North Vancouver RCMP are now patrolling Mt. Fromme on foot and mountain bikes after the war in the woods turned nasty with a dust-up between a biker and a hiker twice last week.
Both the mountain biker and the hiker have been interviewed by the RCMP after two incidents, and the Mounties are now on patrol in the popular Fromme trail network.
The first incident took place last Tuesday on the Expresso trail, when a female mountain biker, who doesn’t want her name used, and Valerie Ramsey, 69, got into a heated exchange over trail use.
Ramsey, in her first interview since the brouhaha, admits to poking the mountain biker in the butt with the walking pole she uses when she hikes with her dogs.
“I guess I lost it,” Ramsey said in an interview while on vacation in Hawaii about her first encounter with the cyclist.
The second incident happened Friday at the bottom of the Pennzoil trail. In that altercation, Ramsey said she suffered a bite to her hand. She spoke with the RCMP and gave them a statement about the second encounter
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Last week’s two incidents came at the same time that North Van homeowner Tineke “Tina” Kraal, 64, was charged with setting or placing a trap with intent to injure, mischief by obstructing use of property and mischief in endangering life. She was arrested Jan. 4 at 5 a.m. at the Quarry Court trailhead.
RCMP said they had been probing allegations of trail-tampering and setting booby traps last year. Logs and rocks had been placed in strategic locations, and De Jong said it was fortunate no one was seriously hurt or killed.
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