Maybe they will sell Nalgene bottles. And people will use them once for their visit and then toss them.
PC run utterly amok.
That’s just brilliant. I guess they don’t care that visitors will be dropping from dehydration on the trails in the summertime because they couldn’t buy a stinkin’ bottle of water for their hike.
“Free water stations are available throughout the park to allow visitors to fill reusable water bottles.”
Stupidity is a person’s right I guess should they choose to head out without water.
You can bring refillable bottles. There are water stations to fill the bottles. We were just at the Grand Canyon last summer and this is what we did.
Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid.
Making the effort to visit the Grand Canyon in summer without making the effort to take water is stupid.
At least by selling Nalgene bottles there will be less trash left out there, and what the stupids do leave out there will be reusable by others. 1 expensive bottle found and reused is better than 12 chincy bottles not worth recycling (much less reused by finder).
Sometimes PC and Conservative do sorta line up. Neither think it’s sensible to facilitate idiots littering.
If I'm going to the Grand Canyon(or anywhere else) for a hike, I'm not going to count on them selling water at the location. I would bring my own.
Stupid comment. There are many, many, many places throughout the Grand Canyon National Park where people can fill up their own container that is not intended to be disposible -- you know, the plastic containers available at just about every mini-mart and gift shop for about $2.00. I wish we didn't need a regulation like this, but when you have incredibly selfish, stupid, indifferent people who leave their trash behind, then unfortunately, we all have to suffer.
There is also the fiscal issue: Garbage is expensive and when the gov't is running trillion dollar deficits, every penny counts. I wish every gov't agency made a real effort to cut costs. A million here and a million there adds up to a lot of millions, which become billions. Time to suck it up.
Ya beat me to it!
They DO sell those bottles now!
Where in the area do they not have water fountains, you do know what a water fountain is??? http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/refilling_stations.htm
I've read rescue reports from out of MOAB about a couple who were rafting or kayaking or something on the Colorado, below Moab in Cayonlands.
Seems they got tossed into the drink and lost all their stuff.
They made it to shore just fine, and they were found a few days later by others going down the river.
The man had died of dehydration. Yup, you heard that right!!
The woman said he REFUSED to drink the river water because he was afraid of ingesting Giardia lamblia; thereby getting sick!
20 years ago there wasn’t bottled water available at all, yet somehow we survived, even in the Grand Canyon and throughout the desert areas. Now everyone is carrying a bottle of water all the time. It’s pathetic how the sheeple have bought into the hyper-hydration myth, where if you don’t drink X amount of water daily you’re going to die, so you MUST carry water with you at all times. FEH!