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An annual 360 mile bicycle 'backpacking' ride over Memorial day won't be held in the future. About 300 riders participated this year but they left a trail of trash and excrement for hosts to clean up. What kind of slobs will accept the use of city parks and private citizens' lawn but not even bother to bury their poop?
Yup, Oregon's yuppies are definitely 'green'.



Rural Oregon Bikepackers Leave Trash, Feces; Ride Canceled
KAREN BOSSICK, FOR THE TIMES-NEWS,

BEND, Ore. (AP) | The organizers say there won't be another of their 364-mile backpacking-by-bicycle rides over mostly gravel and dirt roads in central Oregon because the riders didn't clean up after themselves.

During this year's event over Memorial Day weekend, riders left trash and feces along the route, said Donnie Kolb, co-founder of Oregon Outback.

"I'm chock-full of four-letter words and offended on so many levels," he wrote on his website, OregonBikepacking.com. "Any form of an annual ride is done forever. Kaput."

In 2013, Kolb and Gabriel Amadeus, both Portland cyclists, mapped out the route that would become the Outback, The Bulletin newspaper reported.

It takes riders through remote rural communities such as Sprague River, Beatty, Silver Lake, Fort Rock and Shaniko. It ends at the confluence of the Deschutes and Columbia rivers.

Prineville, whose population is less than 10,000, is by far the largest town once riders leave Klamath Falls. Only 25 percent of the route is pavement.

Last year, more than 100 cyclists completed the ride over Memorial Day weekend.

The rugged, scenic route drew nationwide attention, and last month close to 300 bikepackers attempted to complete the ride.

But, Kolb said, they were less than gracious guests, leaving trash in a barn that a Silver Lake resident opened up for riders the first night of the event and human waste in the yard of a Silver Lake family that had given them shelter.

There was so much trash at Silver Lake's community park the first night of the ride that a local resident was able to fill her garbage bin, said Tom Roark, a Lake County sheriff's deputy who is himself a cyclist.

"It's disappointing," he said. "That park is maintained by volunteers. Cutting the grass, water, that's all done by volunteers. . It was all just a little disrespectful."

They must believe in "organic".

Why am I not surprised a bunch of bike riding yuppies from Portland left a big mess behind. They probably rode 4 wide and blocked traffic for miles also. When I lived in Orygun I really learned to hate groups of road blocking bike riders.

Their rules are always meant for the other guy to live by, not themselves.

Some (not all) of the folk from the West side think they are entitled.

That goes doubly for bicyclists.

Liberal yuppie trash.

Bicycle Nazis.

Urbanites. A lot of them have a lot in common with antelope sniper.

I was just working with a pipeliner that was on the Keystone line. Same thing there. Wherever the eco-nazis were protesting and camping they would pickup and leave the place looking like a homeless dump site.

Coming from Portlandia, they probably feel like stepping in someone else's feces is a bonding moment.