Government Shut down - Trails Affected?

[G2WANIT]

Too bad they won't be emptying the pooper at my campsite! Hope this doesn't mean my group site reservation is no longer valid... They have $415 of mine!

 

[DrMoab]

Too bad they won't be emptying the pooper at my campsite! Hope this doesn't mean my group site reservation is no longer valid... They have $415 of mine!

Right? Because obviously they are too broke to pay you back.

Government. The new drug addicted brother in law.

 

[XJEEPER]

I'm working on alternate runs if we end up needing to replace Shaffer Trail and Elephant Hill on Saturday. Thanks for providing info upthread, I tried to post it this morning, but was off-line.

On a related note, this may all be fixed by next Saturday...... http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/01/House-to-pass-bills-to-reopen-national-parks--VA

 

[macgyvr]

I tried to post it this morning, but was off-line.

mac 'I had to hit the reset button' gyvr

 

[XJEEPER]

I suspected that Glenn had our forum loaded on a .gov server.......aaargh!

 

[macgyvr]

I reset it before he even knew about it.

mac 'cat like reflexes' gyvr

 

[RAM-ROD]

I'm working on alternate runs if we end up needing to replace Shaffer Trail and Elephant Hill on Saturday. Thanks for providing info upthread, I tried to post it this morning, but was off-line.

On a related note, this may all be fixed by next Saturday...... http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/01/House-to-pass-bills-to-reopen-national-parks--VA

That is great news for many reasons.......

Ram" Going to be epic" Rod

 

[Vince]

Sounds like we are still good then. I never even considered the permit for the whole event being in jeopardy. I knew that the blm wouldn't shut trails down.

Looks like we need to find alt trails for Elephant Hill and Shaffer trail.

I remember having to give the BLM a list of trails that we intended to run when I helped with the 2009 fling. Will it cause problems with the BLM if alternative trails are selected that are not on the list?

 

[DrMoab]

I remember having to give the BLM a list of trails that we intended to run when I helped with the 2009 fling. Will it cause problems with the BLM if alternative trails are selected that are not on the list?

It shouldn't. As long as the trails are "approved" trails which are basically the EJS trails we should be fine.

 

[jmaxj]

Re: Re: Government Shut down - Trails Affected?

I remember having to give the BLM a list of trails that we intended to run when I helped with the 2009 fling. Will it cause problems with the BLM if alternative trails are selected that are not on the list?

Edit*** the Doc beat me to it.

 

[Fore Wheeler]

Who's gonna be there to check if we are on the right trails?

 

[jmaxj]

The park rangers I heard they still will be patrolling but they are very very short handed.

 

[DrMoab]

The park rangers I heard they still will be patrolling but they are very very short handed.

Ive never heard of a naxja group being bothered about permitted trails. Have you?

 

[XJEEPER]

Not I.

 

[jmaxj]

Nope.....I was just stating they'll be on duty still.

 

[RedHeep]

 

[Turfzilla]

The park rangers I heard they still will be patrolling but they are very very short handed.

I read this on the interweb: There are 750 BLM employees in Utah, all but 6 are furlough. I would say this qualifies as short handed!!

 

[RedHeep]

When you say park rangers, this is all I can think about.

 

[jmaxj]

Re: Re: Government Shut down - Trails Affected?

I read this on the interweb: There are 750 BLM employees in Utah, all but 6 are furlough. I would say this qualifies as short handed!!

As of two months ago they had 3 available to patrol canyonlands and and 2 for the surrounding area. That's about 20 less of they're usual amount. Its not cause of the government shutdown I say they're short handed its because they really are. They may have 750 employees for the state but that don't mean much when many ate office employees

When you say park rangers, this is all I can think about.

Hope we don't run into those guys they were put on the naughty list haha

 

[Boatwrench]

The trail I was looking forward to was Elephant Hill. Looks like that is out as I doubt the gang on the hill will settle this stalemate in the next week.