Gotta Pay Before You Hike

camperforlife wrote:
I'd call it a slant as well. Here is a quote from the article that sums up the need for a fee pretty well:

"The service received "pretty much constant" emergency service calls for issues including dehydration and blisters that weekend, she said. Unprepared and injured trekkers triggered more search-and-rescue operations, park rangers said."

A fee will cut down on the unprepared weekenders who don't have a clue what they are getting into.

how is that a 'slant' unless 'slant' means the facts that resulted in the decision to require a fee? in my mind "slanting" an article means twisting or inventing facts to support a point-of-view.

Webster's defines slant this way: "to interpret or present in line with a special interest". i'd say there's little-to-no interpretation going on in that article. after a 35-yr career in public safety communications, the last 28 of which were at a major, regional 9-1-1 call center in suburban Chicago, I can attest to the general lack of preparation to meet easily expected emergency situations in the general public. lack of enough water, proper footware, reasonable expectations as to time, etc. would, or should, all be easily forseeable problems that might arise during a hike from rim-to-rim at GCNP.