Don't mess with Parks Canada... apparently

[scott43]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/illegal-bike-jump-yoho-park-1.6824986

 

[cantunamunch]

I get the impression that Yoho and Banff will be a LOT better monitored than some others going forward...

 

[Andy Mink]

Just as OHVs poaching trails gets them shut out of entire areas, the same will happen if the growing number of riders continue to build unauthorized trails. I'm glad he got popped.

 

[James]

It happened in 2019 and now they’re fining him?

 

[k2rider]

It happened in 2019 and now they’re fining him?

He was fired in 2019. His union filed a grievance and he was ordered to be reinstated in 2021.

I'm not condoning his actions but any serious mountain biker knows that the sports popularity is largely due to trails built illegally...errrr....ummm....without permission. Sedona, Durango and Breckenridge trails come to mind in the US but the North Shore and Squamish area is the same. Here's a quote from an NSMA article in 2019..."By the ministry definition, virtually all the mature trails on the North Shore were illegally built, including Ladies Only, Pipeline, Ned's, Seventh Secret, TNT and many others. Without unsanctioned building there would have been no mountain bike trails on the North Shore at all. The same goes for Squamish, Pemberton and Whistler."

 

[DanoT]

I back Parks Canada 100%. National Parks were created to preserve the area within the Park without development so future generations can enjoy. There is plenty of Crown land (land owned by the provincial governments) outside of parks and in B.C. people have the legal right (established by the B.C. Supreme Court) to recreate on Crown Land including long term camping, provided they do not build permanent structures or interfere with timber values.