Coyote Wall - The Labyrinth Loop, Coyote Wall — Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013

Southwest Washington > Columbia River Gorge - WA

Great hike. There are a lot of the Grass Widows. I was here 2 years ago and could hike the trails. They were flat then, now they are a 1' wide and a 1' deep with rocks in them up to 2" in dia. It was a week day and there were 25 to 30 bikes. They were not in the erosion ditches they had created. The bikes were either making new trails beside the exiting or just making new ones. There was survey tape blocking some of the ditches and they had been torn down. Some of the branches blocking the newly filled trails were moved. The bikes are destroying the entire area. They do not belong on trails, they belong on fire roads.