[pct-l] Bearikade rental

[Len Glassner]

At last year's PCT KO, I suggested to Sherri Lisius (NPS person) that
they might make some rentals available to PCT hikers at some
convenient (for a thru-hiker) point (Hiker Heaven, maybe?)  prior to
Sierra entry.  We then exchanged a some emails on the subject, but I
haven't heard anything since May.  Probably died in the bureaucracy.
I just sent off an email follow-up

It later occurred to me that their cans were Garcias, and perhaps no
PCT thru-hiker would carry the weight.

On 12/4/07, Donna L-Rod Saufley <dsaufley at sprynet.com> wrote:
> I've been hesitant to jump into this discussion because I don't have all the facts, but this past August when Jeff and I picked up our permit for Sections I-K at the Tuolumne ranger station, my jaw dropped to see what looked to be over one hundred Garcia's on the shelf in a room adjacent to the counter.  When I asked the young woman at the desk why they had so many, she stated "since we require that backpackers carry approved bear cans, we have to provide them."  She also added that other ranger stations had similar numbers of cans available to use, and that there were more than a thousand available at various stations.
>
> Unfortunately, since we already had BV400s and I was so excited to finally get going on our hike that I did not ask how much they cost to rent, or how the program worked. My bad. But maybe someone out there knows about this program and can share the info.
>
> L-Rod
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Kent Spring <kjssail at yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Dec 3, 2007 9:13 PM
> >To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> >Subject: [pct-l] Bearikade rental
> >
> >I was just surfing the web and found that
> >www.wild-ideas.net carries the Bearikade and will rent
> >them out.  The Expedition is $6 for the first three
> >days, and $3 a day after that, plus you pay the
> >shipping.  That would seem be a better deal than
> >buying one for $275.  There are probably other places
> >that do a similar service.
> >
> >Kent
> >
> >
> >
> >
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