Rules of The Trail<\/a>).\u00a0I am disheartened to learn that some people would be so blatantly rude and uncaring. CORBA can’t be everywhere all the time, nor should we have to remind people of common courtesy. So please don’t go saying “CORBA should do this or that” in response to this situation; we are just the messenger. Some idiot mountain bikers created this problem, and it’s all because of selfish attitudes. And please do not defend or justify these people’s behavior: The fact is, the trail is on private property, and they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.<\/p>\nCyclists are encouraged to use the public route:\u00a0Queensferry to Bayliss, \u00a0Bayliss (either direction) to Westridge Road, down Westridge and out Mandeville Canyon to Sunset Blvd.<\/p>\n
Here is some additional information sent to us by local resident Sara Nichols regarding this situation:<\/p>\n
This trail has been in use for almost 70 years. \u00a0Sometime in the 1970’s one of the property owners on the trail tried to close it off. \u00a0Suit was brought by one of the horse riders on Old Ranch Rd. on behalf of all the riders. \u00a0He prevailed and the trail is now a prescriptive easement for horse riders; specifically not bikers. \u00a0Over the years more signs than anyone can count have been ripped out\/destroyed by bikers. \u00a0Recently, one was viciously vandalized–the metal posts on which it was mounted were either broken or sawed off, leaving two potentially dangerous spikes in concrete sticking up and the sign itself thrown into the canyon below. \u00a0Though a police report has been filed, it was the last straw. \u00a0Now a gate and a camera, which will be on 24\/7, will be placed on the upper part of the trail. \u00a0The gate will be installed to make it impossible for bikers to get through.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em>It is an expense and big inconvenience (getting on and off a horse to open and close the gate) that we have been trying to avoid for years but, unfortunately for the considerate bikers, the bad apple bikers brought this on. \u00a0We are constantly sending workers there to straighten out the mess they make of the trail so that the horses won’t go lame. \u00a0They never once have done any repair work on trail. \u00a0They are aggressive, dangerous and clueless about horses.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mark Langton It has come to our attention that due to vandalism, trespassing, and disrespectful behavior by some inconsiderate mountain bikers, the private horse trail that connects Sullivan Canyon at Queensferry Rd. and the residences below at Old Ranch Road (Brentwood) will have gates and cameras installed. We have known about this situation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}