Editor:
How about some warning? My dog and I are seniors; we go for our morning walk in the woods. At 8 a.m. on Canada Day we entered the woods at the trail head at the top of Selma Park Road. This trail joins up with the main trail that runs from the power line clearing above the gravel pit, all the way to Davis Bay. The vegetation has grown very high on both sides, and you can't see what's coming around a bend. We'd walked about 20 feet up the main trail when suddenly and without a sound, a pack of mountain bikes came around a bend at break-neck speed.
I lunged and grabbed my dog and pulled him to the side of the trail as dozens of cyclists flew past. It was a miracle that my dog and I weren't run down. If the first cyclist around the bend had hit my dog - or me - the bikes behind would have piled into him and all fallen on us in a heap. My old dog could have been paralyzed or killed, and I could have ended up in the hospital.
There were no signs at the trail head or on the main trail, and I saw nothing in the paper that informed the public that this forest trail was a BC Bike Race route. I am not the only person who walks my dog on that trail in the mornings. I know that sports "rule" - but this arrogant disregard for public safety is totally unacceptable.
Cecilia Ohm-Eriksen
Selma Park
