Touche', Smalma.

Even a flick at the show is at least $7.50 for a matinee. I shuck out $48 for a day of skiing, and really only ski for about 5 hours.
Park your trailer for the night.....$25 w/hookups. Drive up to the Olympic National Park, $10 for a single day pass, $20 for the season ( rising now to $30 ), take the wife to Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Applebees or Red Robin and you're in $40 if you order a drink and leave a tip.

Forty bucks seems like the cheapest entertainment in town with the reward of having something to bring home, unlike all the other pastimes mentioned above.
The more I read about our sporting management, the more I realize what goes on behind the lines. Hatcheries that are holding genetic pools of fish for reintroduction once habitat is restructured to a point that it can support fish. Shellfish facilities that serve to seed beaches within a 100 mile span. Clams and goeducks that are planted by hand to ensure our future digs. Fin clipping of salmon.....geez, with all the management, and monies that go into it, I'd say we're darn lucky that we aren't paying 3 times what they ask for.

Not that I'm saying all this management is best, but when 8,000 people are all out clamming and salmon fishing on the same day.....well, I'd think we'd exhaust the resource without it.

In a perfect world, I'd be the only person with a fishing rod and a clam shovel and there wouldn't be a need for management of the resource. In the meantime, until you all quit fishing, pay up.

Quitcher*****in or quit fishin'.

diana