The chains will help.  It might not keep everybody out but there are people who don't read the forums that will go out there and see that they are up and respect the trail and leave.  

In my opinion, these trail coordinators put in countless hours, give up free time that they could be riding bikes or doing something else they enjoy to make sure the rest of us have a place to ride.  It should be their call to open the trail or not.  Doesn't make a lot of sense to have a bunch of other people determining the open closed status.  People who don't work on that trail may have a skewed judgement on what is too wet or not.

I don't ride backyard very often just because it is a long haul for me to get there but is has been my experience that more often than not the trails are opened while still to wet to ride than waiting to long to open.

This is just my opinion, take it for what its worth.  

A road bike is the way to go when it rains every other day like it has been.

I am on the fence about getting a road bike because the one thing that "shouldn't" happen to me on my mountain bike is get hit by a car. 

sager wrote on 03/25/14 at 5:32pm: