Re: Airplanes, rafts, and mules
Doug is right. The tourism lobbies have deep pockets and will typically get what they want. Mule Wranglers not so much. It was the trail repair costs due...
JoshC 2011-02-03 14:16:40 #63978
Airplanes, rafts, and mules
I sympathize with the intent of John's comment here, but have to say that results on these issues are often unsuccessful for reasons other than lack of...
DougN 2011-02-03 14:03:14 #63977
Re: Are we in the golden years yet?
Most people get pretty ornery when you screw around with their source of
subsistence and it sure seems like that's what this new mule-ride quota is
going to...
John 2011-02-03 13:10:05 #63976
Re: Female through-hiker?
You're welcome. Although Bob Marley has reminded me that one of George Steck's long canyon hikes was Lees Ferry to Lava, not Lees Ferry to Grand Wash Cliffs,...
davidianmarcus 2011-02-03 10:48:58 #63975
Re: Are we in the golden years yet?
I wonder if that wrangler was the same one who got tased by the ranger at the canteen at Phantom. She (ranger) tried to get him out of the canteen after he...
Steve Nelson 2011-02-03 10:30:06 #63974
Re: Are we in the golden years yet?
Most people over 50 are not capable of hiking the canyon, and the most ardent hikers I've met have been at or beyond 50 -- can both be true. A few years back...
DougN 2011-02-03 10:08:42 #63973
Re: Are we in the golden years yet?
One of my favorite memories of people I met hiking in the Canyon was in 1986, when I was 29. We passed a couple in their 70s hiking down the South...
Marsha Kesselring 2011-02-03 09:49:49 #63972
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