It was the best of Trails, the worst of Trails

Winky and Kadizzle had to lay low while the estate was shown in Hazen.  Off to the Badlands once more we headed with the ebikes.  In segments we have been doing the Ma Da Hey Trail.  On this trip we hit the jackpot.  The trail was just stunning.  North Dakota does have some wonderful spots.  Some of the turns were so sharp dropping down to the Little Missouri that you had to come to a complete stop at the switchback.  OK,  that is the good news.  Now the bad, in the infinite stupidity of regulations carried out to the extreme bikes cannot be taken into the wilderness portion of the Badlands.  Kadizzle generally agrees with this rule, but every rule has it's short comings.  In this case it meant somehow we had to skirt about two miles of the wilderness on bikes.  Now it was obvious other people had tried to do this, but what it meant was we had to take a bypass that pretty much, did not exist.  In fact it did not exist.  Pushing the bikes and riding through brush we were not able to get by the protected part of the park.  A couple simple solutions exist.  First they could build a bypass, second they could make an exception.  The trial we needed did briefly wander into the sacred territory.  If they let bikers use the sacred portion of the trail they would be on it for less than ten minutes.  The reality is no one is way back in that part of the Badlands except the people on foot and bikers.  It is just the classic case of an insane application of a rule.  The intent is good, but the outcome is not.  Anyway perhaps if Kadizzle becomes awake this morning he will ad a video or picture to this post later.