I just participated in my second (and FINAL) event with X-Dog Events. Has anyone else ever participated in any of their events?

This last summer, someone on the OBRA list posted their concern about the lack of consideration for the environment with regards to an unnamed event organization (which was obviously X-Dog). The post was about how a scrambling course went right through protected Salmon spawning grounds and such...without the proper notification and permits.

Yesterday's race seemed to take everything anyone of us know or have learned about preserving trails and leaving no trace on our surroundings completely out the window. Let's just say there was a lot of "encouraged" traffic in sensitive/no-trail areas and very little care taken to keep from widening already existing trails.

Your thoughts?

-will