Scratch Grand Teton off your summer list
- Thread starter BelemNole
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Gross Venture campground. 10 minutes to either Jackson or the NP.
Incredible location. Had moose wandering through my campsite this past fall.
Incredible location. Had moose wandering through my campsite this past fall.
Holy f*ck this is the worst take I’ve read in weeks.
The conservatives don't mind people lining their pockets, but only if it’s them. And that's why you would pay more.
So get Aramark to take care of park facilities?
I wonder what they will charge..
I'm currently driving home from hiking five different national parks (Utah and GCNP--sore as hell right now), and I can confirm what you say. NPS probably does more with less than any other federal agency, and its budget is basically a rounding error in the grand scheme (<0.067%). Some people are so blindly anti-government when they perceive it doesn't benefit them that rational thought eludes them. Never thought I'd see the day when the fvcking national parks came under attack by nutjobs but here we are. Not that those types ever get off their asses to explore a national park.
Anyway, I hope you have a great trip! Four days in the canyon-- are you going rim to rim (to rim)? I was there Monday and yesterday. If you're hiking Bright Angel, it was very icy for the first mile or so down from the rim (until about lower tunnel), but I guess a lot can change in two weeks there. If needed, the general store was selling crampons for $30 a pair. Don't worry @The Tradition, it isn't run by NPS and there wasn't a park ranger working the register, you unnatural noise.
You're wrong in virtually every way in this thread, but let's assume for the sake of amusement you're correct about the privatization farce. Do you really think that privatizing some small portion of the NPS will make anything smaller than a pea sized dent in the federal deficit or debt? Or that any of the other targets of these DOGE clowns will for that matter? As others have said, history shows privatization often increases costs long term. You can pretend that we save money on salaries and benefits, but the truth is those costs are baked into the contract rates with private entities, and the market set up by a privatization scheme almost always lacks the scale to provide real competition, thus leaving the taxpayer to pay the same or often higher rates for the same services, just with some private industry lining its pockets instead.
Defense spending is nearly half of the discretionary budget each year. I agree federal spending is too high and the interest on the debt is a growing problem. But if you were even remotely sincere about fiscal responsibility instead of constantly flogging whatever whipping boy du jour the talking heads told you to be mad about, then maybe you would set your sights higher than a tiny fraction of 0.067% of the annual federal budget.
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Were you always a piece of shit human and I just never saw it?
Ads bro. Look at all of that potential billboard space on the Teton range
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
Yeah it is my second annual rim to rim to rim. Going down south Kaibob, 3 nights in the canyon and on the ascent we will traverse to get to bright angel (parts of bright Angel and all of phantom ranch are closed for waterline repairs - hoping they don’t stop those halfway through out of Doge ignorance).
Good tip on crampons. I have all the necessary gear, last year I was pushing through 3 feet of snow at the north rim without snowshoes. Full hike with side quests is 50 miles, 12K feet of elevation. Should be amazing.
How do the non govt bathroom attendants get paid?
The Govt has no business running a military. The Armed forces need to be privatized NOW. There is enough war potential to lure an outside vendor. It would be much better for the American taxpayer.
You have no clue what it is like having a job outside of being a left wing activist funded by taxpayers.
I’ll defer to your experience. If there’s anyone that knows what it’s like to suck the teet of the American taxpayer their whole life it’s a welfare queen from shithole Clayton county Ioway! THE FOOKIN’ HITMAN PLANNING ON CRUSHING SOY BOYS AND SPRITE ON HORT DIS MORNING! (Sorry @LunchBox50 i suck at this)
You’re a really miserable person. Instead of ridiculing people the Hawkeye Beacon. You need to go to betterhelp.com. You need someone to talk to about dealing with your failures in life.
You’re a stupid phuck from shithole Ioway with nothing going on in their life that will never amount to anything and won’t have anyone attend their funeral. But I love you being on HORT. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Never leave here. Please!
You need to step away from the internet for a while until you can deal with your problems in life. The best things you can do is find some activities that are beneficial to you and society. Instead of being a useless leech.
When I need advice from a Clayton county Ioway loser who hasn’t worked an honest day in his life I’ll ask for it.
Like any of the HORT bozos care. Everybody here is about an inch deep when it comes to substance. That said, I’ve found USAjobs a great place to start looking when I wonder what government job descriptions are. Here’s one with NPS even filtered for you. 1% of the time I’m here to help.
Tradition is the rivals boards Godfather of bad takes. Top 0.01%.
Tx and bummer that it doesn’t have one listed. I have no idea whether we need 1, 17, or 150 at Teton but it certainly doesn’t sound like it has much to do with most of the discussion in this thread, or something that would necessarily dissuade me from visiting Teton. .
It’s not going to be as good of resource as in the past. Usually you could always find something similar to get an idea of what the job responsibilities are for any position. I haven’t poked around to find prior postings but maybe it’s there.
It’s almost like something happened recently that is impacting posting of new positions.
Some are still just waking up to the fact pissing away trillions of dollars has consequences. Hell, Stacey Abrahms was set to receive 2B for a make believe green org! The fall out from the dem corruption orgy will hurt for a while. Welcome to adulting.
This post is super subtlety slutty. Nice work.
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
I’m glad you’re finally looking for a job. It’s a start in the right direction for turning your life around.
DA HAWKI97 NEEDS TO GET OUT OF DA INTERSTATE BATHHOUSES AND STOP EATING ALL DA SEMEN AND SOY, AND QUIT BEING A RADICAL MARXIST LEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAYBE IF THAT LIBTAHD LOSAH WOULD STOP WORSHIPING DA BERNIE AND DA SQUAD AND DA CHE GUEVARA AND DA BERRIES HUSSEIN, HE COULD BE A TRUE FOOKIN ALPHA DAWG PATRIOT LIKE ME AND DA HAWKEYE HITMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE OWN SOUTHERN CLAYTON COUNTY AND ALWAYS HAVE A FRIDGE FULL OF ICE COLD CANS OF SPRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE GET ALL DA RURAL IOWA PUSS AND CAN'T WAIT FOR TRUMP TO MAKE DA ILLEGALS BUILD DA CASSVILLE BRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AFTER THAT, ALL YOU LEFTIST SOCIALISTS WHO LOVE DA DEEP STATE WILL BE TAKEN OUT BY TRUMP AND DA ELON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So not only do I pay taxes to maintain the park but I now have to pay exhorbitant fees to get into the park as well.
How about this. . . how about some red state preferably not mine try that out with their state parks and see how it goes in 5 or 10 years before we try this shit with national parks.
I don't want it to be mine because I like my state parks. Those government employees do a damn good job.
