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I June of last year I met hikers being dropped at the Dog Lake/JMT trailhead in Lyell Canyon.? I don't know when it was discontinued, but they had enough drivers in June.

Doesn't YARTS serve as the "hiker bus" in the absence of the shuttle?? Totally inadequate schedule, but at least provides some service, I believe.? I have used it to get from the Va;;ey to Tuolumne conveniently when the Tuolumne Backpackers camp was open, but not so much from the Valley BP camp for a decent start, but enough time to get that first 4 miles on day one.

I think something ought to be said and more widely understood about what the concessionaire is required to do, what they have excused themselves from doing, and why.? If indeed they are not required to provide the hiker shuttle, do we think they are going to do it out of the goodness of their corporate heart?? This, as with so many other aspects of the concessionaire's contract performance, is a? complete failure on the part of the Park Service to establish adequate contract requirements and hold Aramark to their obligations.? To accept that Aramark does not provide the services it has contracted for -adequate shuttles, operation of the High Sierra Camps and much more - because they can't get the staff is absolutely ludicrous and I believe an outright lie.? Not having enough drivers, or hotel staff or whatever, means one thing only: that they are not willing to pay an adequate wage.? Meaning that Aramark is not making enough profit on certain of its enterprises, and just decides not to provide them.?

Well, guess what; they are required by their contract to provide those services, and they are not guaranteed to make a profit on them.. that's what a contract is: it is an allocation of the economic risks.? Aramark treats their concession as a license to operate what makes them enough profit to satisfy them and the hell with whatever isn't as creamy for them.? and the Pakr service has been continually bullied by them and their ilk for fifty years, ever since the Park and Curry Company was first sold to commercial companies with no ties and no interest at all in what the Park is about, other than another profit center.? The premier cash cow, BTW, in the entire National Park System.?

So we get the story that Tuolumne Meadows Lodge or the shuttle can't be operated because they can't get staff.? Oh yeah?? You can get staff to make beds at the Awhahnee, and serve $60 steaks at the Mountain Room, and make $30 pizzas at Curry village so you can Stand in line for an hour or so, but you can't get anyone to work and live in Tuolumne Meadows for the summer?? To quote one Valley restaurant worker "Service?? Are you kidding?? These people run prisons?"? And she was not speaking metaphorically.

Sorry, but when I hear it offered and accepted that "a lack of drivers forced them to skip it for the season" I just gag.