New Snowmobile Trail Signing

[whitedust]

Chevy - You're arguments are weak. A highway is required to have signs for every turn, bridge, bump, etc. If your wife set the cruise at 60 all the way home, she would be the closest comparison to Ricky Racer. I highly dought your Tahoe would handle those conditions at 60mph while she sailed home. She would have been off the road and, possibly, taking someone in a Focus with her and into the trees.

She rode as conditions allowed and I will bet you she looked for every sign to warn her of what was coming up ahead. The same should apply to the trails.

Let's keep this in perspective. Roads, trails, Tahoe's and snowmobiles are the farthest from true comparisons you can make. Regardless of "conditions"!

Dave

Comparing roads & cars to sleds & trails makes no general sense not apples to apples in pratice. Removing bridge ahead & narrow bridge from snowmobile trail signage is not acceptable to me. Some of the others that they plan to remove I can deal with but 2sleds in opposite directions meeting on a snowmobile bridge is as dangerous as it can get. Removing these signs as part of the new plan without any other warning sign to replace them is just not discreet & very dangerous. You have no place to go on a brigde no way to bail if you meet head on traffic no way to know a bridge is ahead on the trail. This is dangerous for every rider as speed has nothing to do with it a bridge is a trail hazard & all riders need these warning signs to know a hazard is ahead.

 

[swampcat]

Gee, how does the GROOMER manage to make it down the trail? Do ya think they need the signs???

 

[russholio]

I'd say the groomer is going just a little slower than most sledders....and also might have the benefit of traveling it again and again, so they probably know every twist, turn, curve, etc. on the trail.

 

[whitedust]

Gee, how does the GROOMER manage to make it down the trail? Do ya think they need the signs???

Yikes now comparing a groomer to a snowmobile!! What is next a freight train or a 747 on a runway?? LOL By the way the grommer has huge problems getting up hills around sharp corners & are highly skilled heavy equipment drivers that sit up high maybe 8 feet off the ground & are going at break neck 12 mph if even that fast. Also no 2 way traffic you yield to groomer & get out of his/her way often off the trail entirely if you are doing the right thing. This comparo makes no sense to me at all.

 

[dcsnomo]

http://youtu.be/MjoMQJf5vKI

 

[Hoosier]

http://youtu.be/MjoMQJf5vKI

That's a good one!

Maybe the MSA should just put up a generic caution sign every mile or so - perhaps with flashing yellow lights. That should please both sides - the lewis and clark's who don't need any stinkin' specific signs to guide them where to go, even if "this road ends ends in water, off a cliff or into the black hole," and the nancy's who want the local school crossing guards out in full force at every possible trail variation that was not properly engineered, graded and approved by the Department of Transportation.

(sarcasm)

 

[700classic]

Mrs. RB's original thread wasn't to argue the pros and cons of this. It's too late for that. Now that it's done the education needs to start, the more the word gets out the safer things will be( hopefully ). Let the snow begin, tried of summer already!

 

[sleddheadd]

Mrs. RB's original thread wasn't to argue the pros and cons of this. It's too late for that. Now that it's done the education needs to start, the more the word gets out the safer things will be( hopefully ). Let the snow begin, tried of summer already!

Well said!