Post subject: something wrong |
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Sorry for the cut in not sure how to answer IGO's reply: No that one was alright! It was a couple of years later in Germany had tickets to see them again. Got too drunk on the train and ended up at a holding station on the East German border! |
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FalconGTHO
Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 30 Location: West Valley
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Posted: 8/7/2007, 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Matt Hoffman wrote: |
The signs you saw were probably warning you not to step on the cryptobiotic soil. http://eduscapes.com/nature/cryptsoil/index1.htm
It is a living organism and apparently it is important to the enviroment.
As others have said, it depends on where you are whether you can go off trail or not. Most wilderness areas permit off-trail travel. Even in the Grand Canyon, you can go off trail. But at South Mountain Park, you will see many signs forbidding off-trail hiking for "habitat rehabilation" or something like that. Hiking off-trail is certainly not illegal; just make sure you are allowed to do it in the area that you are in. |
Yep, thats it. And no, I thought "Stay On The Trail" wasnt just good advice, or a suggestion, but law. I need to make sure what I can and cant do next time I hike somewhere. Sounds like Im missing out. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 8/7/2007, 6:59 pm Post subject: Re: something wrong |
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GringoDiablo wrote: |
Sorry for the cut in not sure how to answer IGO's reply: No that one was alright! It was a couple of years later in Germany had tickets to see them again. Got too drunk on the train and ended up at a holding station on the East German border! |
That's more like it! _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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