Lund
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I think you nailed it here, I don't think the so called out of town riders/tourist are your issues here.Thankyou for this input.
Yes - I agree with signage, but I think georeferenced mapping is the best solution.
I have stuck our head out of the sand here on this forum. You get it. We are pretty much running a family farm built up over 20 years, so much work goes into harvest time, our staff depend on it. 3 sleds on March 1 from south side and another group March 2 from east side significantly impacted our ability to go to work by tracking up core safe runs in a matter of hours. The larger picture I think is that Revelstoke, and a lot of BC is blown out (largely by over promotion of snowmobile tourism), pushing locals out further. We cannot go anywhere else.
We all need to go to work. I can think of many analogies depending on what people do for a job. Terrain is our tool, having your tools trashed in any trade puts a wrench in the work flow. I respect everybody's right to work. Cheers and stay safe over there in Golden - yikes.
It will be locals, having knowledge of the terrain and knowing the routs into these places is not what most tourist will have. After driving so many hour to ride a limited amount of time before they head home the vast majority will ride club zones.
I ride almost a 50/50 club zones and non club zones and honestly there are plenty of locals that do not ride club zones for the very reason of too many sleds tracking everything up. Snowmobiling tourism and promotion is good for that community but not so much for the backcountry rider. We've been pushed out by tourism.
We may spend an entire season working an unknown zone and it may be 100% possible that we end up over lapping or crossing a ski zone unknowingly.
I don't know what your solution maybe, I have all my zones loaded in my GPS and to the best of my knowledge try to respect ski zones if I know they are there, same as parks and wild life.