It sucks but if they’re multi-use trails you just have to deal with it.
Substantial_Tough289 on
No, hikers do whatever they want.
In my area some trails (groomed or not) are snowshoe, xc ski and fat bike only and all you see are foot prints.
jfhair on
If you come up with one, let us know!!! 🤪
CorporalTedBronson on
Unfortunately, post-holers are NPCs and will do as programmed.
evilhomer3k on
No but I do like your sign.
sns1294 on
Unless the land manager is willing to patrol and fine, you can’t fix everyone. Education through signs, posts on Facebook groups, encourage snowshoes, etc. might help. A lot of people are just oblivious to why trails are groomed and some just don’t care.
Stukisha on
Encourage bikers to run low pressure and groom leaving ‘deeper’ snow seems to work for my local MTB park. Apparently hikers & runners don’t like wet feet.
No-Menu-5104 on
Leave a few sets of snowshoes hanging on a sign saying, “Consider snowshoe-ing. Lets see how nice we can make these trails for everyone”
matt_msu on
Last year on a muddy ass day right before spring we had two people on horses go thru the trails. It was awful.
KJL_3519 on
I’ve pretty much given up. You have to go to the extreme measures by placing giant signs on every possible groomed trail entry. And even then you will get one runner who worked on a trail 6 years ago saying he volunteered so he can use groomed trails to run on no matter the condition. Sorry, if I come off bitter… Best you can do is try and educate as many folks as possible. Provide alternative trails if possible. Be prepared to regroom postholes. If your trail system is open to it, make the trails fat bike only and provide some trails for hike, snowshoe etc. Good luck.
k3rnelpanic on
My local club started grooming parallel trails where possible and put up signage to mark one as multi-use and the other as fat bike only. It’s probably stopped about 90% of the problem. There is someone that seems to be doing it on purpose and has been removing the signs.
306errr on
we have signs up, the city put a sign up. No one cares.
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Good luck with that! Maybe hungry wolves.
It sucks but if they’re multi-use trails you just have to deal with it.
No, hikers do whatever they want.
In my area some trails (groomed or not) are snowshoe, xc ski and fat bike only and all you see are foot prints.
If you come up with one, let us know!!! 🤪
Unfortunately, post-holers are NPCs and will do as programmed.
No but I do like your sign.
Unless the land manager is willing to patrol and fine, you can’t fix everyone. Education through signs, posts on Facebook groups, encourage snowshoes, etc. might help. A lot of people are just oblivious to why trails are groomed and some just don’t care.
Encourage bikers to run low pressure and groom leaving ‘deeper’ snow seems to work for my local MTB park. Apparently hikers & runners don’t like wet feet.
Leave a few sets of snowshoes hanging on a sign saying, “Consider snowshoe-ing. Lets see how nice we can make these trails for everyone”
Last year on a muddy ass day right before spring we had two people on horses go thru the trails. It was awful.
I’ve pretty much given up. You have to go to the extreme measures by placing giant signs on every possible groomed trail entry. And even then you will get one runner who worked on a trail 6 years ago saying he volunteered so he can use groomed trails to run on no matter the condition. Sorry, if I come off bitter… Best you can do is try and educate as many folks as possible. Provide alternative trails if possible. Be prepared to regroom postholes. If your trail system is open to it, make the trails fat bike only and provide some trails for hike, snowshoe etc. Good luck.
My local club started grooming parallel trails where possible and put up signage to mark one as multi-use and the other as fat bike only. It’s probably stopped about 90% of the problem. There is someone that seems to be doing it on purpose and has been removing the signs.
we have signs up, the city put a sign up. No one cares.