Seems like a tempest in a teapot....

How do you damage a salt flat? Looks like fun.

Bonneville has been getting so much rain due to the climate change drought that they have not been able to hold the races anyways.

Now on the other hand, going off the boardwalks at Yellowstone can get you killed. Easily. I would just chalk one up to Darwin there.

Looks rather epic to me.....

Seems no one would have known it even happened, if these guys didn't post it.

What is the Vancouver-based clothing brand?

I'd like to send them a NastyGram.

And I might be interested in buying their products!

To boldly go where and make tracks where no bureaucrat has gone before!

You are hopeless!

Well, think about it for a moment. What's the battle cry of most every enviro conservative that has ever existed?

"We are setting this land aside for future generations to enjoy."

Well given it was past generations who put that land aside I and others are now one of those "future generations" and many of us want to go out and enjoy that land dammit!

They put it there for us to enjoy and did not specify which generation or how it should be enjoyed, just that some undefined future generation should enjoy it in some undefined way.

Well, you have proven over and over that you have contempt for any preservation of natural resources for future generations past your own, so I understand your childish "gimme" attitude.

Hate to poke sticks at a lost cause, but attempting to maintain the status quo forever IS a lost cause.

It sounds like the loss of salt from Bonneville is a natural process, leaching of salt into the soil over time. Any time you pit yourself against any change of any sort, you commit yourself to an exponential requirement of energy and money to oppose entropy.

I suppose the next act in this is to bus in salt from high salt neighborhoods with appropriate administrative overhead, plenty of hired bureaucrats, enforcers and appropriate laws, restrictions and regulations to make the salt stick around. Probably have to set up shoe washing stations to keep folks from tracking salt off the flats.

"It sounds like the loss of salt from Bonneville is a natural process, leaching of salt into the soil over time."

JP, you're only looking at half the system. The salt leaches into the soil over time, AND, rainwater washes the salt from the soil onto the Salt Flats over time. After a while, the system reaches equilibrium.

What has changed the equilibrium has been the BLM allowing Potash mining in the local area, and allowing the 'waste salt' from the potash mining to be sold off and carted away, removing it from the Salt Flats system. If the BLM forbids the sale of 'waste salt,' or denies the licenses to mine Potash, then the Salt Flats will stop degrading, nd may even start recovering.

My point (is missed, again) is that I have no problem with evolution. I DO have a problem with idiots wantonly damaging sensitive lands, and then being encouraged by others who have no regard for common sense or laws.

What these farts did is rather selfish. In other words, they took from others ^{the 98%} for themselves ^2%....

I sent their Facebook website a couple of flaming posts.

Won't do any good I know.

Mid life Affluenza.

Apparently they don't mind alienating "most of America" if it raises their product awareness with their target demographic: Thrill-seeking assholes who want to trash Nature for kicks.

Perhaps we need a new directive for the National Parks: Anyone wearing clothing with the logo of the High On Life company is to be denied entry, on the grounds that supporting that company is evidence of Indent to Damage the Park.

" evidence of Indent to Damage the Park."

Sadly, indentation is not a crime.

"I sent their Facebook website a couple of flaming posts.

Won't do any good I know.

Mid life Affluenza."

You'd be surprised. The last post the organization did was on May 31, and their page has been silent since then. I guess they realized another apology message would only be met with derision; "You said you were sorry and 'it won't happen again' LAST time, why should we believe you now?" Also, their store page, which used to have a "We'll be back soon" placeholder message, is now completely 404. Kind of hard to make money on The Merch if there's to table to sell it from.

"Mass Social Media Trolling" has struck again, only this time, it smote someone who deserved it for once.

The 'future generations' WERE enjoying it. the Salt Flats were used for speed trials. And as far as I can tell, It was open for public use. You might have had to pay a small fee to get your 'take-a-turn' ticket, but considering all the people out there taking care of safety and logistics, it only seemed fair that they get compensated for their time and effort.

You can 'enjoy' a forest by walking down the nature hike trail and observing the beauty around you. You don't need to take a dirt bike and do donuts in a pristine clearing, tearing up the soil and leaving nothing but a muddy pit for the hikers behind you.

Maybe we should crush and spread retired navy, coast guard and merchant mariners. No salts like old salts.

History ain't what it used to be. (Yogi Berra?)

Hey, be kind. I personally think Old Salt is a useful guru and a valuable member of CR4.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/member/4951/old-salt

Don't tell me you've never heard of the guy.

Anyone who can quote Kermit the Frog has got to be worth keeping around.

Agent; "I have to catch a plane Kermit";

Kermit, "With that tongue? No way"!

Stick around Lyn, we may have a use for you after all.

Good luck with that. After 8 years no one has found a use for me yet.

Ah, but we have found a use:

You, along with other valued members, help to keep the 'moron population' here low. Anyone who storms off in a cloud of - what are the kids on the interwebs galling it these days? Ah yes, 'butthurt.' - in a cloud of 'butthurt' from your insightful sarcasm over their stupid question is not the sort of person who would make a good member of CR4, nor would they understand and appreciate the help we forum members could give, assuming their question is even coherent enough to answer.

"...to really give you a (PUCKER FACTOR) of 12 on a 1-10 scale."

I know this is a high factor, but it's hard to get a real feel for HOW high it is. I'm basing it on the reference of PF 10 = "You need a proctologist to recover the pants/jumpsuit you were wearing at the time of the Event." Where would 12 be on that chart? as 10, but substitute 'skin' for 'pants/jumpsuit'? total body inversion ("you have puckered yourself inside out")? The mind boggles trying to find a comparison.

Believe me when I say this it takes several days to come down off an adrenalin rush from an incident like that. You only have to get upside down going 200+ to realize what your entire life can mean to you, in the here and now and in the future. It really make you take stock in the things that really matter to you, like family and friends. Now the guy that has an incident and crawls out and wants to get right back into another car is the one that scares me, as I feel like he has a death wish and I want no part of the party he is headed for. No matter how you stack it up it takes a while to regain your composure and get your head back into the game. Believe me it takes a lot out of you to just crawl back into a car and start the engine after an accident of those perportions. It just isn't something you shake off in a few minutes or hours.

Lets invite them to Letchworth State Park in western NY, and let them go over the falls like that family did last week when they ventured off the legal trails. That'll teach them a thing or two.

I'm not an overly violent person, but I think we've all had enough of this, these Canadians are walking all over us and it's time we did something about it.

It's time to INVADE CANADA!

We'll send in one squad of Army recruits and two Boy Scout troops to force their way through the Apologizing Masses and take over the capitol, assuming anyone in America can figure out where that is up there.

Let's just build a fence, and make them pay for it.

No, the topic was flattened by the High on Life vandals and finished off by the maniac North Dakota tire burner.

Maybe the time of high speed driving on the salt flats is over, and the time of salt flat skiing has just begun...