Word: atvs
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...immediately dismounted, staggered in a circle and approached my fans, who had gathered along the fence. Fourteen-year-old Brian Rylander, who was sitting on an ATV and used to own a go-cart monster truck, said he thought I was a professional. I handed him an autograph reading "To Brian: Keep on monstering--Air Joel" that he clearly didn't want...
...immediately dismounted, staggered in a circle and approached my fans, who had gathered along the fence. Fourteen-year-old Brian Rylander, who was sitting on an ATV and used to own a go-cart monster truck, said he thought I was a professional. I handed him an autograph reading "To Brian: Keep on monstering - Air Joel" that he clearly didn't want...
...plain terms how the monument will destroy their way of life. "This is devastating," says cattleman Mike Dauenhauer, who owns a 12,000-acre spread but wants his cows to continue their subsidized grazing on public lands. Also balking, albeit to a lesser extent, are motorcycle riders and ATV enthusiasts, who would be cut off from their favorite trails and meadows...
...ride up the same trail on an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is to gun a Harley Fat Boy through the yoga class, whooping a great big belly laugh as you send leotarded pixies running for cover. In an hour, you can cover more terrain than you can walk in half a day. Two hours of wrestling your machine up the mountain and you're at 11,000 ft.--in a hallowed piece of Rocky Mountain forest where the air is light and the trees fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers...
...Ribbon Coalition of motorized recreationists, calls the greens "elitist." Many of his fellow drivers see their enemies either as rich ski folk defending their million-dollar chalets along the Volvo/Chardonnay line or as REI-outfitted granola eaters who want the backcountry to themselves. The greens in turn view the ATV crowd as an emission-spewing, beer-guzzling NASCAR subset that stops to smell the flowers only after running over them...