How many dollars can one spend phoning a toll free number?
I feel that the present distribution system is fair enough. We all have to
wait on the same list and we all have the same chance at getting a
cancellation. If your life style has got you shackled to your work
schedule, preventing you from going with 3 weeks notice or even making the
toll free phone calls to pick up a cancellation, then you have made the
life choices that will forever make it difficult or impossible.
I for one have quit multiple jobs (one job 3 times and was re-hired twice)
to go on extended whitewater trips. If you are not willing to make the
sacrifice, stop crying about those who make the sacrifice happily. Maybe
you just don't want it bad enough? Maybe you like to cry. It's certain
that the Grand Canyon isn't Grand enough for you!
We've just got too many boaters and not enough Grand Canyons. But waiting
for the Canyon is a much better choice than destroying it by admitting too
many. It's the non-transfer policy that I find to be too stiff. I believe
that permits should be transferable, at the request of the permit holder, in
the case of the death, divorce, injury or illness of that permit holder.
Why should a planned and prepared trip be refused access to the river
because the permit holder cannot go? Because they broke their leg at the
put it? (The way the regs read, it could happen.) After all, they waited
their time and invited their friends. They paid their money EVERY year.
Their trip should go on if they want it to!
Life is a,
Butch
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