Well, they didn't have a picnic table but they had a camping stove and a frying pan and were browning some hot dogs for lunch, right there in the downhill lane of a shady wooded section of MUP.
Riding up towards them I was expecting to see the body they seemed to be leaning over and patching up or resuscitating and was getting ready to dismount and contribute any help I could, until it became clear that it wasn't an accident aftermath but rather an accident precursor, complete with frying pan and hot dogs!
Couple of adults, gaggle of pre-teen kids. I can't fathom what they were thinking - no awareness the trail had parking lots a mile ahead and behind? "Oh, hey, lets set up the stove on the pavement so we don't set fire to the underbrush"?
Somehow I just wasn't in a mood to pick a fight nor was the guy I was riding with, but we made a point to warn the next few bikes we saw headed down hill, and invited them to take issue with it.
Last edited by UniChris; 06-29-19 at 05:11 PM.