>>1077293Illegal in US designated Wilderness. Any form of transportation of anything on land, air, or water with "moving parts" is banned.
> Mechanical Transport. Any contrivance for moving people or material in or over land, water, or air, having moving parts, that provides a mechanical advantage to the user, and that is powered by a living or nonliving power source. This includes, but is not limited to, sailboats, hang gliders, parachutes, bicycles, game carriers, carts, and wagons. It does not include wheelchairs when used as necessary medical appliances. It also does not include skis, snowshoes, rafts, canoes, sleds, travois, or similar primitive devices without moving parts.https://www.cornellcollege.edu/politics/courses/allin/355/usfs-wilderness-manual.pdfStrictly interpreted, this also includes hiking poles with shock-absorbers (the moving parts), fishing reels (the reel rotates, pulling in line, transporting the fish through water), rowboats (the oarlock is a fulcrum for the oar, a lever, which gives a mechanical advantage), etc., etc.
