It is a safe supposition on my part to state that outdoor recreation has not increased 400% since last year (both front and backcountry).   The annual population increase of Metro Vancouver is 1.16%, and according to a senior government presenter at a MFLNRO meeting I attended, the number of hikers and backcountry users is annually increasing at a rate double that of Metro Vancouver (so around 2.3%).   These huge spikes of usage in some areas must be the result of other...