Letter from Paul Brown
Motorized Recreation – September 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
I wholly concur with Hal Walter’s desire to keep motors off our National Forest trails. I have never understood how anyone could derive pleasure from screaming up a trail under a noxious cloud of gas and the roar of an engine. The riders don’t even look at the scenery.
I have had similar bad experiences with encounters between pack stock and motorheads. I lost the use of a pack llama for one season after a motorcycle screamed around a corner on the Rainbow Trail and spooked the llama, causing him to buck his saddle off. The saddle cut a deep gash into the animal’s right rear leg, rendering him lame for the season.
By the way, the same sentiment extends to banning snowmobiles.
Paul Brown
Wetmore
