Today was a
busy day. Our job as host campers at
Greenbrier State Park is to keep our finger on the pulse of our assigned areas
and to keep the area, including the bathhouses clean. Here we do not enforce the rules; if a car is
parked on the grass we can say something like “Make sure the ranger doesn’t catch
you parking on the grass”. But we don’t
tell them to move the car. We act as ‘the
good guys’. I spent a good portion of
the day handing out notes with the camp store hours on them. I also plugged the coffee and the fact that
tomorrow will be near 80 and the ice cream cooler at the store has plenty left. Apparently there was a good run on coffee
today so maybe the camp store will give its best salesman a cut?
Between
unclear instruction from a camp office and camp maps that are not clear, people
occasionally end up in the wrong sites. That
is exactly what happened today. As we
are identifying our sites that are occupied we hit a site with no number on the
post. We look at the site next door (50),
know the numbers are decreasing, and apply some logic to figure out that the
site is a border site is #49 under the responsibility of the adjoining
loop. This logic holds until we travel
through the adjoining loop and see a site clearly mark with the number 49. The reason the site was unmarked is because
it is an auxiliary site (basically an overflow/managers site for that last
minute-no-reservation-and-no-where-else-to-go arrival). Trying to decipher the
site map in my Host Camper’s Notebook and a listing of the sites assigned to
each loop took some time but we figured out which sites were which. A call to the camp office to explain the
situation and we are told that they parked on an auxiliary site and would have
to move to their assigned location. Now
I’m not the most experienced camper but, to move because the site I mistakenly
hooked up in is reserved is one thing.
But to move me from a site that will remain empty after I’m all set up
and have a fire going makes no sense. A
call to the duty ranger has the camp office temporarily switching the auxiliary
site for one night and now everyone is happy.
Let’s face it – Rules are rules – but sometime common sense has to
dictate a practical approach to a minor error. Let’s hope the rest of the night
stays quiet.
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