As for the comment about wheelers doing some of this cutting I feel that some of that cutting was used directly for paving the trail entrance. There were at least 20, chunks of logs PILED DIRECTLY into the entrance of the trail, basically paving it like a freeway for ANY rig to get up through the entrance, which almost serves as a mini gatekeeper of sorts to keep certain vehicles from going any further. Now whether that was a byproduct of the vandalism or not its hard to tell, but it is clear that someone had the bright idea to fill in the rock obstacles to essentially drive a friggen ford escort through. Further up the trail wherever logs were laid out as barriers, cuts were made evenly through, and then just left there. Someone had to be there for a long time cutting, and it was relatively fresh.
As we saw on the end of the trail, while we were getting the rest of our group up (who were cradled for a reason), a few jeeps came up behind us, OPEN, and NO WINCHES on any of the rigs... they needed assistance from our group to get up the hill, over the rock/stumps, breaking **** as they tried to throttle out.
after being at Elbe the previous day, and seeing the 'signage' and then going to Reiter, and seeing rigs running trails blind, I can appreciate the benefit of the signs.
I will bring the pictures of the destruction to the RTW meeting tomorrow.
