Re: [at-l] bikes on trail

At 06:34 PM 12/19/00 -0500, MMSW00@aol.com wrote:
>  Anyway,
>I pushed over a mountain biker on the trail once.  Only did it because he
>tried to force me off the trail and I really had nowhere to go.

Yeah, way to go.  And this from an occasional mountain biker here, but on 
legal trails.

Question: what should be the proper response to encountering a herd of 
bikers on the AT?  Probably just nothing, I guess, esp if you're 
alone.  Just a matter of  having a precomputed strategy instead of reacting 
by surprise when it happens.

Fer instance, when I have a hefty "walking stick", I know exactly what I'm 
going to do if a set of vicious teeth (dog teeth) come after me while I'm 
on the trail or a road walk.  Situation is a bit different when dealing 
with a mtn biker...

Actually, I think I'd just stay in the middle of the trail, wherever I had 
been, prior to the mtn bike encounter.   Let them figure how to get 
around.  Might be a bit challenging, depending...

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