Glamping.

[Cyber Cop]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...lamcamp25.html

We tented once at a place like this north of Santa Cruz. For the people roughing it in their own tents they had comfort stations with an outdoor fireplace and very posh bath/shower rooms. They brought the wood and started the fire for you. And we got access to the hot-tub in the hotel. I dug it. Tent camping was 30 bucks. They had luxury tents that ranged from 100 to maybe 300.

[Cliff Huckable]

I vomited here:

"We're just not the camping kind of people," said Gigi Bondick, 37, a former attorney whose husband works in private equity. "We don't pitch tents. We don't cook outdoors. We don't share a bathroom. It's just not going to happen. This is a kid who has never flown anything but first class or stayed anywhere other than a Four Seasons."

[AsheanMT]

Ya ya ya. that place is like two miles from my parents house. If you ask me....only a dumbass would pay ANY money to stay there. With exception to the blackfoot river (which is accsessible to the public for free!) its not an amazing destination by any means. The scenery is no more amazing than your typical low elevation river valley with no large mountains (just bumps) and a ton of super dry and heavily logged lodgepole pine. Oooooh! (not)

[TyeStick]

I vomited here:

"We're just not the camping kind of people," said Gigi Bondick, 37, a former attorney whose husband works in private equity. "We don't pitch tents. We don't cook outdoors. We don't share a bathroom. It's just not going to happen. This is a kid who has never flown anything but first class or stayed anywhere other than a Four Seasons."

Can we say arrogant!!!

[Chainsaw_Willie]

It's too late for the parents, it's the kid I feel sorry for. He's going to grow up an over-privileged spoiled pussy who'll be unable to take care of himself if Ma Nature (or some douchebag human) decides to strike down the infrastructure surrounding him. He'll never be able to empathize with anyone who's had to rough it, either.

Ya know, I could see doing something like that just to experience it, especially in a really cool locale, but to have that be my minimum standard of what I can tolerate? I don't get it, never will, no matter how much money I have.

[cj001f]

The Yosemite High Sierra camps have offered "luxury" camping since the 1910s. The Tent Cabins in the valley longer.

Not quite sure why people who know what they like and don't like are arrogant. I've heard RV owners complain about tenting

[Lexi-Bell]

The Yosemite High Sierra camps have offered "luxury" camping since the 1910s. The Tent Cabins in the valley longer.

Not quite sure why people who know what they like and don't like are arrogant. I've heard RV owners complain about tenting

I've stayed in the backcountry camps and tent cabins near Curry village, and a hot shower two days in is def a luxury, but not comparable to Glamping.

My family loves tent camping, backpacking, floating rivers, fishing, and if I had the dough I'd consider paying someone to take care of all the work so I could focus on having fun the whole time.

Want a shuttle? got it. Need someone to cook dinner so you can keep fishing? covered. Make a run to the vise/fly shop to stock up on some bunnys? Keep ice in the cooler? Make sure you've got enough beer? Built in baby-sitter? Change shitty diapers? That would not suck.

[klaxed]

granted it would not suck to go 'glamping' as it were, it just defeats the whole purpose of camping/backpacking which to escape civilization. having everything you normally have when you are at home when "camping" isn't camping.

[Dug]

Another great quote:

"It's OK to be spoiled, it really is," Gigi Bondick said. "It's nature on a silver platter."

[St. Jerry]

Gigi Bondick is not winning too many friends:

http://www.getoutdoors.com/goblog/in...Must-Die!.html

http://troutunderground.com/2007/08/...etches-openly/

and she's from (drum roll please).... Texas (of course).
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifesty...-sidebar_x.htm

And here is the skiing connection:

http://nvscracing.com/results/2007/2-4-07/j6b.htm

[RootSkier]

Paws Up, what a bunch of arrogant fucktards. Missoula County has issued multiple cease and desist orders there because they are in violation DEQ requirements, are operating without requisite permits, and in general just being douchebags and bad members of the community.

What a surprise that rich assholes go there. And Sean is right, the Blackfoot Valley is pretty fucking weak as far as Montana scenery goes. Fuck the Paws Up.

[AsheanMT]

^^^^ Perhaps we should sneak into their campsite at night and steal their shit. I know the area pretty well.