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Got to Leigh Woods pretty early this morning and found the picnic bench trail had sh*t loads of logs, branches, saplings and all sorts dragged across the trails. Someone had gone to the extent of up rooting some fairly mature trees which seems pretty ironic if the excuse for doing it is we are damaging the place!!! Took a long time to get it cleared but I'd still definitely check the trails before riding!
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I'll bet the self-satisfied arse who did that felt pretty pleased with themselves. What an extraordinary amount of work to go to just make some sort of point. A few people with some spare time and an image-intensifying camera bivvying out for a few nights might get some revealing footage that would make for entertaining viewing.
That idiot has been around for years. Total muppet. Originally their attempts to block the trails just made them more interesting to ride, but they've progressed. How they justify destroying perfectly healthy trees is beyond me.
Shovel some earth in front of them and make some jumps out of them .........that'll really piss them off... 😆
He/they have been active further up in the woods, too - as you say, a fair number of saplings had been uporooted. I take great pleasure in un-building their works.
Think I met one of 'em once. Leastways, an angry looking man failed to return my cheery hello... 😈
This person was doing this 15 years ago when I used to ride there . Can't belive that its still going on , how I enjoyed myself clearing it every time I went out. Pure Joy.
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On a serious note, one of my mates narrowly avoided serious injury hitting a large log placed across the bottom of one of the switchback trails last year.
My little boy loves that stickman book
I find the stick man book makes me a little bit sad.
It takes you on a journey but ends happily
I can't help feeling that I'm responsible for this thread going off topic.
The original Bristol stickman was quite an old chap and this is going back 10 yrs ago, he'll either be dead or incapable of that amount of work.
IMO this is the work of a group of people.
is stickman a Rastafarian ?
pooh stick...oh how we laugh at that !
Just got the stick man book and it's pretty good, although "the Bike Lesson" (Berenstein bears) was at the top of the list tonight!
As for the lunacy at the top 😯 🙄 😯
It takes you on a journey but ends happily
But does it end happily? I think he does get burnt alive and the ending is an afterlife/heaven of some sort. Maybe that is a happy ending...
Not keen on the Giant in Town one either, obviously the Gruffalo and the Gruffalos Child are great and the Witch On the broom I enjoy reading to our kids. Enough, yes trail blocking the work of sad people without purpose in their lives.
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book FTW...
I think you'll find that it is actually the Snail and the Whale FTW.... 😉
Build a Tar Baby and see if you can catch him?
The Highway Rat FTW. Thread closed. 😆
Stick man's good but not a patch on room on the broom! 🙂
no Monkey puzzle fans out there then? Id give tiddler a miss tho.
I see the work of various stick people round here, dead stuff fair enough (you must have a pretty sad life if this sort of repressed shit is your thing tho) but cutting down live trees is reprehensible. bunch of idiots
had this kinda of problem a few years back in one of the woods round here,a few odd nights bivvying out a few smoke bombs/firworks combinded with bright torches and scream/hockey masks and not had this problem since 👿 😈 😉
is stickman a Rastafarian ?
Thai stick..?
He/they have taken to zip-tying branches & saplings across some of the trails, so take care... Needless to say, I undid asmuch of his good work as I could find.
Apocalypse Now
"[i]Like this bridge: we build it every night. Charlie blows it right back up again.[/i]"
/Apocalypse Now
Tabby McTat, argument over.
Wow what a busy beaver you have there 😉
Stick man book cover looks like the Peperami man.
Put some "Dear stickman, smile when vandalising the trees, you're on camera" signs up.
friendliest giant in town FTW
Never know he might be a pissed off mountain biker, who is trying to block off all the straight lines that people who struggle with switchbacks/technical bits ride around and end up screwing up the good bits
Never know he might be a pissed off mountain biker
Whoever he is, he's got a fine sense of irony - pulling down saplings in protest at mountain bikers damaging the woods.
The zip-tie stuff was in the middle of LW, not Picnic Bench etc. I avoid straight-lining that downhill stuff... simply by being an XC-jeyer & not riding it. 8)
Just an update, rode this yesterday morning and he'd been busy again. Couple of very hard to see branches bent over at chest height as well, so watch yourself if you go early / mid week.
On another note, there's a lot better trials around there than I gave credit for!
I'd be placing cameras to identify him if it were my local woods. Someone local to us started putting steel wire across the (privately owned but footpath) trails. Police got involved and tracked him down for endangering life. Stopped soon after.