NOTE: IN REGARDS TO THE ATV.

Sharp eyes will note a tendency towards negativity whenever the subject of ATVs comes up and a similar attitude towards Snow Machines but not as severe. The reasoning is simple, I remember the Valley before ATVs and being able to walk on trails anywhere, summer or winter. In winter snow machines riding on renegade trails made walking on those trails possible without interfering with users of the official snow machine trails. It was great to be able to go to places you could not go any other time of year such as swamps, streams, lakes, etc.

Regardless of the season anytime a ATV goes over a piece of land it leaves some form of permanent mark. When the ground is wet the ATV driver tends to experience wheel spin which strips off the top layer of an unpaved surface the end result is a rut. When the rut gets deep enough, a new trail has to be started. In drier areas, surface vegetation is stripped off resulting in a surface that is more beach then meadow. Result, trails that were once available to all users are now left almost exclusively to the ATV.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

2006: Valley East Trails Examines the Devastation to Our First Trail.


Members of Valley East Trails starts their survey 
of the walking trail behind Howard Armstrong Rec.
 Centre. Shown here is Jeanette Courvoisier,
 Dee Murray, Jim Courvoisier, and Terry Armstrong.


We walk along what was once a simple curving trail
 which someone decided to turn into a drive way.




Terry Armstrong surveys the devastation.


Terry Armstrong and Mike Lauzon.




A section of trail built by the defunct Valley
 East Community Trails Association in 1998.



A sign of that particular time.



Mike checks out the trees scheduled
 to be planted outside the east fence.


VECTA had also improved this trail away back
 then, at least something was left intact. 


The old Valley East Community Trails
 Association Sign. It still remains today.


Trails End, Rec. Centre Parking Lot.
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