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Post by flyingbison on Dec 1, 2008 20:51:35 GMT -5
I can't make this stuff up:
p://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=83370
Moral:
WEAR ORANGE WHEN RIDING DURING HUNTING SEASON!
Greetings from Maryland...
EP
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Post by azdrawdy on Dec 1, 2008 21:43:05 GMT -5
Hey, at least this time it wasn't a two-legged humanoid on wheels.
Good to hear from you. Come back down and ride with us sometime.
MD
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Post by flyingbison on Dec 1, 2008 21:46:06 GMT -5
Was actually down last weekend working on the house in Aiken, no time for riding though  Riding up here is WAAAAYYY different! Steep hills and LOTS of rock gardens. Hope all is well. EP |
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Post by oddcouple on Dec 1, 2008 23:05:29 GMT -5
Next time in town better call use for dinner you need to meet little Paul Michael.
We have been missing you guys.
RH
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Post by Virginia Bill (fka Jax Bill) on Dec 2, 2008 12:18:32 GMT -5
I can't believe the number of people on Long Cane and FATS last week not wearing Orange....especially with the number of guns going off nearby.....
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Post by seenvic on Dec 2, 2008 13:30:35 GMT -5
Not wearing orange is dumb enough.
Wearing white is putting a target on your back.
Bill - when I saw you last in the FATS parking lot, 2 people took off both in white. One with a white long sleeve t-shirt and the other in a full white body suit. I was amazed at the stupidity I was witnessing.
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Post by moto922 on Dec 2, 2008 16:22:55 GMT -5
Last Wednesday my son went to FATS for the first time alone. My first thought was about the hunters and I made my son promise me that he first had to go buy a orange vest. I gave him a $20 bill and he got two $4 vest from Walmart. I also ask him to try to find someone else to ride with at FATS, he did and shared his other vest because they did not have one.
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 3, 2008 1:59:45 GMT -5
I can't believe the number of people on Long Cane and FATS last week not wearing Orange....especially with the number of guns going off nearby..... Long Cane is about 7 1/2 miles from my house so i ride out there between 2-3 times a week after class when the weather is kind. You would not believe the hunters out there. My roommate and I both hunt a little (on private land where there are no trails) so we both are pretty used to the sound of gunfire, and he swears to me someone fired within 100 yards of where he was. Also, Derek from Performance Cycle in Greenwood told me once that he has heard shotgun pellets zipping through the trees above his head. I have also heard from other people that have even ran across skinned dear right on the trail that they had to bury. Wearing orange is necessary at FATS, but at Long Cane riding without orange is about the same as running through the woods in all brown. |
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Post by DK on Dec 3, 2008 11:32:09 GMT -5
I have property that borders that area. I don't even go onto my own property without orange on, even on Sundays when deer hunting's not allowed. Way to many people in the woods with guns to take any chances.
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Post by Natalia on Dec 5, 2008 15:26:23 GMT -5
How frightening. I'm new to the world of mountain biking but I've been riding horses for 20 years and am no stranger to being cautious around hunters. Even in the off season I once rode my horse up on several small poached deer carcasses. They killed them then cut what little bit of antlers they had off and left the bodies to decompose. That's one real plus to a bike. They don't spook at blood.
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Post by ted on Dec 8, 2008 9:11:23 GMT -5
This is just a heads up for anyone who thinks that hunters aren't out there:
Great Wall, counterclockwise, at the end of the first section before getting to the power lines, there is a deer stand 20 yards in facing away from the trail.
Be careful as this particular hunter enters from the gravel road, walks down the power lines to his stand.
Anyone seen any more?
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Post by azdrawdy on Dec 8, 2008 21:04:06 GMT -5
Haven't been on the lower four loops in six weeks, at least. However, the last time I rode GW/Skinny/BW I saw three pickups parked on the gravel roads in areas very close to the trails. Didn't see any hunters, but you absolutely MUST assume they are there.
We rode HC Saturday and saw a pickup parked near the road. Looked out in the tree-line and saw a nice orange hat at a distance of at least 200 yards. Amazing how visible true hunter orange is!
Yes, I am sure he could see us. We were sporting our vests...
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Post by seenvic on Dec 15, 2008 14:01:26 GMT -5
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