Regarding the Reiter Trails question, what to do with all these off-road folks looking for a place to ride in Snohomish or even King County. (Jan. 18 article, “Reiter Foothills trail work delayed, frustrating off-road riders.”)
When Everett Powersports or other stores sell their products, some of these folks ask, “Say, where can we legally ride this thing?” The seller would have to say, “Why, nowhere in this county.” The customer would then wonder why he bought the ORV license.
Since 1970 or so, we’ve been buying these tags and not one inch of trail has been made for this growing user group in two of our most populated counties. As all the existing trails were being closed to all trail riders in the ’70s, our state had a solution to the problem — we’ll license this user group and build trails for them. Didn’t happen; hello general fund. The whole Reiter area isn’t that big anyway and tends to be a bit congested on the weekends. The solution they came up with: Put the off-roaders in a small area and let the fun begin.
Most hikers and horse folks want to be far away from these off-road types. They have access to large areas of this state already, and good for them. All we want is a fair shake. Will that happen? Don’t hold your breath. All these groups getting in each other’s way should be interesting. Count me out.
Richard Keezer
Arlington
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