To the editor:
Over six or more years a dedicated group of volunteers in Lake Country has devoted their time to identifying, marking, mapping and clearing walking trails on Spion Kop Mountain.
Our efforts have been very well received by residents of the Okanagan and visitors, and we estimate up to 10,000 walkers are now using these trails annually.
Sadly some users of the trails seem to have little respect for this public environment and have vandalized both the trails and the signs that we have provided—they have been forcibly removed or even burned off, harming some of the trees.
This is not the first time this has happened. I do hope by writing this letter that whoever is responsibly for this desecration of a lovely and accessible environment will be shamed into venting their spoliation acts elsewhere if they cannot stop themselves.
Peter Withers,
member, Walk Around Lake Country
