[pct-l] A PCT nightmare

[Lindsey Sommer]

Yep, that sounds about right.

This is all pretty depressing. I finally get a chance to go back to grad
school and FINALLY have a summer off to do this, and this happens, what
luck!

It will be interesting to see how this all goes. There still just seems to
be a huge safety issue that hasn't really been addressed. I find the idea
of hiking and having someone barrel down a hill or around a corner really
disturbing and scary.

I suppose there's still the AT? :) (Hopefully?)

Cheers,
Lindsey

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> So Piper and I went out to a restaurant this past weekend. Our favorite
> restaurant is Patty's Cafe and Tavern, or as we like to call it, PCT. We
> had been planning this for a long time and saved up for it. We got a
> reservation so we would have a table at the front with a great view. We had
> just gotten our menus when a mountain biker roared into the restaurant,
> squealed the brakes on his bike and jumped it up on our table.
>
> MTBer: Wow, what a great view form here!
> TH: What the heck are you doing?
> MTBer: I'm sharing. This view is awesome!
> TH: I really don't think you're supposed to be doing that.
> MTBer: Sure. I pay taxes just like you. I have every right to be here.
> TH: Well, maybe if you parked your bike outside and came in like everyone
> else does. You think this is sharing?
> MTBer: Why are you so negative? I think we have a lot in common. We both
> love this place and this view. We're all after the same experience.
>
> With that he jumped the bike off the table, sped through the restaurant,
> down the handicap ramp, almost knocking an old man out of his wheelchair.
> He tore a long narrow line out of the grass on the front lawn swung the
> bike around leaving a visible scar. Back into the restaurant he rushed and
> back up on the table.
>
> MTBer: Wow, I just love this place don't you? Everyone is so friendly. It
> really gets the adrenalin flowing, doesn't it?
> TH: I don't think you're supposed to be in here with the bike. I don't
> think what you're doing is legal. I think I need to talk with the manager.
> MTBer: Talk to the manager if you want. Doesn't matter what he says. Me
> and my buds have been meeting secretly with the owner and he's thinking of
> letting bikes in here starting next year. And if that doesn't happen, we'll
> still come in here because as Americans we have rights to go any place you
> go.
> TH: Like I said; leave your bike outside and you're good.
> MTBer: Why do you have such a problem with sharing?
> TH: Sharing is when you have something and you offer it to others. When
> you just come in and take something without asking that's called stealing.
> MTBer: Whoa, you have a serious problem dude!
> TH: Is that a helmet cam? Are you recording this?
> MTBer: Yeah, gonna post it to YouTube. I want my buds to see my epic ride.
> TH: But it's illegal. Don't you worry about people seeing that?
> MTBer: Downer again dude. But I feel we have a right to be here, so it's
> cool. My vid will get all my buds excited about helping to make this place
> multi-use. Then we can all share this great experience.
> TH: That will totally change the experience for all other users. And I
> don't think I want you recording what I say.
> MTBer: Thanks! Gotta go now. See you on the trail!
> TH: Arrrgh!
>
> Or maybe it just seemed like that happened. I woke up with the chills of
> what was to come.
>
> TrailHacker
>
>
> --
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> Abraham Lincoln
>
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