Hikers report booby traps on section of Pacific Crest Trail

[The Straight Story]

Hikers report booby traps on section of Pacific Crest Trail


Hikers going from Mexico to Canada encountered a "quite dangerous" and "very scary" stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail near Tehachapi that had signs declaring it was rifle range and had nail-studded booby traps embedded in the trail, a hiker told the Kern County Sheriff's Department Thursday.

Scott Williams, 57, a former probation officer from Martinez, gave sheriff's Sgt. Richard Wood one of the cement cylinders with nails sticking up that Williams said he took from the crest of the trail about eight miles southeast of Tehachapi.

Wood, noting there have been some disputes around the trail mostly over illegal off-road motorcycles and other vehicles, said that after receiving the report Thursday afternoon, he asked a deputy and a Bureau of Land Management official to check it out.

Williams said he's alerted the Pacific Crest Trail Association and members of a much larger group of hikers, numbering in the hundreds, also making its way from Mexico to Canada. He said his three-man group was among the first to reach that part of the trail.

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[maxsolomon]

1. dirt bike deterrents?

goddamn environmental terrorists! first they sabotage that drilling platform and now this!
:sarcasm:

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Probably some "farmers" in that area don't want anyone stumbling on their "crop".

Farther north in California, around Humboldt, you don't dare wander off a hiking trail unless you want to get shot by a pot grower.

[amborin]

3. scary! we've run into survivalists in the Sespe Creek wildnerness....

apparently a fair # of them use the nat'l parks as a training grounds