"The Internet has been a tremendous boon for us to be able to reach out to thousands of people and share the word with them. You know, tread lightly. Stay on the trail. Don't build new trails," she says, adding that following the rules will be rewarded with more areas to ride in or more areas being opened up.

Crowder says she doesn't have a problem with cops perusing her site, noting that members already police each other to put their sport in the best possible light.

"Where someone may post up and say, 'Look what I did! I did this horrible thing I should not have been doing,' a large group of peers will generally jump on that and discipline that person online and kind of teach them a lesson about what's right and what's wrong."

Crowder doesn't want the face of her sport to be defined by YouTube postings depicting questonable activity.

It's also not a failsafe crimefighting method for the cops. Some people who post on YouTube do cover their license plates or otherwise conceal their identity. Which goes to show why officers consider the Internet useful, but it's no substitute for getting out into the woods.