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ping Mike McCrea Little Tupper Time
On 24 Feb 2004 06:56:02 -0800, (Mike McCrea)
wrote:
George wrote in message
[...]
Ah this makes sense, I wondered what would happen if you got to the
choosen campsite to find less then desirerable, you would have to
return to the tote board to change camp sites.
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In talking with the Rangers it appears that this was a not infrequent
occurance, with an even worse strategic reaction - some folks knowing
that this happens were flipping two or three tags in an effort to
increase their chances of finding an unoccupied site; the sites they
flipped but didn't use of course apeared to be occupied when looking
at the board.
And then there is the issue of having to paddle back to the put in if
you wanted to move on to another site later in the trip. All in all
those site occupancy boards created more problems than they solved,
and I thing pretty much every place in the Adirondacks except
Stillwater did away with them and went to a simple paddle out, first
come-first serve system.
I like this system and it worked fine on our trip up the Osteopathies
River.
What didn't work was the time we were in Algonquin Park and we were
informed that our chosen route may not be passable due to low water
levels, on our permits they put down our chosen campsites and also
gave us some alternate campsites. We ended up going to the alternate
sites, but around 5 pm another party came around saying they were also
given the same campsite. It worked out in the end, as our site was
hugh and we were happy to share as was the other party.
Algonquin seems to be running at full capacity on weekends all summer,
except for the deepest of interior site (3 days travel or more.)
George
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