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Originally Posted by shovel
I can't speak for the East, but out West 99% or more of off-highway driving in street legal vehicles is done on legal trails. Legal trails as in [I]actual designated roads.
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I think you misunderstood me, or I misunderstood you. I'm not talking about driving on dirt roads, even rough dirt ones. I do that myself, because that's what a lot of the roads are around these parts, especially the ones that lead to trailheads & other good places to hike, bike, or ski. (Or fish or hunt, if that's what you enjoy.) But driving on existing roads is quite a different thing from the yahoo who takes off cross-country in his Hummer, leaving a trail of destruction behind.
The other point, of course, is that even if you're driving the dirt roads, you haven't quite left the noise & chaos of civilization behind - ok, I suppose your exhaust is technically behind you - because you're still driving a piece of it.
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...a dusty pair of tracks that would grow over in 5 years if left unused?
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Now I'm sure you don't live in northern Nevada, because things just don't grow that fast. There are places where you can still find the traces of covered wagons, a century and a half later. You just have to use your eyes to see what some of these off-road tracks do. A few of the yahoos get into a contest, for instance trying to drive straight up a steep hillside. That kills off the vegetation, and a few years later that track's become a deeply-eroded gully.