Southern California Club Xterra
Southern California Club Xterra => SCCX General Discussion => Topic started by: xxSVxx on May 30, 2018, 03:10:54 PM
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Stumbled upon this post on FB today...
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Yeah there was some back and forth about this on Facebook a few weeks ago. It's super sad. :( Makes me happy that I was able to see it and appreciate it before it was removed, but makes me sad that I won't get to take my boy out there to see it one day, and will just have to tell him "stories" about it instead.
These environmental organizations that snatch up land are kind of a joke. There is a local one out here in Riverside County called the Riverside County Open Space Preserve District. They operate as a non-profit, but use government money (usually grants, but sometimes it is from private donations) to purchase land and close off (or severely limit) public access to it. Organizations like the MDLT have their own agenda, which is to preserve only NATURAL resources, and human history is not really a "thing" to them unless it's more than a few hundred years old. They don't like things like roads, or trails, or cabins. This happened about a decade ago in Death Valley National Park, when a senior official was orchestrating the removal and clean-up of historic airplane crash sites because he considered them "litter" within the park. It was even proven that he was lurking around on forums for clubs that would go find these sites and catalog/document them, so that he could find where they were and go "clean them up."
I can appreciate their conservation efforts, and I agree that we need people looking out for knuckleheads that tear up the land and the environment. But erasing history is just wrong.
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Christiaan told me on Cerro Gordo that it had been removed. It's really too bad because it was something of a desert icon. You never really know what you are going to run into out in the deserts with all the strangeness that goes on. I think that's partly why we all have a bit of an explorer spirit about us. I don't see how this bus would have harmed anything and wish it was just left alone.
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I can appreciate their conservation efforts, and I agree that we need people looking out for knuckleheads that tear up the land and the environment. But erasing history is just wrong.
Well Said.
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Glad we got to see it one last time, this year on the WMR trip :'(
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Honestly, I'd rather see it in this parking lot, instead of tipped over on the trail like it was at the end of last year. I think I saw that on FB and how a group went through and righted it again.
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Honestly, I'd rather see it in this parking lot, instead of tipped over on the trail like it was at the end of last year. I think I saw that on FB and how a group went through and righted it again.
blkwgn from AAV flipped it back over.
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blkwgn from AAV flipped it back over.
Thanks, I couldn't remember who it was.
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Stumbled upon this post on FB today...
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A far cry from how the school bus looked the first few years we trekked that spot:
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A far cry from how the school bus looked the first few years we trekked that spot:
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HOLY CRAP Alex looks so young ???
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This January
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Those pics are great Jay...ironic the Wine Country Rock Crawlers and SCCX stickers together!
They were the kind folks who rolled up and "rescued" a certain someone with their portable welder during the infamous episode at Teakettle Junction in 2015...
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I thought that sticker looked familiar...
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I thought that sticker looked familiar...
the broken trailer looked even more familiar to me... lol