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Thread: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

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    Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    Suzelle's Easter Break is winding down, so we packed a picnic lunch and went to Yosemite National Park for a last hurrah this morning.
    A friend who is a ranger in the Valley warned us that traffic is so bad right now it takes 3-4 hours just to drive around the Valley, so Happy Isles is out, Plan B then, would be the Wawona Historical park just inside the South Gate. We took a walk up to grand old Wawonuhhh I mean Big Trees Hotel to work up an appetite and low and behold, the Historic massive white wooden Adirondack chairs that graced the Great Lawn ever since the glacier receeded has been replaced by piddly, flimsy resin plastic replica-oids!
    If anyone here has had the pleasure of sitting down in a real Adirondack, you know what I mean. They are marvels of wood working, heavier than a ships anchor, and big on comfort. I've often thought of photographing one with the 8x10 as an homage but I guess that's not going to happen. The Wawona Adirondacks had been around for so long that they likely kissed the rumps of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt.

    It's an outrage!
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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    Shame, shame! Infamy! I tromped into the Roaring River backcountry patrol cabin with my buddies a few years ago for a lunch break before heading onward
    to Cloud Canyon and beyond. Because I was the old timer, I got to sit in the hand-carved rocking chair that has been there for decades. We shared a lot of
    stories and lore with the resident ranger. After that, furniture consisted of fallen logs at the "luxury resorts", and boulders above timberline. But since it
    was either raining like crazy or snowing every afternoon at higher altitude, furniture was unnecessary.

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    Re: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    John, the old adage says...if you want it done right, you need to make it yourself. Just looked through the latest Fine Woodworking and they reveal how those chairs are done....presumably for comfort. Not sure this helps....

    Les

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    Re: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    Ask hotel management and you may well find where they have the chairs stored. Never know, they might even be hoping to find a few folks to take some off their hands.
    ” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.

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    Re: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    A lass I know, a retired Navy Commander, was charged with running a physical/vocational therapy program at a hospital. One "exercise" was to build a real gosh darned Adirondack chair with all those angles. She nodded and smiled when I told her about the shenanigans at Wawona/Big Trees.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie View Post
    Ask hotel management and you may well find where they have the chairs stored. Never know, they might even be hoping to find a few folks to take some off their hands.
    Willie, IIRC these would probably be federal property. Not sure how they would dispose of them.
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    Re: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    I heard that the bears took all the old chairs to use around their camp fires at night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BradS View Post
    I heard that the bears took all the old chairs to use around their camp fires at night.
    They could certainly support a bear!
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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    Re: Insult on top of injury in Wawona...uhh...Big Trees

    The bears sit around in the evening watching the tourists being fed garbage.

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    Adirondacks gotta be green! The green ones are much more comfortable than the white ones.

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