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[QUOTE="2TrakR, post: 781449, member: 27322"] Wow, I could write a book agreeing with you, Terry. We see this negative behavior in a major way when camping to Gladwin on the holiday weekends. I'm positive that the majority of goons who go to Gladwin were up to "the next" system since the former was 2/3 closed. We ran through the Denton system on Saturday and can attest to the number of weekend warriors. Funny thing is the trail was relatively dead, but the Route was hopping. Seems everyone wants to go 100mph+ on a big wide road and nobody (again, relatively speaking) wants to ride trail. Fine with me, that means more good trail to ride. We did maintenance on Geels South on Friday, seen 5 bikes the whole day. Saturday we put the Toys for Kids DS (A Loop) route together; it runs from St Helen to Prudenville to Meredith and then back to St Helen. We use a lot of the SMTR/ORV Route to get through the Denton area. Lots of traffic, but not as bad as I thought it might be on such a weekend. We were purposely going slow to avoid goons. Only had one incident on a sharp corner where a 4xquad with 2 riders thought they should own the whole trail and I had to take evasive action. Where were the COs on Saturday? I can tell you there was active enforcement in the Denton area as we were stopped by one and shot the BS with him for a while. He was out of Gladwin and was in this area 'cause he couldn't personnaly justify writing tickets in Gladwin for riding a trail that was open just 2 weeks ago. Nice guy. 10 minutes or so before we ran into him we passed a group of bikes/quads riding down the road. Mentioned this to him and he described the group exactly. Said x tickets were handed out plus 2 each for the quad riders who were double up (chuckle). When we got near 55 by where 0ld 76 meets it, on the snowmobile trail (not ORV legal) we found two more COs. It's right by a huge hill that's been closed off with big rocks at the bottom of it. Anyway, this guy (his buddy in truck 2 just snuck back in the woods) checked our registration instead of just seeing that we had plates. Said they had been getting people just hanging plates on their bikes w/o really registrering them. He was also very nice - I need to stress that the DNR we dealt with over the weekend were friendly as all get out and very courteous. The Jackson Trail Riders (we were camping with them) were doing maintenance on the St Helen loops over the weekend as well. They encountered several more COs, but I think 2 were the same two we had met (above). Bill ran into a State Boy by I-75 who almost had to get the ticket book out since he didn't have his paperwork with him, but let him go to the truck to show proof. Guess the cop was busy along 76 chasing quads & writing tickets too. Sunday we put the short DS loop together and saw now LEOs and a few bikes, and those were on the MCCCT just north of Ambrose Lake who passed us while I was resting (wasn't feeling so hot for some reason). Monday I went out in the storm and brushed/signed the new MCCCT south of St Helen. Have to get back there for 10 more ORV Trail signs, but otherwise it's in pretty good shape (I put up 30 triangles in a 4 mile stretch). Luckily it quit raining right when I got back to camp.. If you've not ridden that section, you're missing out. In fact, there's pretty new trail from just south of 55 (south of St Helen) all the way to the Rose City loop. Definitely could spend a day on "tight" trail. Back to the topic at hand... You will meet the nicest people on a Honda - as long as it's not a holiday weekend. The behavior you saw is the reason we have trail closures and when you think about it, it's not a bad idea after all(?). [/QUOTE]
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