E-bikes on trails ... a good idea?

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@vernonbird

@prooftheory

I’m also not sure what I think about the not being able to walk “far” but not being “actually disabled”

Ever hear the term ‘lack of endurance’?
And said endurance can refer to pain threshold, stamina, or both.
You live long enough, & one fine morning you will wake up & you will feel every trauma you ever inflicted on your body… but it won’t be apparent to outside observers, since no bones are sticking out, no blood is leaking, & no limbs are missing.

@chenille

it’s actually not unusual for seniors only to be able to do so much exercise without hurting for the rest of the day, without that counting as a disability.

Agreed!
There is officially disabled, & there is de facto disabled.
I was told, in essence:
‘Well, you aren’t on oxygen, so your COPD isn’t enough of a disability; you can still walk, so your spinal issues don’t count: and you are getting old, so your CHF is par for the course.
DENIED!’
I knew the claim was doomed when You Know Who started residing in the White House, but the denial doesn’t mean that everything is hunky-dory, either.

That is a legitimate challenge. My understanding of the term “disabled” at least when it comes to accessibility with anything other than parking spaces, is that it somewhat depends on the individual to determine if they are disabled in a given context. My mother’s diabetic neuropathy would be something that I would want to count as a disability with regard trail access but I wouldn’t want to count my hearing impairment.

As for, “lack of endurance”, if you look at this thread, it is specifically this issue that I’m kind of interested in. If the 24-year-old ultramarathoner is able to climb up to see the petraglyphs does that mean that special accommodations should be made such that the 50-year-old 50-lbs-overweight but otherwise healthy guy should also be able to climb up to see the petraglyphs? Is the policy that they don’t develop the trails near them ableist?