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Mt Arapiles development 27-Mar-2008 At 1:28:50 PM Richard

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definately don't like the idea of an online booking system. I assume this would only work with numbered sites - i.e you book and pay on line, then get a recipt to print out with a site number - so it would be up to you to turf any one else of that site if you found it occupied? I can't see how it would work otherwise...

This may be seen as a way of ensuring camping is paid for -- so we should make sure we pay the honesty camping fee..

To a large extent, i think numbers control themeselves. When places get crowded, people tend to look for other places to go.. The general size of the campground and the number of toilets has an effect. If they build an overflow camping ground, then there is risk they are escalting the enviornmetal impact by climbers.

But 400 seems a lot of people to me. I would not want to be queing for a climb or a toliet if that many people are around. I recall one June weekend with 1 other tent..

I doubt there were 400 there at easter.So if they want to limit it to this number, they don't really need to do anything, since its not at that level now, and natural crowd avoiding behaviour means it probably never will....