Last week I was hiking around Tubbs Hill in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. There are spots where you can jump off the rocks into the lake — it’s really fun on a hot summer day. I met a couple from Ohio on a western states tour. The wife asked me “Are they allowed to do that?”
LOL. What a mentality. I told her Idaho is about the most free state in the country and people largely do what they want without restrictions (and not breaking the law). She was flabbergasted that there weren’t railings, signs about falling, and “No jumping” signs all over.
Even some people in the USA have a hard time with freedom!
” There are spots where you can jump off the rocks into the lake — it’s really fun on a hot summer day.”
We used to have places such as that in our county. Swimming holes in old granite quarries where the water was crystal clear and no one complained if you trespassed on the property. Then, the college students in a nearby county discovered the spot. The would come in, get high or drunk, and a several drowned over the space of a few years. The county then required the property owners to fence in the swimming holes and put up “no trespassing” signs. The locals were then deprived of the places they had frequented for decades. All because of the stupidity and failure to follow basic safety rules by out-of-towners. Don’t jump into water you don’t know the depth of or what is beneath the surface. The locals knew every rock and stump in those holes, but college students didn’t. The left ruins everything!
I’ll have to check that out. Are there places to ride the e-MTB around the area?