<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Greetings,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This reads like something from someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. What are you the list's latest troll?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>J J</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Lars Nilsson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy">Someday there is going to be an amendment to the Wilderness Act that could be wide enough to drive a Mack Truck through. Someone is going to sue for access to wilderness areas using some form of wheeled vehicle because of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some judge will rule in that plaintiff’s favor, and voila, motorized wheel chairs will be permitted. Of course they will have to be modified to travel further than a battery will allow and to traverse rough terrain (wheelchair mounted on a Jeep chassis, capable of the Rubicon Trail).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy">Rubbish? Tell that to various places that now have to allow for more than the seeing-eye dog – they have to accommodate companion animals some doctor has prescribed to some emotional/mental need of that animal’s human companion.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy">For the record, I am not advocating unregulated access by Humvee’s or bicycles. I just think that sometimes if we in the hiking community are seen as being too strident and unyielding we might find ourselves being run over by those more vocal and with more access ($$$) with law makers. And at the pace I hike, I’ll probably be the first speed bump.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><ST1:PERSONNAME w:st="on"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial="" rounded="" mt="" bold""="">Lars Nilsson</SPAN></FONT></ST1:PERSONNAME><O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt">TrailSnail</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></P> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";color:windowtext"=""> </SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>