Wizard wrote:

> I find it a contradiction that horses can be ridden to the
> springs on all the trails. 1000 pound plus animals with 4
> shovels for feet when it comes to the damage they do and yet
> bikes with rubber tires and weigh maybe 30 pounds more or less,
> and leave mostly just a little line of a print in the dirt are
> dis-allowed.

The difference is in the tracks. Animals leave disconnected dents in the ground while bikes leave a continuous track. The bike tracks become erosion channels while the animal tracks do not.

But then there was the day that over 60 yahoos on horses showed up at the springs...