[pct-l] Wilderness Act and bicycles

[Ron Northway]

The Wilderness Act may ban mountain bikes, but that has not stopped 4000+
people from organizing on Facebook: Wilderness B = Wilderness with Bikes
http://www.facebook.com/WildernessB

Hey this is my first post to PCT-L. I always thought it would be gear
questions that drove me to post, but here I am trying to defend the hiking
experience.

Best to all of you, where ever you hike.

Ron

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Ryan Christensen <yosemiteryan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Yes- the Wilderness Act bans all mechanical transport in the Wilderness:
>
> "...there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized
> equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of
> mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such
> area."
>
> http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=legisAct
>
>
> This has since been specifically interpreted to extend to bikes.
>
>
> The issue is not sections of the PCT inside designated Wilderness.
> Fortunately, they are permanently protected from the destruction bikes
> cause. The issue is the portions of the PCT outside of Wilderness.
>
>
> ProDeal
>
>
> http://www.facebook.com/SavethePCT
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: "jimniedbalski at aol.com" <jimniedbalski at aol.com>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:21 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Wilderness Act and bicycles
>
> I
>  won't get into all the arguments of the potential troll as identified
> by Brick, but the statement below (bikes should be allowed in WIlderness
>  as Congress intended) is interesting. Short of reading the full text of
>  the Wilderness Act, does anyone know if bicycles are specifically
> banned from Wilderness areas? Certainly motorized vehicles are, as we
> know, but does it ban self-propelled wheeled vehicles? I want to say
> they are banned, but in thinking about it I'm not 100 percent sure.
> Naturally, what Congress
>  intended, as opposed to what it actually passed, are two different
> things.
>
>
>
>
> ?- cyclists will use the PCT to go into Wilderness. ?Let me say that bikes
> hould be allowed into Wilderness (as Congress intended), but that's beyond
> the
> oint. ?Frankly, if a cyclist wants to go ride in Wilderness, that same
> person
> ill ride the PCT whether it's legal or not. ?So, legalizing the PCT will
> not
> hange whether cyclists go ride in the Wilderness.
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