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Advocacy, booby trap, sabotage, Trail, Trails - October 21, 2016

Ride Heads Up: Trail Sabotage in Eagle, Colorado

Riders in and around the Eagle, CO area: keep your wits about you out on the singletrack, as you could encounter booby traps. Traps have been discovered on the Dirt Surfer trail. Here’s the original posting: “I want to share this alert for anyone riding Dirt Surfer in Eagle. These were found on the trail …

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Advocacy, booby trap, terrorism, video - August 23, 2016

Update: According to BLM, Wire Across Trail in Fruita Not a Booby Trap

According to the Bureau of Land Management, the wire found strung across a trail in Fruita, CO was not a booby trap. Rather, according to a Facebook post distributed by mountain bike advocacy groups in the area, “it was an old electric fence that took the rider down, not a malicious booby trap. Fences and remains …

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Trail Terrorism on 2 Colorado Trails this Week: 18 Road, Fruita and Hartman Rocks, Gunnison

Unfortunately, we have two acts of trail terrorism to report this week, to remind our readers to stay safe and alert while out there on the trail. Both of them come from my home state of Colorado. Wire at 18 Road, Fruita Update: August 22, 2016 at 1:56pm MDT According to the Bureau of Land Management, the wire …

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Trail Terrorism in New Jersey: Barbed Wire and Metal Screw Booby Traps

Trail booby traps have been discovered at High Mountain Park Preserve in Northern New Jersey, and officials are asking local trail users to be extremely cautious when using the trails. The booby traps in question are strands of barbed wire and spike strips constructed of nails screwed through boards, which are covered and buried just …

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Over a Beer: Are Trail Booby Traps Terrorism or Just a Hate Crime?

Editor’s Note: “Over a Beer” is a regular column written by Greg Heil. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, any opinions expressed in this column are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. As I wrote my fourth article about trail booby trapping this summer—four instances of booby trapping …

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