{"id":710,"date":"2008-02-21T21:56:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/710"},"modified":"2008-02-21T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:56:58","slug":"not-texas-bicycling-but-i-rode-the-maui-haleakala-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/not-texas-bicycling-but-i-rode-the-maui-haleakala-downhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Texas Bicycling But I Rode the Maui Haleakala Downhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadbikerider.com\/currentissue.htm#shorts\" target=\"_blank\"><b>from roadbikerider.com<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><b>Commercial  \t\t\tdownhill bike rides in Maui&#8217;s Haleakala National Park may be aloha,  \t\t\tas in goodbye.<\/b> The National Park Service temporarily stopped the  \t\t\tactivity last fall and will decide next month whether to make the  \t\t\tban permanent. Reason: Three people died in accidents on the descent  \t\t\tlast year, making the rides one of the most &quot;high-risk activities&quot;  \t\t\tat national parks, along with climbing Mount Rainier and rafting and  \t\t\tmule riding in the Grand Canyon. About 90,000 tourists per year pay  \t\t\t$100 to $150 for the coast down Haleakala, the world&#8217;s largest  \t\t\tdormant volcano. They are driven by a van to the 10,000-foot summit,  \t\t\tthen descend for about 38 miles (61 km) along a curvy two-lane  \t\t\thighway. Seven companies have permits to conduct bike tours through  \t\t\tthe park. The ban, if it happens, is not expected to apply to  \t\t\tnon-commercial cycling, which increased slightly in the park  \t\t\tfollowing the commercial suspension. Accident statistics aren&#8217;t kept  \t\t\ton independent riders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">I rode down in October 2001. The tour company I was with paid a lot of attention to safety.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from roadbikerider.com Commercial downhill bike rides in Maui&#8217;s Haleakala National Park may be aloha, as in goodbye. The National Park Service temporarily stopped the activity last fall and will decide next month whether to make the ban permanent. Reason: Three <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/not-texas-bicycling-but-i-rode-the-maui-haleakala-downhill\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}