Stampede Road - after the Feb trip

[holeski]

Going all the way to Kantishna is perfectly legal as long as you stay on the trail while in park land. You pass though the part twice. Once in the spot where Dan turned back and then later on. We also cleared a lot of the trail, which he said was fine to do. The Ranger said we did nothing wrong and that after we groomed the trail it was a nice ride for the snowmachines. He also has no say when ever the trail is not inside the park and told us that is technically it’s a road and not a trail. So we have the right of way but ethically we where wrong to be out there. To me if it is a road ethically the mushers should have to register their dogs and sleds. We stayed off the bypasses and keep the trail pretty nice. Most of the people in Healy we spoke to where happy we came up to run the trail and I will continue to go back. We need to start going down there for the sole propose of clearing the trail. Heather and I gave the Ranger some Tread Lightly info with our contact info on it. The Ranger just released that we where smarter then he thought we would be and couldn’t make stuff up or lie to us. The Major of Healy warned me about how they will do that to make you stay out. The only answers we got were "is it illegal or ethically wrong", "there is a lot of gray", "I don’t feel right telling you the truth" and "you guys have done nothing wrong". But they did try and bullsh!t us. One Ranger pretended not to be a Ranger. He was covered up in civilian close. When is radio squelched under he jacket the other Ranger pulled of like it was his radio. See in the mean time the other guy was running our plates but they didn’t want us to know. He also gave Heather some more BS and treated her like she was stupid. The main Ranger even said he recognized Heather from BLM. There is more I could bitch about but I will save it for later. In the end it was a great trip. Although the Ranger played nice we where offended by there actions toured Heather and myself and the Parks Service will receive a letter.