2024-02-16, 06:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-02-16, 06:37 PM by Beardilocks.)
I also want to take a moment to mention something publicly here that sort of came about through something of an odd set of circumstances.
There were two side by sides parked at the trailhead for Titus when I got there. With some of the blatant disregard for road closures that's been going around lately (like the dirt bike idiots that tried to get through Titus a while back), I called it in to NPS. On my hike in Titus I saw that the side by side tracks went at least as far up the canyon as I had. So I called back to NPS when I got out to report that as well. Turns out that NPS themselves rented a couple of side by sides to help them get to an archeological survey somewhere up the Titus drainage and I called NPS on their own vehicles. Lol. I suggested that they might want to label them somehow as NPS vehicles before they either keep getting calls about them or people started to think that side by sides are legal in the park now.
But that was just the circumstances. As I was leaving my contact info with NPS on the first report, the Ranger recognized my name and said "do you go by Beardilocks online?" I definitely wasn't expecting that out of the blue calling in side by sides. Haha.
So I stopped by the VC on my way to the post office and had a very nice chat with Ranger Matthew. He is in the Division of Interpretation and Education and makes sure that us dirt-bags out here enjoying ourselves in the park don't post anything environmentally or culturally sensitive and/or do anything dumb or illegal and brag about it on here. It was a great conversation and I was very glad to meet him.
I think our wonderful Mods do a pretty good job of keeping us in line, but I just wanted to add a friendly reminder to the posters on here to police the background of your photos in sensitive areas. Please don't show ridgelines or identifiable geological features if you are visiting anywhere that could see a negative impact if the location got out.
That goes not only for this forum but all other platforms as well including Facebook and Instagram.
There were two side by sides parked at the trailhead for Titus when I got there. With some of the blatant disregard for road closures that's been going around lately (like the dirt bike idiots that tried to get through Titus a while back), I called it in to NPS. On my hike in Titus I saw that the side by side tracks went at least as far up the canyon as I had. So I called back to NPS when I got out to report that as well. Turns out that NPS themselves rented a couple of side by sides to help them get to an archeological survey somewhere up the Titus drainage and I called NPS on their own vehicles. Lol. I suggested that they might want to label them somehow as NPS vehicles before they either keep getting calls about them or people started to think that side by sides are legal in the park now.
But that was just the circumstances. As I was leaving my contact info with NPS on the first report, the Ranger recognized my name and said "do you go by Beardilocks online?" I definitely wasn't expecting that out of the blue calling in side by sides. Haha.
So I stopped by the VC on my way to the post office and had a very nice chat with Ranger Matthew. He is in the Division of Interpretation and Education and makes sure that us dirt-bags out here enjoying ourselves in the park don't post anything environmentally or culturally sensitive and/or do anything dumb or illegal and brag about it on here. It was a great conversation and I was very glad to meet him.
I think our wonderful Mods do a pretty good job of keeping us in line, but I just wanted to add a friendly reminder to the posters on here to police the background of your photos in sensitive areas. Please don't show ridgelines or identifiable geological features if you are visiting anywhere that could see a negative impact if the location got out.
That goes not only for this forum but all other platforms as well including Facebook and Instagram.
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