Yudicky safe....for now

[Shodan]

Big write up in the Nashua Telegraph today, our board of alderman voted down the mayors proposal to make it easier to sell off Yudicky if needed. It still can be sold, just not as easily. We need to push to make this a permanent conservation area. One of the comments made in the article was that Nashua has several other sites they can use for schools, etc. Thats great for now, but in a few years there wont be any extra sites and then they'll sell off Yudicky

[MissJean]

That's good news! I know of a few people who phoned or emailed their aldermen about this issue. If anyone wants to do a follow up, the City of Nashua web site has contact info:
http://www.ci.nashua.nh.us/
click the link to the Board of Alderman.

Jean

[MissJean]

Safe from development but NOT safe from stupid ATVs!

From this mornings ride....
on the Red Dot trail, after the log bridge, the trail goes to the left between the some trees, the ATvs can't fit through but does that stop them? hell no! they'll just find another way. >:(

[MissJean]

Last spring the parks dept had put these signs up at all the entrances. All of them were ripped down. This is the last one, by an entrance blocked by boulders, but about 10' away the ATVs have cut through the woods to get in.

[MissJean]

The Yellow Dot trail, nice and ripped up. Good thing the ground is frozen, the way they took the turns, if the ground was thawed there would have been deep ruts.

[MissJean]

I'll be sending these pics to the parks dept & to my alderman, asking them to do some thing about more signs & enforcement & better blocking of the entrances.
If anyone else is pissed off as I am, please do the same.
Thanks,
Jean

[radair]

Holy sh!t, Jean. I hope this isn't (wasn't?) singletrack you guys built.

[MissJean]

No, that's not the new single track, thank god.
The ATVs have tried to get onto the new stuff, but when we laid out the new trails, we made a point of making each entrance as narrow as possible, usually through 2 close-set trees or through a thick stand young trees.
They did make it on to one of the new trails by going around the trees and plowing through the woods, but they didn't get far up the trail before it got too tight & twisty, so they turned around.

[renoxc]

Its bad the atvs are going down the singletrack. There is miles of old sand pits and fireroads that are out there already rutted up you would think they would stay off of the trails barelly wide enough for a bike to get though but i see they haven't. That shot of the improvised trail is what bothers me the most for all the work that goes into keeping the trails narrow thats just terrible.

[fisherking]

Jean,
Did you put the extra branches in the way? If not someone did to help prevent more ATV action. Done pretty nicely. I was able to get out there this afternoon unexpectedly and it was great out today!! Like you said, at least not too much damage was done. If they hit it today they would have ripped a lot of it up I think.

Mike

[MissJean]

Yah, that was me. I had planned on riding both sides that day but instead spent half my time dragging branches around. ::)
ah well, I guess I got a good upper body work out too on that ride. :)

[MissJean]

No, that's not the new single track, thank god.
The ATVs have tried to get onto the new stuff, but when we laid out the new trails, we made a point of making each entrance as narrow as possible, usually through 2 close-set trees or through a thick stand young trees.



Well, I spoke too ******* soon.
I just got back from riding and those ATV a$$holes have forced their way onto the Barbwire trail. They plowed their way over the young trees, snapping many of them off at the base. When they came to the close set trees, they just rode through the woods snapping trees as they went.
I was ready to cry.
For gods sake! Any moron can see that a trail like that is meant for foot or bike traffic only.
Trail-bait is right, they are reckless, vandalizing idiots.

[off piste]

I say what we need on this board is an Official ATV Trail Damage Photo thread.

[slapheadmofo]

Quads suck. >:(

[radair]

Any way to follow the tracks back to where they came from?

I did this locally and tracked them right to their door. It seems that usually they are from the immediate neighborhood. My local Forest Service guy was very interested in talking to them, and although I wanted to give them hell directly I refrained (so far).

[fisherking]

That is bad to hear they were back.. I was hoping they found it uninteresting and wouldn't bother coming back.. Of course these could be different crowds all trying to ruin a different part of the trail....

Nasty...

[MissJean]

There is a teeny-tiny ray of hope.
Last summer during one of our trail days, I had picked up off the ground one of the "No Motorized..etc" signs that the city had put up. I hung on to it, intending to put it back up, but never found the time. But last Sunday, pissed at all the ATV activity in Yudicky, I went out and nailed it as high up as I could on a tree right where the ATVs are coming in.

As I'm walking away, I'm thinking that the sign will last about a day, but what the hell, I tried.
I'm heading back into the woods, and I hear ATV motors! so I turn around and see 2 of them coming up the path where I had put the sign.
I wave them down and start to tell them that this is a park, etc, etc. The guy stops me and says he & his son are on their way out, they saw the sign, they didn't know, the sign was not there last week.
Huh?! Well! OK great!?! :o I was sooo ready to blast him, but instead I pointed out the quickest way back to the parking lot.

This morning, on my ride, I went to see if the sign was gone, but it is still there. I'm not holding out hope that one little sign will fix things, but at least it worked once.

Jean

[Jisch]

As I'm walking away, I'm thinking that the sign will last about a day, but what the hell, I tried.
I'm heading back into the woods, and I hear ATV motors! so I turn around and see 2 of them coming up the path where I had put the sign.
I wave them down and start to tell them that this is a park, etc, etc. The guy stops me and says he & his son are on their way out, they saw the sign, they didn't know, the sign was not there last week.
Huh?! Well! OK great!?! :o I was sooo ready to blast him, but instead I pointed out the quickest way back to the parking lot.


I dunno, that sounds like the Steve Martin defense, "I forgot that armed robbery was against the law...". I hope they really don't return, but I wouldn't count on it.

John

[UngaWunga]

Ya know, as a guy that rides both dirtbikes and mountain bikes, I hate to see this. As mountain bikes all know, it only takes one or two to make the rest of the group look bad.

ATV's tend to be the worst of the bunch, as their wide track tends to rip up more trail. And you tend to see more idiots that don't know how to ride on them. All the dirtbike riders I know respect the trails, and don't ride where were not allowed. With the rate that suburbia is taking over southern NH, dirtbikers are also losing places to ride, and our areas were much fewer to begin with. With fewer places to ride, what do you think happens? They start riding illegally.

rant over. I think I'll have to hit Fort Rock today.... on the Fisher...

[Husqvarna]

Fort Rock is closed until May.