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It always aggravates me some in regards to the way a lot of the local community and "other" visitors to the area view the off-roading crowd. Like said above how much money do the cliff climbers that tent camp and eat their granola contribute to the area? The last trip down there our group paid for around 20 nights of hotel homes, fueled up the trail rigs AND the tow rigs (even if fuel is higher around the area we try to make it a point to fill up at the local stations), plus all of the food and snacks that were bought. Of course we all paid Charles Booth for a day of riding at his place.
On the other hand I also know where a lot of the bad rap for the fourwheeling community comes from and see it everytime we go to Slade. I'm not trying to be preachy and love a beer as much as the next guy, but I'm not quite sure why people need to get sloppy drunk while trailriding. I'm not talking about a beer or two throughout the day, but "I can't hardly walk" drunk. It's a simple fact that the majority of the anti-fourwheeling crowd looks at any alchohol consumption on the trail negatively, and a decent portion of the fourwheeling community looks at drunks on the trail negatively also.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad, such as watching a guy keep backing up and hitting the bottom of Carb in his XJ while his cup of beer sloshes out the window all while we are yelling at him to stop because he broke a rear axle on his D35 and the tire, drum, and broken shaft are laying on the ground 10' behind him (some of the guys on this board where in his group). Then another time coming up to a group being led by some off-road shop out of Kentucky on Widowmaker when the guy started throwing out Jello shots....of course watching 2-3 guys fall on their face trying to get to them because they were so drunk they couldn't walk.
Of course you also have the guys who can't make it up some obstacle so they go blazing through the woods and running over trees to get around it.
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