mister_coffee wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:27 am
There are some other points of view. I got blocked in (along with a couple of other skiers) by a rig with a trailer in late December. There are clearly bad actors on both sides and putting all of the bad karma on one group or another is not likely to be constructive.
It is hard to be generous about other folks' points of view when you are cold and tired and basically stuck until the snowmobiler with the trailer comes back. And it isn't skiers caching gear and fuel at the trailhead and polluting Early Winters Creek.
well certainly parking issues can arise in every public parking lot or private commercial lot. If someone parks you in on public property, call the Sheriff, because it is illegal to park you in.
Point is, according to the owner and the organization who does the lot maintenance, ie the State of Washington, Methow Trails has "no preview" in controlling who parks in that public lot. Yet MT has placed bogus signs that creates conflict and in my case, has lead to me being harassed twice now by people who are being mislead by those bogus signs.
I dont use a trailer so the harassment doesn't even jive with the message on the bogus Methow Trails signs. But I am quite obviously a snowmobiler so those signs seem to be triggering some people's prejudice.
I do agree with you about the fuel spill problem, whether that occurs at Early Winters or the Silver Star Snowpark (which has been open around 6 weeks in its three years of operation).
Those folks however are parking on the HWY as close as they can to their stashed snowmobiles on the other side of the closed Road berm and are not using the State Lot. So a non sequitur in this discussion.