[pct-l] Olallie Lake Resort

[ukstoveman at hotmail.com (David Toms)]

The story we were given this summer was as follows:

The parcels are delivered to a USFS station somewhere about 30miles away. 
Historically, the USFS have trucked them up to olallie every week or so 
during hiker season. In 05, the USFS didn't do this, and the first the 
resort knew of it was when hikers started turning up looking for parcels 
that hadn't arrived.

Eventually, the resort sent their own truck down to get all the parcels, at 
their own expense. By then it was too late for many hikers, but we (and I 
think many NOBOs behind us) were ok. The resort suggested that they might 
not want to hold packages in future if they have to go to the bother of 
collecting them. Given that they didn't seem to charge a fee in 05, I can 
understand why they wouldn't want to go to the effort and expense of 
providing this service.  I very much doubt its a conspiracy to get hikers to 
purchase from the store, it was pretty sparsely stocked.

It would be a pity if they stopped providing the service - maybe the 
solution is to offer them a fee. It seems to me that we've been pretty lucky 
in the past that the USFS and Olallie were prepared to swallow the cost of 
providing this service.

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