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I took the time out of my busy day to hear your side, Don Rogers. Now please take the time to hear mine.
So just so I have this straight, you think that power and pedal users will have nothing to complain about? And plenty of area to ride?
Riddle me this: Once these proposals get bullied into law, then exactly what areas will still be open? Vail Pass? And maybe something a hundred miles away? Everything within a decent local driving distance is being shut down. And anything that is remaining open in nearby areas will fill up like Beaver Creek on opening weekend of the downhill.
It's completely ridiculous to think that closing all the area around us will do anyone any good. What, you're trying to save some space for your grandchildren to play in? That's absurd!
By the time your grandchildren grow up, nothing will be open to anyone any more, and they will be stuck getting fatter and dumber sitting in front of the Xbox doing nothing but gaming their faces off all day long. Kiss good grades and social lives goodbye because they won't have any. That is, any friends besides the unexercised 10-year-old on the other end of the headset.
What needs to be realized here, why this is truly a bad idea at a bad time is this: money! The nation is out of it and we need to generate more of it, and so your proposal to this is to close recreation areas? Let's see what that does for us. No play areas means fewer riders and bikers. This means fewer jobs for people to make bikes, sleds and other vehicles because not as many people will want to ride them. Fewer toys being bought in general because there is nowhere local to use them. This also means fewer workers for maintaining trails. This means less food on the table of hungry children — good job! You're already starving your grandkids.
What else will this mean? Less gas/oil being used to fuel our firebreathing demons of destruction, as they have been so rudely named.
The fact is, snowmobiles hurt nothing whatsoever. Show me a summer trail that has been damaged from winter playing on sleds, and I will show you an ELF worker with a shovel in his hand and a guilty look on his face. it just doesn't happen. We ride on the top of the snow where we do no damage!
Along these same lines, cyclists do zero damage, as well. They stick to existing trails and roads and very rarely, if ever, do they leak any oil.
We have all decided to live here in Eagle County with the preconceived notion that we are allowed to do what we like where we like, with the idea that we should be clean, organized and respectful to the areas and people around us. And for the most part, this is very true, and most everyone does what they can to preserve these areas. This is why we live here, Mr. Rogers. If I wanted to have nowhere close to home to ride and nowhere close to home to play, I would just move back home to Oregon where the bleeding heart liberals from California have already begun to take over. If we allow this land to be closed, people will leave. Why? Because they will have no jobs, money or fun.
And if you really want to complain about land being used inappropriately, then maybe you should talk to all the richy riches that have built their mansions in all the elk migration paths or the thousands of millionaires that fly into Eagle County Regional Airport every day, clogging up our beautiful skies with jets and the smells and sounds of jets. How about these people ?
No, you won't go after these people. Why? Because they matter, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks for reading.
Think about that before you go shoving everyone out of the woods.
P.S: Your paper lacks greatly and is full of typos. Fire the editors and hire someone that made it out of high school. Oh, and try reporting something worth opening a page once in awhile, will you? Something other than the crossword or sudoku should be getting me to open your paper.
Mike Cunningham Eagle-Vail
So just so I have this straight, you think that power and pedal users will have nothing to complain about? And plenty of area to ride?
Riddle me this: Once these proposals get bullied into law, then exactly what areas will still be open? Vail Pass? And maybe something a hundred miles away? Everything within a decent local driving distance is being shut down. And anything that is remaining open in nearby areas will fill up like Beaver Creek on opening weekend of the downhill.
It's completely ridiculous to think that closing all the area around us will do anyone any good. What, you're trying to save some space for your grandchildren to play in? That's absurd!
By the time your grandchildren grow up, nothing will be open to anyone any more, and they will be stuck getting fatter and dumber sitting in front of the Xbox doing nothing but gaming their faces off all day long. Kiss good grades and social lives goodbye because they won't have any. That is, any friends besides the unexercised 10-year-old on the other end of the headset.
What needs to be realized here, why this is truly a bad idea at a bad time is this: money! The nation is out of it and we need to generate more of it, and so your proposal to this is to close recreation areas? Let's see what that does for us. No play areas means fewer riders and bikers. This means fewer jobs for people to make bikes, sleds and other vehicles because not as many people will want to ride them. Fewer toys being bought in general because there is nowhere local to use them. This also means fewer workers for maintaining trails. This means less food on the table of hungry children — good job! You're already starving your grandkids.
What else will this mean? Less gas/oil being used to fuel our firebreathing demons of destruction, as they have been so rudely named.
The fact is, snowmobiles hurt nothing whatsoever. Show me a summer trail that has been damaged from winter playing on sleds, and I will show you an ELF worker with a shovel in his hand and a guilty look on his face. it just doesn't happen. We ride on the top of the snow where we do no damage!
Along these same lines, cyclists do zero damage, as well. They stick to existing trails and roads and very rarely, if ever, do they leak any oil.
We have all decided to live here in Eagle County with the preconceived notion that we are allowed to do what we like where we like, with the idea that we should be clean, organized and respectful to the areas and people around us. And for the most part, this is very true, and most everyone does what they can to preserve these areas. This is why we live here, Mr. Rogers. If I wanted to have nowhere close to home to ride and nowhere close to home to play, I would just move back home to Oregon where the bleeding heart liberals from California have already begun to take over. If we allow this land to be closed, people will leave. Why? Because they will have no jobs, money or fun.
And if you really want to complain about land being used inappropriately, then maybe you should talk to all the richy riches that have built their mansions in all the elk migration paths or the thousands of millionaires that fly into Eagle County Regional Airport every day, clogging up our beautiful skies with jets and the smells and sounds of jets. How about these people ?
No, you won't go after these people. Why? Because they matter, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks for reading.
Think about that before you go shoving everyone out of the woods.
P.S: Your paper lacks greatly and is full of typos. Fire the editors and hire someone that made it out of high school. Oh, and try reporting something worth opening a page once in awhile, will you? Something other than the crossword or sudoku should be getting me to open your paper.
Mike Cunningham Eagle-Vail
