Please read - don't be the problem

[turboetech]

It’s easy at the park gates give travellers a 2000$$ fine if travelling to snowmobile..... that’s 2000$$ going and coming...4000$$ to put everyone at risk is a small price to pay to change stoopid.... fines and enforcement will be soon to come

 

[arff]

 

[turboetech]

Or maybe hit the staging areas with fines on registered vehicles.... 2000$$ fine under your windshield wiper will slow people down.... my understanding if everyone self isolated for 2 weeks we all could get back to sleddin by April1 so do your part....

 

[Teth-Air]

You guys who throw out the term "closed" are hooped. I agree if a law is imposed that closes provincial borders to travel then we must comply. I do agree that if recreation site services are stopped and shelters etc. are closed then we cannot and should not try to access them. BUT if someone goes sledding without contact with other people then until it is against the law, bite your tongue. Until the back-country is closed (like during the forest fires) go for it at your own risk but don't expect Search & Rescue services either.

Default to the letter of the law and not your personal opinion. We have given our governments all authority to make these decisions and what they decide will go.

If you don't like it, run for politics. Believe me there are lots of things I don't like about our governments but i have to suck it up and accept it.

 

[snowseeker]

I am going to be the devils advocate here. I hear everyone on here and get what everyone is saying about guys staying home and seeing trucks with sleds on the highway heading west. If I wasn't a person that was on snow and mud or facebook which a lot of guys aren't. I wouldn't know that Mcbride snowmobile club or town has asked people to stay away. I know whats going on in the world so we can save those comments. On the other hand I have jumped in my truck and done a lot of day trips leaving Edmonton @ 3:30am and rode then headed home and not talked to anyone in town. I will be honest I have thought about throwing sled on the deck and ripping up and ripping back to get out of my house. When I do that I stop at the gas station fill up and gone home. So lets take a breath here and realize that some people aren't aware that the mountains are closed or the towns have asked people to stay away. Maybe the hotels in these towns should mention the situation on whats going on in their town when guys are calling to book rooms in case they aren't aware of the situation in town.
On another note please stay safe guys and hopefully this **** all passes so we can enjoy a beer and some good stories and great snow next season.

 

[FernieHawk]

Alberta and B.C. have a Boundary...Canada and the USA have a border.

Trying to see if I can derail this thread as there are already 6 other threads discussing/arguing over the sled/don’t sled issue.

 

[turboetech]

Maybe this should be enforced like India does it.... send locals will large bamboo clubs to knock some sense into people.... would be a sleddin trip you would never forget....

 

[Caper11]

McBride begs sledders to come spend money.
Has no real industry outside tourists coming.
It's not like they have 7 sawmills, 3 pulp mills, a dozen wineries, or such.
Now a few people have decided to complain about sledders coming to ride.
Business owners want the business.
If a few don't like it they should stay home. If they stayed home, they have no chance of human contact.
So instead of complaining...practice what you preach. And be damn thankful to the people who spend their hard earned money there, because the town needs it.
If you don't like seeing people outside, shut your drapes!

Sigh, mcbride begs sledders to come??? Did you even read the news bulletin from the town of mcbride.


Nobody wants what’s happening right now, but not following simple instructions to stay home, and avoid unnecessary travel is not hard to comprehend.

Attitudes like the one your showing is the potential reason this could drag on even longer, or stricter enforcement implemented.



Look at provinces like Nova Scotia, and the NWT. Mandatory self quarantine when you enter the province. You want that to happen here, I dont.

 

[Teth-Air]

Maybe this should be enforced like India does it.... send locals will large bamboo clubs to knock some sense into people.... would be a sleddin trip you would never forget....

Good, but let's make it a law first.

 

[bobsledder]

You guys who throw out the term "closed" are hooped. I agree if a law is imposed that closes provincial borders to travel then we must comply. I do agree that if recreation site services are stopped and shelters etc. are closed then we cannot and should not try to access them. BUT if someone goes sledding without contact with other people then until it is against the law, bite your tongue. Until the back-country is closed (like during the forest fires) go for it at your own risk but don't expect Search & Rescue services either.

Default to the letter of the law and not your personal opinion. We have given our governments all authority to make these decisions and what they decide will go.

If you don't like it, run for politics. Believe me there are lots of things I don't like about our governments but i have to suck it up and accept it.

Exactly..grooming programs have ended.. The mountains are not closed. Travel is not recommended. If you live where you ride you should not be yelled at by the city dwellers.

 

[Shredder]

People can and will make their own decisions on these things. Anyone that has ever been involved in developing a risk matrix at work knows that each individual sees risk at different levels. As Snowseeker said, if someone gets in a truck and drives somewhere, unloads a sled, comes back to the truck and loads up without being inside another person’s bubble how is that endangering anyone?? There is common sense through this stuff. I still have to go to work and deal with people while trying to remain safe. That puts me at more risk than spending a day breathing through my balaclava under my helmet. Let’s not turn against each other and start finger pointing and name calling. Be safe everyone and we will find our way through this.

 

[turboetech]

We all saw what the law did to 150 native Canadians who destroyed Albertas economy before this covid happened.....took tax money and paid them off....there’s the law for you....wheres that bamboo stick at....

 

[Lem Lamb]

So i travel to sled area with my own supplies and dont stop at Macbride at all even though I sleep in my own truck using my own gas...

Does this mean I cant use my tracked up ohv on crown land even though its not signed into law yet...

Hummmm intresting indeed when the good folks of town didnt know that I came and gone with out a trace...

Those of us that travel free lance dont need the town since we travel free lance with all of our own supplies...

Ive traveled all of western Canada and most of North America with next to nill of human contact...

Its not that I dont like humans,,, its the fact that I dont like being around them...

23 years of free lance riding in Western Canada and will continue to do my own thing...

If Macbride doesn't like the way I travel,,, then to bad...

Stay away from the mountain's your self and you won't see me and those of us that support our live in systems...

PS: Why would anyone want to gas up in Macbride when we're paying 0.43 cents per liter... my slip tank has helped me travel all of BC for 14 years sledding with out buying gas,,, and all my food and sleeping uint in the bush...

Carry on with your plan,,, the rest of us that travel off grid will enjoy our own adventures at our choosing...

You might be wizer to deal with the homeless people passing threw town instead... ha

Lem

 

[Grinder]

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[Lem Lamb]

So those of us that live in our trucks off grid aren't to visit the town,,, that's awesone... Those in town should stay away from us in the mountains trail head...

Sounds good to me... its not that I haven't travel self sufficient off grid for all my trips over the years... bring what we need for the full adventures...

The savings in fuel,,, food and supplies at the trail head will save us alot of coin...

Freedom at last as the town folks stay at home... Yee Haa to good times... Hee Hee

 

[rodney1960]

stay home! trying to cut down on CO2. here also.


don't be the problem.

 

[Bogger]

stay home! trying to cut down on CO2. here also.


don't be the problem.

Just begging to be the Governments lap dog aren't you.....

 

[rodney1960]

I work for Revenue Canada....

 

[kanedog]

I work for Revenue Canada....

You're fired. Gimme back my tax money!

 

[snopro]

You guys will get audited for bagging on him. Take care.