Re: [pct-l] Pay to Hike Fees " PCT next!!! "

[Owen Kittredge <owenk@quiknet.com>]

Head out to the Basin and Range in Nevada and you can get  all the free camping
you want!

Montedodge@aol.com wrote:

>  With all our recent new park and forest service fees, I am becoming
> convinced that nothing is sacred with the area of new fees. Now Lake
> Roosevelt is charging 30.00 a year boat launch fee. I look for the forest
> service and park service to come up with a super permit to allow a thru-hike
> to do the PCT for a super price. ( of course they'll slip it to us an inch or
> an increase at a time )  Once fees are in place, they rise each year ( like
> our friendly cascade volcano permit system, free at first, then 15.00, then
> ???   ) After the passing  of 695 in Washington last month ( a motor vehicle
> excise tax ), our buddy's in Olympia have worked night and day to raise any
> fee possible. Soon our parks will be country clubs for rich singles and DINKS
> , ( double income, no kids ). Free unimproved campgrounds  now charge 9
> dollars a night which doesn't even go back into the forest service, but to
> the private contractors pocket who collects the fees. Remember when hikes
> involved just gassing up a VW bus and grabbing a few boxes of Mac-Cheese out
> of the cupboard. Soon hikers will need to provide  SAT scores along with all
> the other infor at each trailhead. The author of " 1984" wasn't too far off!!
>  A hike in Mt. Rainier Park is about as fun as a stroll with the NAZI  Youth
> Groups of the 30's. ( Police State)  Bottom Line ---- User fees are out of
> hand.
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