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Hiking in Californiapiero scaruffi | Support this websiteSubtitled: "I am both the hiker and the trail" "Solvitur ambulando" ("It is solved by walking") as the wandering scholars of medieval Europe had it |
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Peaks of the Sierra Nevada | Eastern Sierra map |
Bureaucracy"Red tape" has been escalating in all state and national parks, and even in national forests. The modern ranger is a desk bureaucrat whose full-time job is to issue "wilderness permits", if not a Nazi-style police officer paid to treat hikers like terrorists. Contrary to what you read in the papers, all these agencies (state parks, national parks and national forests) have a virtually infinite amount of money, and they can afford to hire a virtually infinite number of "rangers" to enforce a virtually infinite number of rules. The "wilderness" is rapidly being transformed into a concentration camp. If you care for the wilderness, write to your representative and/or senator demanding a cut in the budget of these agencies. These are the only budgets that keep growing regardless of how the economy does. Ask that the money be spent to build much needed public transportation to the parks. Finally, ask that unelected officials not be allowed to create rules and regulations that will affect thousands of hikers.General links about hikingOther epic hikes of my life |
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