Tom Rankin
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Like I said, if we don't do it, who will? We are the people. We are capable. Are we empowered?
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bryan
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didn't take a great picture, but there is also a nice blue tarp just before what remains of the black brook bridge. it's mostly covering old timbers as far as i could tell. also some large metal beams that have been torch cut into smaller pieces.
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Becca M
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were we empowered when they destroyed it?
Who is John Galt?
1HappyHiker
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Excellent interjection! Ayn Rand would find it commendable.
hikerbrian
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I hear ya. It's not my *job* to pick up Snickers wrappers and discarded bug spray bottles in the woods either, but I do it, as do many others on this board. No biggie.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. If they could be sawed in half, to 8' sections, might be a LOT easier to transport. Can you get snowmobiles in the first 3 miles (to the wilderness boundary)?Billy said:
Becca M
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I pick up wrappers/etc.
ah, yes, John Galt...... (wondering where his tax dollars went? probably not wondering....)
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DougPaul
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They could use it to build a new bridge: that would reduce the dumping/litter and fix the original damage...
The wood/lumber is (semi) covered with tarps. Why? Are they planning to use it for something in the future?
Doug
My guess is that some x-c skier left the small yellow bottle of Equate Medicated Body Powder, but I wonder who left the two 5-gallon Rands paint buckets? Perhaps a base camp cache for winter campers?
As for the bridge removal, I still think that the USFS dismantled it for spite more than anything else.
As for the bridge removal, I still think that the USFS dismantled it for spite more than anything else.
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Bingo ....
They could use it to build a new bridge: that would reduce the dumping/litter and fix the original damage...
... it only took 28 replies!
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DougPaul
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I've been sitting on the suggestion for a while--was just waiting for the right opportunity...
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Zimmer
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Just build a cairn out of the timbers and buckets, and paint the tarps to resemble a sign ("Campground: 3 miles") and they'll be gone by morning.
REK
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Just build a cairn out of the timbers and buckets, and paint the tarps to resemble a sign ("Campground: 3 miles") and they'll be gone by morning.
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Interesting. What do you mean by that? My question is not meant to be confrontational at all. I'm really curious why you'd say that. If the object of their spite is hikers, couldn't they tick off more hikers by removing that (intentionally) wobbly tacoma-narrows bridge in the Great Gulf, which I believe is along the AT? Why such selective spite?
una_dogger
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Wilderness plan spite in the Pemi seems particularly contentious ....
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Here's one way of looking at it:
You see, Billy (imagine I'm Robert Loggia), the whole Ayn Rand thread is that da gubb'mint is a living, breathing, entity unto itself. It's kinda like the old Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock meet a 'thing' in a subterranean cave which consumes hate (remember that one?). Now da gubb'mint isn't exactly passionate in that way (more like the Borg, but that's a different series), but it does have one single purpose: to ensure its own survival.
Actually, Bob's avatar explains it perfectly: the dog is da gubb'mint, and the people are the guy cleaning up after the dog. The guy cleaning up thinks he's in charge, but we know the real truth, don't we?
Now, do you see?
Drink your orange juice.
Actually, Bob's avatar explains it perfectly: the dog is da gubb'mint, and the people are the guy cleaning up after the dog. The guy cleaning up thinks he's in charge, but we know the real truth, don't we?
Now, do you see?
Drink your orange juice.
Just one way of looking at it!
--Mike.
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OK, we're drifting a bit from shore here.
OK, we're drifting a bit from shore here.
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