If 16 people stay overnight at the hostel, chances are that 16 cars will stay overnight too.
So many cars driving up, then driving down Highway 101.
The train service stopped years ago, and bus transportation is inconvenient (with at least 2 buses to get here from San Francisco and 4 buses + a taxi ride from Portland, not to mention the difficulty you’ll have getting to the trailheads and into the heart of the forest without a car).
It’s a difficult truth to face when we’re trying, oh so trying to become more sustainable. That no matter how “green” we buy, think, preach and believe, the soot belching from the behinds of our cars as we chug hundreds of miles towards wilderness–well, the color evoked by such an image is certainly not a soothing shade of green.
To remedy this? The laws, they have to change. Our driven culture, it has to change too. But in the interim I’d like to share a link that may prove useful to a few: www.erideshare.com. It may help get you here without giving away too many emissions.
We’d like to reward your efforts: If you arrive at the Redwood Hostel by bicycle or foot, you can stay for $15 instead of the usual $20.
It ain’t much, but it’s something.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Anthropologist Margaret Mead
