SilentCal
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While hiking along the Metacomet-Mondanock trail on Mt. Tom (Mass.) yesterday, we ran into two separate groups of ATV 'ers and dirtbikers. The ATV 'ers had ascended the mountain from the old ski resort and had stayed off the hiking trails. They had parked their quads and hiked a short way to a nice viewpoint and were friendly to us. The dirtbikers on the other had were directly on the lower half of the trail and we had to get off four times from them to go by. The fourth time I was quite tempted to take my trekking pole and jam it in his front tire spokes to get him to flip. I ended up just glaring at him and he gave me the finger. Talk about getting your blood boiling. Now many hikers hate ORV's but around here in Mass the hiking trails and ORV paths are more and more seeming to go hand in hand. It's a real shame, I guess it just means I'll have to go bushwacking more. Any one else have similar experiences?