[pct-l] Tuolumne Overrun by Thrus

[Stephen Clark]

Haven't had a chance to read all yet but I doubt the reason for closing the
mountain shop and gas station has anything to do with PCTers.

If you look back 35 years to 1980, the National Park Service adopted a
visionary master plan for Yosemite National Park that looked to a future in
which visitors could step into Yosemite "and find nature uncluttered by
piecemeal stumbling blocks of commercialism, machines and fragments of
suburbia." Major progress in reaching this goal, particularly in Yosemite
Valley, was to be achieved by 1990, the park's centennial year.

Progress toward the goal of the 1980 'master plan' has been achieved in
agonizingly small increments and obviously all the components of this
'master plan' still have not been achieved but today Yosemite is a somewhat
better place for the improvements that have been made.

The closing of some of these 'amenities' by the Park Service (if they
happen) is more likely just another step in achieving the goals of the 1980
'master plan.'

Quackers


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:36 PM, walt Durling <durlfam4 at icloud.com> wrote:

> The pics don't show trash strewn about the grounds.  Just one box with
> something overflowing it.  Doesn't look like much of a mess to me.  Most
> hikers are courteous and practice LNT.  If a successful business wants to
> close because of too much business from hikers, perhaps they shouldn't be
> in business where hikers amble by!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jul 17, 2015, at 13:13, Gail Van Velzer <vanvelzer at charter.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I read some of the other articles and it's atrocious!  They are closing
> a lot of the areas in Yosemite, like the ice rink...making it a parking
> lot, the tents in Curry Village are being removed, all the rental horses
> are being removed, the bicycle rental will be gone as well as the shuttle
> through Tuolumne Meadows.  Take a look and read the article for yourselves.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: <gary_schenk at verizon.net>
> > To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tuolumne Overrun by Thrus
> >
> >
> >>
> >> No tirade, Bob. Just a link some might find of interest. Or not.
> >>
> >> Here's another:
> >>
> http://www.myyosemite.com/content/yosemite-daily-photo-tuolumne-meadows-post-office-61015
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >> On 07/17/15, Bob Bankhead wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you Gary for pointing out yet another perfect example of a
> resupply
> >> spot causing a bottleneck, thus leading to hikers bunching up
> >> .
> >> We should launch a forum tirade and berate them mercilessly until they
> >> voluntarily close the place so as to stamp out this evil trailside
> >> bottleneck!
> >>
> >> WAIT! we forgot about Kennedy Meadows south. They are equally - maybe
> even
> >> more so - guilty of bottlenecking. They too must close. KM north has not
> >> reached critical mass and could remain open for now ..... but we should
> >> watch them closely in years to come.
> >>
> >> We need more pack stations and fewer bottlenecks!
> >>
> >> Hike on!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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